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The storm Ciara, which has been battling Western Europe, reached Hungary yesterday evening with extreme winds, with gusts up to 90-100 km/h. Roofs, trees, and chimneys were damaged by the storm, also causing travel disruptions in train and air travel. The strongest gust of wind was measured at Kékestető, measuring 111 kilometers per hour. …

American-Hungarian filmmaker Steven Bognar has won the award for Best Documentary Feature, together with Julia Reichert at the 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles for his film ‘American Factory.’  With this win, even though the Hungarian post-Holocaust drama ‘Those Who Remained’, which has been included in the International Feature Film category, was unfortunately unable …

The Hungarian spa town of Hévíz, home to Europe’s largest thermal lake, has been voted twelfth best place to visit in this year’s European Destinations of Excellence (EDEN) ranking, the local council said on Friday. Hévíz made the list, ahead of places such as Prague and Madrid, based on a count of …

The opposition Jobbik party will work to offer solutions to “people’s everyday problems” such as low incomes, Péter Jakab, the party’s new chairman and parliamentary leader, told a press conference after a meeting of the Jobbik group in Rácalmás, in central Hungary, on Friday. Jobbik will propose that pensions are raised in a differentiated …

Several extreme-rightist groups, among them neo-nazis, will once again gather in Budapest on Saturday to commemorate what they call the ‘Day of Honor.’ The police initially banned the gathering but then a court decision made it possible. The event will take place in Városmajor, along with counter-demonstrations. They are set …

Yesterday, a group of refugees and migrants set off from Serbia and reached Hungary’s southern border at Tompa-Kelebija to go on to Western Europe. The peaceful crowd, following hours of stalemate, was transported away by Serbian authorities. The group, consisting mostly of Syrians and Afghans, was planning to head to the …

The House of Hungarian Music, built as part of the Liget Budapest Project in City Park is scheduled to open at the end of 2021. The structure of the building is to be completed within the coming months and it has already reached its highest point. The construction works in the spaces …

Three Hungarians working aboard a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan due to coronavirus are not thought to be among those infected by the virus, a foreign ministry officialsaid on Wednesday. The Hungarian embassy in Japan is making attempts to contact them by phone, state secretary Tamás Menczer said …

Hungarians who have returned home from Wuhan in China feel healthy but for the sake of safety they will remain quarantined for two weeks, the chief medical officer said on Monday. No one in Hungary is carrying coronavirus, but the seven people quarantined will undergo several tests, Cecília Müller told public news channel M1. …

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Monday called for the European Union budget to be put on a “fair footing”, adding that the current concept includes amendments that shift monies from poorer countries to richer ones. After meeting European Council President Charles Michel in Brussels, Orbán told Hungarian journalists that he foresaw a …

If necessary, the government might suspend direct flights between China and Hungary, head of the Prime Minister’s Office, Gergely Gulyás said at his regular weekly press conference on Thursday. During his press briefing, Gulyás said the most important topic of Wednesday’s cabinet meeting was the coronavirus. The government was also briefed …

Brexit has been at the center of the news almost continuously for roughly three and a half years. But now that UK’s exit is within reach, the question becomes more pertinent than before: what exactly will change for EU nationals after Brexit officially concludes and the transition period starts? The …

The government has decided to double the number of soldiers protecting Hungary’s southern border, the head of the prime minister’s office said on Thursday. The pressure of migration has increased on the border section in question, with an attempt by 80 migrants to break through on Tuesday, Gergely Gulyás said. Five of …

Legendary basketball player of Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant, one of the best players in the history of the NBA, lost his life in a helicopter crash on Sunday. The Hungarian basketball world also mourns the sudden loss of the 41-year-old icon. Hungarian player, Gergely Somogyi, who played with the 5-time champion Bryant …

Hungary’s three-month rolling average jobless rate fell to 3.3 percent in December, down 0.2 percentage point from the previous month and 0.3 percentage point lower than twelve months earlier, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Wednesday. The rate covers unemployment among those between the ages of 15 and 74. In absolute …

