The Switzerland-based pharmaceutical company Roche is going to increase the number of its collaborators in positions creating high added value in its service center located in the Hungarian capital. The 250 new employees will provide support to the subsidiaries of Roche in 60 countries in the fields of finance, purchasing, HR and information technology. Roche […]
It could be Hungarian guests who boost tourism, which has seen a severe decline due to the epidemic. According to a recent survey, up to a million Hungarian tourists can visit the capital, but Lake Balaton can also be a popular destination. 71.7% of Hungarians plan to travel in 2021 in the event of the […]
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony has approved the capital city’s new climate strategy, and energy and climate action plan, which sets the goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by at least 40% by 2030 against 2015 levels, the Hungarian state news agency MTI reports. He also approved Budapest’s green infrastructure development and sustainability action plan, according […]
As part of the measures related to the coronavirus epidemic, to protect drivers in the capital, the front door on buses and trolleybuses will not be opened from Monday, March 29, and the front of vehicles will be closed with a cordon. From Monday, March 29, the first door may not be used on buses […]
Vodafone is the first among domestic service providers to enable 5G connection to its customers in the majority of the residential areas of Budapest: 5G has been connected to more than 200 base stations in the capital and in the surrounding metropolitan area. Vodafone has also announced that by the end of the first quarter […]
Both the national and the Budapest heat record was broken this Friday. According to the National Meteorological Service, it was really warm, almost corresponding to the end of May and the beginning of June. Beforehand, the capital's heat record of February 26 was 18.9 degrees Celsius recorded in 2008. This time, it was now more […]
Hungarian integrated architecture and building services provider DVM group started the construction works of Drechsler Palace in January 2021 at 25 Andrássy Avenue, Budapest. The building is planned to be unveiled as a hotel in 2022. The monument building also known as the one once housing the Pension Fund of the Hungarian State Railways and […]
The Budapest Research Forum, which comprises the real estate firms CBRE, Colliers International, Cushman & Wakefield, ESTON International, JLL and Robertson Hungary, has published its Q4 2020 office market summary. In the fourth quarter of 2020, 38,850 sqm of new office space was delivered to the Budapest office market in four schemes. Váci Greens E […]
This past Sunday, Qatar Airways celebrated ten years of linking the Hungarian capital with the capital city of Qatar, Doha and the Qatar Airways global network. Ir was on January 17, 2011, that the inaugural flight, an Airbus A320 carrying VIP guests touched down in Budapest and was greeted with a traditional water-cannon salute (see […]
It was on this day 147 years ago (November 17, 1873) that Pest, Buda Óbuda and the Margaret Island on the River Danube were officially united under the name Budapest. The idea of uniting the three cities and towns dates back to 1849. In that year, Interior Minister Bertalan Szemere ordered the unification of the […]
A mural evoking Berlin has been painted in German-Hungarian cooperation on a firewall in downtown Budapest to mark the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Germany. The mural at Akácfa Street 27 in District 7 depicts three figures at the Berlin Wall in clothes painted with the colors of the German national flag by the […]
House prices fell by 5.6% in the second quarter of the Hungarian capital. Consequently, prices fell by some 2.5% compared to a year earlier, the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) reports. According to the latest MNB house price index data, house prices in Budapest declined year on year in nominal terms, which has been unprecedented […]
The most interesting moments of the last two hundred years of shipping in the capital are presented at the new, 'Budapest on the Danube. Pictures from the 200 years of shipping in Budapest' exhibition at the Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport. In the summer of 1820, Carolina, the first steamer suitable for passenger […]
This Thursday evening, the Hungarian capital hosts the 2020 soccer European Super Cup final between Champions League winner Bayern Munich of Germany and the winner of the European League, FC Seville from Spain. Qatar Airways is a Platinum Sponsor of the now six-time European champions (third in the overall rankings behind Real Madrid' s 13 and […]
With a 5,6-kilometer section inaugurated, the bicycle path has been completed between Budapest and Szentendre, a town of historical architecture and popular tourist destination north of the capital. Most of the section, 3,380 meters are new cycle path, 1230 meters were repaired and the existing cycle path was upgraded. In addition, a bicycle bridge and […]
