The Hungarian government has decided to extend the price restrictions on fuel and certain food products until July 1, PM Viktor Orbán announced this Wednesday. He said in a video on social media that the government had discussed the issue of fuel and food prices at its meeting on Wednesday. He stressed that prices are […]

Since Friday last week, 3,325 new cases of the new coronavirus infection have been confirmed in Hungary, with 53 fatalities over this period, according to the related government website koronavirus.gov.hu. The new cases bring the total number of identified infections to 1,894,278 since the beginning of the outbreak, while with the 53 patients, most of […]

The ‘March of the Living’ in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is also held in Budapest every year. This year's parade in the Hungarian capital took place on Sunday afternoon. Following two years of hiatus due to the new corovirus pandemic, thousands of people marched in the city on Holocaust memorial day to […]

Starting out from the City Park, thousands of people cycled through the Hungarian capital on Saturday afternoon, with the traditional parade the aim of which, according to organizers and participants, was campaigning for more and safer cycle lanes. Following a tradition that started in 2004, participants stood up for cycling improvements. The event was secured […]

An aid shipment by the Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) including food, hygiene products and generators has reached Bucha in Ukraine, the organization’s director said on Friday. László Lehel, speaking from the Ukranian town of Zaporizhzhia, told state-run Hungarian Radio that the organization had been working in Transcarpathia, the Ukrainian region with substantial ethnic Hungarian population, […]

Mexicans, Argentinians, Peruvians, Colombians and Chileans, for example, are more interested in what is happening in the country under attack than Hungarians, according to an international survey by Ipsos. Compared with the data from the countries surveyed, a much higher proportion of our fellow countrymen (28 percentage points higher than the international average) think that […]

The National Residential Property Price Index of Duna House representing the overall average closed at a record high 231 points nominal again in Hungary in the first quarter of this year. In real terms, the increase was slower and the index currently stands at 144 points, compared to the previous 135, according to the latest […]

29 mostly elderly, chronic patients died, bringing the official total number of deaths related to the new coronavirus infection over the past 24 hours in Hungary to 46,000, as reported by the related government website koronavirus.gov.hu. In comparison, neighboring Austria (where population is about 90% of Hungary and where COVID-19 testing is extensive) has registered […]

Since Thursday last week, 4,978 new cases of new coronavirus infection have been confirmed in Hungary and 106 people have died, according to the government website koronavirus.gov.hu. This brings the total number of identified infections since the beginning of the outbreak to 1,884,458, while the number of people who have died from coronavirus infection has […]

Avian influenza has been detected at a farm in southern Hungary, food safety authority NÉBIH said on its website. The virus was detected at a goose farm in Bács-Kiskun County. The 3,500 birds have been culled, the state news agency MTI reports. The laboratory of the National Food Chain Safety Office ( NÉBIH ) has […]

2,740 new infections have been confirmed in the past 24 hours in Hungary, bringing the total number of identified infections since the beginning of the epidemic to 1,876,946, according to the government portal koronavirus.gov.hu. The deaths of 26 patients, most of them elderly and chronic, bring the official total number of fatalities related to the […]

The much-loved institution of Budapest’s history, the former ‘Belvárosi Kávéház’ (‘Downton Café’), returns to Budapest’s  social life after being asleep for decades as Matild Café & Cabaret on May 19 this year. After a long-detailed renovation period, the 300-seater venue will await guests in Matild Palace as the reimagination of the café originally opened in […]

42 % of Hungarians who work from home at least one day a week are planning to renovate their homes to make their environment more suitable for telecommuting, and 48 % have already made some improvements for this purpose, according to a Hungarian survey sent to the state news agency MTI on Monday. The representative […]

4,657 new infections have been confirmed and 60 patients have died in Hungary in the past three days, that is, since Friday last week, bringing the total number of deaths to 45,781, according to the related government website koronavirus.gov.hu. The number of active infections has fallen to 95,067. 1,755 patients with coronavirus are hospitalized, 48 […]

The perception of the European Union is basically positive both in the EU and in Hungary. Almost half of people in Hungary have a positive opinion of the EU, and just over one in seven have a negative opinion, according to the latest findings by Eurobarometer that regularly conducts public opinion surveys on behalf of […]