The new Chinese coronavirus has been spreading to more and more countries in recent days. Several cases have been confirmed in Europe as well. According to the Hungarian authorities, the country has not been affected by the virus yet, but they are well prepared for such a scenario. Meanwhile, some …

A Chinese pilot who is being treated in a Budapest hospital shows no sign of being infected with coronavirus, the Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi) said in a statement on Wednesday. The pilot was transported from Liszt Ferenc International Airport to a city hospital on Tuesday evening with a fever and was put …

A new security camera footage shows how a group of migrants tried to illegally enter Hungary at Röszke on Tuesday dawn. As we have previously reported, dozens of people made an attempt to break through the southern border fence at Röszke, on the Serbian-Hungarian border, early on Tuesday. One of the armed guards on duty even …

The spokesman of national ambulance service OMSZ thanked everyone in a Facebook video who has downloaded the new Életmentő (Lifesaver) app to their mobile phone. Pál Győrfi revealed that in only one day, more than 120,000 people downloaded the application, making it the most downloaded free mobile app in Hungary. However, …

A new infrastructure development scheme dubbed For Healthy Budapest has allocated 11 billion forints (EUR 33m) for the architectural and engineering plans to build and revamp hospital buildings, the human resources minister said on Friday. The planning contracts for buildings with a total floor space of 381,498 square metres were signed at …

More and more airports around the world are taking preventative safety measures against the rapidly spreading coronavirus in China, but for now, Hungarian authorities don’t think these actions are necessary at Budapest Airport (Liszt Ferenc International). Also, at a press conference, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó emphasized there have been no reports of …

The European People’s Party is likely to postpone its decision on Fidesz’s membership. However, given the events of recent weeks, Orbán’s party will probably leave, nonetheless. Many believe that with the departure of the Hungarian ruling party, several other political groups will join them, costing many seats for the EPP. …

The recovery of the wreck of legendary Hungarian-made steamship ‘Szőke Tisza,’ (Blonde Tisza) began in Tápé Harbor near Szeged on Thursday morning. The largest paddle-wheel steamship built in Hungary sank back in 2012. photo: MTI/Ujvári Sándor Tamás Heizler, Managing Director of MA-HARD Vízépítő Kft., the company that carries out the lifting, …

What is being touted as the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell-powered aircraft that could be made suitable for carrying passengers has been unveiled at Jakabszállás airport in central Hungary. The Hungarian-American development was presented in the attendance of Minister of Innovation and Technology László Palkovics, who told a news conference that the …

Innovation and Technology Minister László Palkovics submitted the government’s energy and climate protection strategies to parliament’s sustainable development committee on Tuesday. Presenting the document, Palkovics said that Hungary would need funds totalling 50,000 billion forints (EUR 150bn) to make its economy carbon-free by 2050, thus meeting the European Union’s requirements of climate …

The Hungarian Medical Chamber (MOK) has come up with a proposal urging for a significant salary raise of healthcare workers, and the criminalization for accepting and receiving tips for treatments. According to the government, the proposal is not clear enough and doctors should have a “broad consensus” on the subject …

The Budapest Municipal Court on Tuesday held another hearing in the case of Hassan F., a Syrian national charged with terrorism and mass murder, arrested at Budapest’s international airport in December 2018. Hassan F. was arrested when he presented false documents at the airport for himself and a woman in his company, and was …

Without the use of nuclear energy, Europe will not be able to achieve its objective of climate neutrality by 2050, Hungary’s foreign minister said in Prague on Tuesday. The European Union must therefore end its practice of negative discrimination of nuclear energy, Péter Szijjártó told the 6th Central and Eastern Europe Nuclear …

The policies pursued by Hungary over the past ten years have demonstrated that migration is not a necessity for a successful economic policy, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at an OECD ministerial meeting in Paris on Friday. In his address to the session centred on the integration of immigrants, Szijjártó warned against …

Hate should not be commemorated with more hatred but with dignity, Slomó Köves, the head rabbi of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation (EMIH), said on Friday at a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Jewish ghetto in Budapest. “The question is not who our parents were, …