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 […]
The Hungarian Drone Coalition, in cooperation with HungaroControl and the Neumann Technology Platform, hosts the 4th Drone Summit and Expo at the Hungexpo fairgrounds in the Hungarian capital. The presentations at the conference aimed, among other things, to raise awareness of the importance– and to highlight the indispensable role – of technological developments in the […]
Tatabánya-based Motor-Classic Plc., a manufacturer of precision metal parts and restoration of veteran cars, is expanding its plant with a new production hall and a modern machining center. According to marketing director Viktor Tamás, the company is expanding its 5,000-square-meter production area with a new 2,000-square-meter hall, which will house a five-axis machining machine and […]
Bread prices in the EU rose by an average of 18% on an annual basis in August this year, significantly up on the 2.7% increase recorded in the same period in 2021 compared to the same period the year before, the business news site napi.hu reports based on information from Eurostat. Hungary is the absolute […]
The Hungarian government has decided to extend the gasoline and food price freeze, the Minister heading the Prime Minister's Office, Gergely announced at the Government Info in Budapest on Saturday afternoon. According to the minister, the war and the sanctions in response response had led to a brutal rise in energy prices, which in turn […]
Aggregated data published on the related government website koronavirus.gov.hu show that 42 patients died over the past week. They were mostly elderly and chronic patients, bringing the official total number of deaths as a result of the new coronavirus pandemic to 47,409. A total of 11,596 new infections were confirmed last week, bringing the total […]
A hundred kilogram Soviet aerial bomb was defused in front of the Várkert Bazaar by the 1st Hungarian Army Bomb Disposal and Warfare Regiment this Monday, the Hungarian Armed Foces website honvedelem.hu reports. Bomb disposal divers set up anchorage points on an aerial bomb found near the boat station at Várkert Bazaar, and then lifted […]
The Budapest Stock Exchange's (BSE) share index fell this week, with the BUX closing at 40,910.81 points on Friday, down 1,030.46 points, 2.46% lower than the previous week, the Hungarian state news agency MTI reported Sunday morning along with a brief analysis. The weekly turnover on the stock market was HUF 33.26 billion, down from […]
