Alexandra Béni
Hungary close to bridging health-care pay gap to V4 partners
Budapest, September 28 (MTI) – Recent and new wage hikes in the health-care sector will help Hungary close the pay gap with the other Visegrad Group countries, the state secretary for health care said on Wednesday. The base salary of…
President sends condolences over Peres death
Budapest, September 28 (MTI) – President János Áder sent condolences to the president and people of Israel over the death of former prime minister and president, Nobel peace prize laureate Shimon Peres, on Wednesday. Áder wrote in his letter to…
Fidesz: EU still “forcing” mandatory migrant quota
Budapest, September 28 (MTI) – The European Union “keeps forcing” its plans for mandatory resettlement migrant quotas, Gergely Gulyás, ruling Fidesz’s deputy group leader, told a press conference on Wednesday, in response to a call from Brussels to speed up…
LMP: Hungarian farmland should be exempted from free movement of capital rules
Brussels, September 28 (MTI) – Hungarian farmland should stay in domestic ownership and it should be exempted from rules on the free movement of capital, LMP leaders said on Wednesday. LMP co-leaders Bernadett Szél and Ákos Hadházy were in Brussels…
Liberals blame TEK for terrorists entering Hungary in 2015
Budapest, September 28 (MTI) – The Hungarian Liberal Party has blamed the ability of terrorists involved in the Paris and Brussels attacks to enter and stay in Hungary last year on counter-terrorism unit TEK’s “failure” to detect and identify them…
DK complains to OLAF about referendum campaign leaflets
Budapest, September 28 (MTI) – The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) has contacted the European Commission’s anti-fraud office (OLAF) to complain about leaflets “blackmailing” local residents to vote ‘no’ at the referendum on European Union migrant quotas by suggesting that otherwise…
Opposition speaks out against Budapest Olympic bid
Budapest, September 28 (MTI) – The opposition Socialist and LMP parties on Wednesday reiterated their position on Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics, saying that staging the Games was against the capital’s interest. Socialist Budapest deputy Csaba Horváth told…
Budapest enters twin city agreement with Sarajevo
Budapest, September 28 (MTI) – The city of Budapest is entering a twin city agreement with Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after a unanimous decision by the Budapest general assembly on Wednesday. Under the agreement, the two cities…
A Hungarian’s average day on a spectacular diagram
According to origo.hu, the Central Statistical Office’s time scale presents an average day in the lives of Hungarians by activities on a single diagram, which contains more than 166 thousand elements. The data for the spectacular diagram was submitted in…
Balog: European Roma must remain on agenda
Berlin, September 28 (MTI) – The issue of European Roma must not be taken off the agenda, Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog told an event celebrating the 70th birthday of Romani Rose, head of the Central Council of German Sinti…