More commercial real estate portfolios are changing hands than ever before as international investors rush to obtain first class assets in Europe and Budapest is getting in on the trend.

Local shops are still top choice for consumers despite online and out-of-town competition. In smaller towns people do their shopping in small shops rather then big centers.

Technology has changed photography technically, but it doesn’t change my way of ‘seeing’. Photojournalism is not dead”, says Tamás Révész, who has organized The World Press Photo exhibition in Budapest.

The Prime Ministers of the Visegrád Group, met in Prague this Friday for an extraordinary V4 summit on migration and expressed “profound sadness over the loss of lives of thousands of people in the context of the current migration situation in Europe.”

Budapest’s Capa Center presents a selection of photographs by Robert Capa, who is one of the world’s most recognized war photojournalists. Due to the great number of visitors, the exhibition has been extended by October 31, 2015.

In 1995, SPAR established a new category of commercial outlet in Hungary by opening its first Interpar hypermarket in the country. 20 years ago, it was great novelty here to have a shopping center with department store, bank, travel agency and restaurant.

János Lázár, the minister in charge of the office of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has blamed Germany for "an irresponsible statement" on the part of Germany that made immigrants move into Hungary, trying to travel on to Germany.

As expected, Erste Group is going to acquire the consumer business (retail banking and cards business) of Citibank Europe Plc. in Hungary. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals, which are expected by the end of 2015, portfolio.hu reports.

Close to 1.2 million students started a new year in some 2,200 Hungarian elementary and secondary schools (today. The number of those enrolling in the first year of elementary school is 74,121 – some four thousand less than last year.

Hungary is in charge of the protection of the airspace of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for a period of four months as of 1 September as part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission. Hungary took over the mission at the Siauliai Air Base in Lithuania from Norway and Italy.

The 15th Smart Times international car meeting was held this Friday and Saturday in and around Budapest. The aim of these gatherings s to forge together the Smart community and establish relationship with Smart fans from all around the world.

Gellért Mester made good use of his lunch-break and helped his football team win a match in the Somogy county championship recently. He scored goals in the first half before going back to work in a restaurant in Siófok at Lake Balaton in Western Hungary.

Dozens of migrants (they could number as many 50) were found dead in a truck with temporary Hungarian license plate parked along the A4 motorway in Austria, some 30 kilometers from the Hungarian border on Thursday. Hungary will help in the investigation.

A brief disturbance broke out among migrants entering Hungary at a refugee camp near the village of Röszke on the Hungarian side of the border with Serbia on Wednesday, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported. Police used tear gas to restore order.

Until 2020, the EU made available HUF 70bn for cooperation and support projects within the Danube region. On August 20, 2015 the European Commission adopted the Danube Transnational Program elaborated jointly by the 14 countries of the Danube basin.