The more successful Hungarian companies are abroad – anywhere in the world, but primarily in the Carpathian Basin – the stronger the Hungarian economy will be, Levente Magyar, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said on Thursday in the Transylvanian village of Comuna Moldovenești (in Hungarian: Várfalva), at the inauguration […]
1,002,200 people in Romania declared themselves as Hungarians in this year's census, making the Hungarian minority 6% of the population who answered the question, the Romanian National Institute of Statistics is quoted by the Hungarian state news agency MTI. In the previous census, in 2011, 1,227,623 people declared themselves as Hungarians – a drop of […]
"It’s official! Richard Rapport will play for Romania 🇷🇴 starting today! Welcome to our team!" That is how the Romanian Chess Federation has announced the top Hungarian chess player, Richárd Rapport changing nationality and playing for Romania in the future. Regarding the background of the case, the popular Hungarian news site, telex.hu reports that the […]
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 […]
Hungary's national football side lost 3-0 away to Romania in Europe's qualifying Group D of the 2014 football World Cup. This defeat significantly reduces Hungarian chances to finish at least second in the group, a place in the play-off stage.
Hungary and Romania are keen to continue and strengthen bilateral partnership cooperation. That is according to Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi who met with his Romanian counterpart Titus Corlatean in Budapest this Monday.
A Hungarian Foreign Ministry official says Romania and Hungary should start discussing - as soon as possible - the situation on recent measures by the Bucharest government which hurt the interests of the ethnic Hungarian minority.
Romania supports a new Hungarian law that will allow easier acquisition of citizenship for ethnic Hungarians in neighboring countries. The law will allow over 2.5 million people to become Hungarian citizens without requiring them to live in Hungary.
Romania and Hungary want to jointly host the 2020 or 2024 UEFA European Football Championship. Talks at government level will start soon in both countries.
Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán and the presidents of three other countries concerned have signed an agreement on the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romanian Interconnector (AGRI) project which involves the transporting of Azeri natural gas through Georgia and Romania to Central Europe.
