The heat has peaked and the national daily heat record has been broken in Hungary, the National Meteorological Service said this Thursday. As they wrote, the maximum temperatures were between 33 and 40 degrees Celsius, with only a few stations measuring temperatures below 35 degrees. Until now, the daily temperature record was 39.3 degrees Celsius […]
The Hungarian national football (soccer) team lost 0-3 to Portugal in the opening match of Group F at the European Championship at the Puskás Arena in Budapest this Tuesday. As expected Portugal - with superstar Cristiano Ronaldo in the starting line-up - dominated the first half with the Hungarian side mostly defending, rarely being able […]
The oldest person in Hungary, Veronika Zsilinszki, died this week at the age of 113, the national news site telex.hu reports quoting the website of the southern Hungarian town of Baja. Veronika Zsilinszki was born on 4 February 1908 in Kevevara, Vojvodina (then Austria-Hungary, now Serbia), from where she moved to the town of Baja […]
Companies and brands like Tungsram, MOL or OTP have long been known internationally. As to how much these and other similar firms have enhanced the image of the ‘Hungarian’ brand, Diplomacy&Trade talks to the State Secretary for Financial Affairs at the Hungarian Ministry of Finance, Gábor Gion who also shares his thoughts on the Hungarian […]
The Hungarian women's water polo team has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics by beating host nation Italy 13-10 this Saturday at the Olympic qualification tournament in Trieste. In the semifinal of the competition organized by the international aquatics federation FINA, the Hungarians took a 3-0 lead early in the match and later increased it to […]
The current curfew and strict measures will remain in place until January 11, which means that there will still be a curfew between 8 pm and 5 am, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán announced this Monday. The prime minister added that it will only be decided on December 21 whether Christmas Eve can be an exception […]
There are at least two things that I have learned since I started my life as a diplomat 35 years ago. First, that time flies. Even if three or four years may seem as an eternity when you arrive to your new posting, there are so many things in your work that will absorb you […]
The Monostor Bridge built between Komárom and Komárno, mainly from European Union funds, has been inaugurated in the presence of the two countries' prime ministers. "This inauguration, too, stands as proof of the fact that rather than dividing them, the Danube connects Hungarians and Slovaks together," Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said. His Slovak counterpart, Igor […]
The second motorway border crossing between Hungary and Romania was handed over on Friday in the presence of the Hungarian and Romanian Foreign Ministers and the Romanian Minister of Transport. The Nagykereki-Bors II. motorway border crossing connects the Hungarian M4 motorway with the five-kilometer section of the Romanian A3 motorway. On the Hungarian side, a […]
In the first half of this year, 25.3% fewer new cars were sold in Hungary than in the same period last year. This figure is the most favorable in the Central and Eastern European region, with the decline in the surrounding countries typically being above 30%. In addition to Hungary, it was only the Czech […]
In the first half of 2020, the number of births was 5.5% more and that of deaths 5.5% less in Hungary than in the corresponding period of 2019 according to preliminary data. As a result, the natural decrease declined by 23% or 6,024 compared to the first half of 2019, According to data by the […]
During today's Operational Group press conference, Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller said the epidemic curve is still pointing downwards. There are currently 483 patients hospitalized with the coronavirus. According to official figures, the number of confirmed people infected with the coronavirus in Hungary now stands at 3,678. There are 11,688 people in compulsory home quarantine, […]
The seven-kilometer long Zselic narrow gauge railway in south-central Hungary has begun operation this week-end. It is one of several such railways that has re-started service after most of the restrictions introduced due to the Covid-19 situation were lifted in the countryside earlier this month. Built in 1901, the railway line makes it possible to […]
Hungarian airlines will receive a tax credit, according to the Hungarian Gazette published Friday night. According to this, the tax credit is available to companies with at least 10 employees whose main activity is one of the following: manufacture of aircraft and spacecraft; aircraft, spaceship repair; or air passenger transport - and sales fell by […]
Partial results of a nationally representative coronavirus screening test show that there are 2.4 infected people per ten thousand people, which means a maximum of 7,230 people infected if the results are projected to the total population. So far, 46.5% of the nearly 18,000 people to be tested in the study have been screened by […]
