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“Wanna split a cab?” could become a more popular end-of-evening question when new regulations stipulating minimum fares come into force in September. Taxis in the capital will also have to […]
Last year showed a “considerable escalation” in global antisemitism against Jewish individuals, sites and private property, according to a report published by Israel’s Tel Aviv University Kantor Centre for the […]
Prosecutors in Slovakia are pressing for the extradition of Hungarian war crimes suspect László Csatáry. The 98-year-old former police commander was arrested in Budapest last summer on suspicion of complicity […]
The European Commission should release Hungary from its Excessive Deficit Procedure this year, provided it looks “only at the figures”, an Economy Ministry official said on Tuesday. State secretary Zoltan […]
The government needs the people to help defeat foreign-owned utilities firms that want to scotch a plan to lower bills, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on state-owned Kossuth Radio last […]
Echo TV pundit Ferenc Szaniszló announced on Wednesday that he planned to hand back the Tancsics Prize, a top state award for journalism, at the request of Human Resources Minister […]
There has been a barrage of English-language communications from the government since this case put Hungary back on the news radar. The official line on the Fourth Amendment to Hungary’s […]
The amendments to the Hungarian constitution approved by parliament in Budapest on March 11 2013 “raise concerns with respect to the principle of the rule of law, EU law and […]
Hungary was the latest member of the European Union to admit to prepared beef dishes tainted with horsemeat on Monday in a food scandal that is reaching across the continent […]
Following the final investment decision being approved for the South Stream gas pipeline from Russia, deputy chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee Alexander Medvedev and CEO of Hungarian state-owned power […]
