11, mostly elderly, chronic patients died last week (up from six in the previous week), bringing the official total number of deaths in this country to 48,762, the government's Coronavirus Press Center said on Wednesday. 878 new infections were confirmed in the past week (slightly down from the previous week), bringing the total number of […]
All three major groups of shops – grocery, non-food and petrol – and even online sales fell in January this year in Hungary. The volume of sales in retail trade decreased by 3.9% according to raw data and by 4.5% when adjusted for calendar effects compared to the same period of the previous year, the […]
A new activity will be added to the responsibilities of the operator of Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport from the fall: the management company Budapest Airport will establish its own industrial fire service, a fire brigade of its own staff with a large headcount and one of the best-equipped airport fire bases in Europe. As […]
The traditional Jelly Festival is held again this year in the northeastern Hungarian city of Miskolc between March 3 and 5. The even was canceled in 2020 and 2021 to the new coronavirus epidemic. This year's jelly festival began with a spectacular parade and opening ceremony on Friday afternoon and will end on Sunday afternoon […]
Last September, the ‘For The Neighbors Of Budapest Airport Foundation’, with the support of Budapest Airport, launched the largest ever noise protection program which offers the most noise abatement solutions for residents, to a value of HUF 1.2 billion over three years. The aim of the program is to reduce noise burdens for people living […]
957 new infections were confirmed in the past week (867 recorded in the previous week), bringing the total number of identified infections to 2,195,926 since the start of the outbreak, the government's Coronavirus Press Center said on Wednesday. Six, mostly elderly, chronic patients died last week (down from seven in the previous week), bringing the […]
Unregulated storage of small boats on Lake Balaton is leading to more and more conflicts; Gábor Lombár, the president of the Balaton Association of local authorities wants to see a change in the law. The president pointed out that according to the Central Transdanubian Water Management Directorate (KDTVÍZIG), the Lake Balaton basin manager, 32 underwater […]
On Friday, 5,003 people entered Hungary at the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, while 6,924 of those entering at the Romanian-Hungarian border said they had come from Ukraine, the National Police Headquarters (ORFK) said. Of those who entered, police issued 69 people with temporary residence permits valid for 30 days. They will have to go to the office […]
18% of Hungarian motorists would like to buy an electric or hybrid vehicle within one or two years, compared to 16% last year, according to a representative survey conducted by Generali Insurance in January, the results of which were published by the company this Thursday. According to the statement, those who do not intend to […]
The Hungarian real estate market plunged to a new low in January 2023, after stagnating in November and December. The 5,853 sales estimated by Duna House nationwide represented the weakest start to the year in 10 years: the last time there were fewer transactions in January was back in 2013, the property agency Duna House […]
Seven, mostly elderly, chronic patients died last week as a result of the new coronavirus (down from 31 in the previous week), bringing the official total number of deaths in this country to 48,745, the government's Coronavirus Press Center said on Wednesday. 867 new infections were confirmed in the past week (about a third more […]
The 35th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) will be held in the southeastern Hungarian city of Szeged from August 28 with the participation of about a hundred countries. This is the second time after 1996 that Hungary hosts the prestigious scientific competition. According to an announcement Deputy State Secretary for Technology in the Ministry of […]
CFOs of Central European companies expect an average GDP growth of 0.33% this year compared to 2.3% in 2022, close to the 0.25% expected in 2021 during the coronavirus epidemic, the auditing firm Deloitte said based on a recent survey. According to the statement, more than half of those surveyed in Hungary, 56%, expect the […]
The used car market was buoyant at the beginning of the year; in January, almost 69,000 cars changed hands, 3.7% more than a year earlier, the JóAutók.hu [‘Good Cars’] used car market portal said in its analysis on Monday, citing DataHouse's newly published preliminary data. It expects that in 2023, the number of transactions on […]
Initial studies and surveys have found thermal water beneath Procter & Gamble's plant in Csömör, just outside Budapest, and thanks to the company's fortunate geographic location, it has embarked on a long-term planning process in collaboration with the Csömör Municipality to replace its entire natural gas consumption with geothermal energy. "In the current energy market […]
