This year, 130 exhibitors, more than 40 foreign authors and 150 programs await the public at the Festival from this Thursday until October 2 at the National Dance Theater and the Europa Pont, next to the Millenáris event center. After a two-year hiatus, the Budapest International Book Festival will reopen, said poet and writer Krisztina […]
The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) will issue a collector coin of HUF 2,000 called ‘Király kis Miklós’ (King Little Cause) on writer Elek Benedek’s birthday, on the day of Hungarian folk tales. This collector coin is the second piece of the seven-piece non-ferrous metal collector coin series, launched last year, whose dedicated objective is […]
'Brave Warrior 2022', a large-scale multinational exercise, involving thousands of allied troops in the execution of joint tasks, takes place in the second half of September in Hungary. This Thursday, the participating troops were visited by the Hungarian and Croatian ministers of defense. It is a multinational (Hungarian, Croatian, Slovakian, Italian and American) complex combat […]
Innovariant Ltd. has expanded the capacity of its printing plant in Algyő, SE Hungary, with HUF 448 million, most of which is EU support, the company informed the state news agency MTI. According to the statement, Innovariant Ltd. was founded in 1996 in nearby Szeged and moved its headquarters to Algyő in 2011. Its main […]
Both the number of Hungarians infected with the new coronavirus and that of those dying as a result of this infection decreased in the past seven days, according to a weekly summary published by the related government website koronavirus.gov.hu. In the past week, 46 people died (two fewer than in the previous week), mostly elderly […]
The majority of Hungarians admit to consciously buying food, paying attention to the expiry date of food, yet they produce 65 kilograms of food waste annually, resulting in an annual loss of HUF 45,000, the Hungarian Food Bank Association told the state news agency MTI on Monday. According to the statement, the association, the National […]
Organized as part of the Budapest Running Festival, the 17th NATO Run in Budapest took place this Saturday. This time, the 10-kilometer route was exclusively on the Buda side, along the embankment of the River Danube, with the start and finish at the Vérmező park in the Hungarian capital's District I. The running race was […]
The European Commission has published the 2022 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard. According to the document, Hungary continues to be in the lowest, 'Emerging Innovators' category along with Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. The document says that compared to 2021, innovation performance in 2022 has improved for 19 Member States, and declined […]
7,276 people entered Hungary on Friday, at the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, while 4,989 of those entering at the Romanian-Hungarian border the same day said they had come from Ukraine, the National Police Headquarters (ORFK) said. Of those who entered, police issued 254 people with temporary residence permits valid for 30 days. They will have to go […]
Qatar Airways, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2022, has been named ‘Airline of the Year’ by the international air transport rating organization, Skytrax, for an unprecedented seventh time (in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022). Qatar Airways also took home three additional awards including World’s Best Business Class, World’s Best Business Class […]
The real estate market has also started to reorganize in the premium segment: while the share of foreign investors has decreased in the capital and the agglomeration, luxury properties on Lake Balaton are still attractive to buyers from abroad, according to an analysis by the real estate agency Duna House. According to the company, demand […]
Two more cases of monkeypox were confirmed in the laboratory of the National Public Health Center (NNK) last week, bringing the total number of cases diagnosed in Hungary to 77. The NNK told MTI on Thursday that the new cases – a 25-year-old man and a 38-year-old man – are in isolation at home, and […]
AutoWallis Group is opening up to online sales and the western region, the car company may acquire the company operating the JóAutók.hu and Autó-Licit.hu portals, and will enter the Austrian market with its SsangYong wholesale business, the CEO of AutoWallis Group said at a background meeting in Budapest on Wednesday. Gábor Ormosy said that the […]
Budapest Nyugati [‘Western’] Railway Station has been selected as part the ‘Treasures of European Film Culture’, the European Film Academy has announced. Treasures of European Film Culture is a growing list of places of a symbolic nature for European cinema, places of historical value that need to be maintained and protected not just now but […]
Both the number of Hungarians infected with the new coronavirus and that of those dying as a result of this infection are increasing, according to a summary published by the related government website koronavirus.gov.hu about the past seven days. In the past week, 48 people died, mostly elderly and chronically ill – six more than […]
