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Hungary UN envoy comments on UN world meeting on migration
Budapest, November 12 (MTI) – It is in nobody’s interest that local residents should flee their homes and leave complete regions or even countries vacated while exporting their knowledge and skills to some other part of the world, Hungary’s permanent…
Polt complains to supreme court over Biszku ruling
Budapest, November 12 (MTI) – Chief Prosecutor Peter Polt has turned to the Kuria, Hungary’s supreme court, over the case of Bela Biszku, whose trial was repeated under a June court ruling, the daily Magyar Hirlap reported. Polt has filed…
Hungarian edition of Kissinger’s latest title World Order presented in Budapest
Budapest (MTI) – The Hungarian edition of the latest book “World Order” by former US secretary of state and chief national security advisor Henry Kissinger was presented in Budapest on Wednesday. At the book release, Zsolt Nemeth, chairman of parliament’s…
Hungary contributes to Africa migration fund
Budapest (MTI) – Hungary will contribute 189 million forints (EUR 61,000) to the European Union’s emergency trust fund for Africa, the official Hungarian Gazette reported on Wednesday. According to a government decree published in the Gazette, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto…
MOL to raise price of petrol
Budapest (MTI) – Hungarian oil and gas company MOL will raise its wholesale price of petrol by 2 forints per litre on Friday, industry insiders told MTI. Petrol prices at the pump will rise to about 343 forints (EUR 1.10)…
1956 memorial committee meets for first time
Budapest (MTI) – The 60th anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution and freedom fight will have to be commemorated “adequately”, Human Resources Minister Zoltan Balog told the first meeting of a memorial committee set up to manage commemorative events, on…
The longest trams on the roads of Budapest from next spring
According maszol.ro the longest tram in the world was presented in Budapest last Friday. It will start its circulation next spring on the line of tram N°1. Trammies are practicing the conduction of the CAF-trains on a simulator. The new…
State secretary holds talks with Ukrainian officials on education
Uzhhorod, Ukraine (MTI) – Judit Bertalan Czunyi, Hungary’s state secretary of public education, held talks with senior officials of western Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region inhabited by many ethnic Hungarians, in Uzhhorod (Ungvar) on Wednesday. Meeting regional governor Hennadiy Moskal, Czunyi expressed…
President opens St Martin memorial year
Budapest (MTI) – The message of the St Martin memorial year is that Hungary’s rich intellectual heritage has more than just cultural value and also serves as a moral guide, President Janos Ader said at the opening of the memorial…
National security committee concludes meeting on Szazadveg case with conflict of opinion
Budapest (MTI) – Parliament’s national security committee concluded a discussion about the case of Szazadveg, a think tank accused of handling state secrets, with a conflict in the opinions of party representatives at its meeting on Wednesday. The case was…