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28th March, 2025
Tisza volunteers attacked again
Tisza volunteers working for the party’s national consultation campaign were attacked in Tök by a “Fidesz sympathiser”, according to Tisza leader Péter Magyar.
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28th March, 2025
State may sell stake in MBH bank
The state is considering selling its stake in MBH bank, with bank officials in talks with Citigroup advisors over a potential share transaction, Bloomberg reports, citing insider sources.
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27th March, 2025
Foot-and-mouth disease spreads to cattle farm
The foot-and-mouth disease continues to spread in northwest Hungary, with a new case detected at a cattle farm in Levél, a village in Győr-Moson-Sopron county.
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27th March, 2025
Village shops to get Ft 3mn subsidy
The government will provide up to Ft 3 million in grants for shops operating in villages with less than 2,000 inhabitants, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced on Facebook after Wednesday’s cabinet meeting,
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26th March, 2025
IKEA makes big changes at Soroksár store
IKEA’s store in Soroksár in south Budapest is set to become what the owner deems “the world’s largest fulfilment centre” by 2026 as the Swedish furniture retailer is tripling warehouse capacity to support both in-store and online orders via a €50 million investment, it was announced on Tuesday.
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26th March, 2025
Hepatitis A outbreak hits Hungary
Hungary is facing an outbreak of hepatitis A infections, with reported cases in January and February seven times higher than last year, according to the National Public Health and Pharmacy Centre.
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24th March, 2025
2 injured as grenade explodes at training session
A live grenade exploded during a volunteer training session for government officials in Újdörög, seriously injuring a public servant and a training soldier.
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21st March, 2025
EC may withhold funds over sovereignty law
The European Commission has already taken Hungary to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its sovereignty protection law, but further consequences over the legislation may follow, Népszava reports.
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21st March, 2025
Gov’t mandates ATMs in every town
The government has announced in the Hungarian Gazette that at least one ATM must be installed in every municipality, under a resolution signed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
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20th March, 2025
Racist outburst raises tensions in Parliament
Amid Tuesday’s Parliament vote banning Pride, an altercation erupted between Our Homeland’s vice-president, Előd Novák, and Momentum MP Lajos Lőcsei.
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20th March, 2025
Traubisoda returning to shelves
Traubisoda, the iconic Hungarian soft drink of the 1970s and 1980s, is making a comeback, Agriculture Ministry state secretary András Tállai announced on Wednesday at the ceremonial restart of production in Felsőlajos, a village in Bács-Kiskun county.
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18th March, 2025
Foodora couriers await unpaid wages
Couriers contracted by Delivery Hero Hungary, the company behind Foodora, have not been paid, triggering a wave of discontent on Friday, Népszava reports.
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18th March, 2025
New high-security case houses crown
The installation of new state-of-the-art security cabinets for the Hungarian coronation regalia will begin on Monday in the Parliament.
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17th March, 2025
Matolcsy group denies Varga access to MNB assets
Ádám Matolcsy, son of the former MNB governor György Matolcsy, used the pseudonym Petra Kovács in corresponding with dozens of company executives regarding the affairs of Quartz Asset Manager, Polish company GTC and Switzerland’s Ultima Capital, the three companies to which, through many steps, the assets that belonged to the many MNB foundations set up by Matolcsy senior were transferred, Válasz Online reports.
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14th March, 2025
Pro-Fidesz media fared badly in lawsuits last year
Fidesz-affiliated media products lost 67 lawsuits out of 76 press correction lawsuits in 2024, the website Átlátszó reports, having requested the data from the Capital Court.
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14th March, 2025
MTelekom sets date for share buyback
Magyar Telekom will complete the remaining part of a Ft 24 billion share buyback announced last year between March 17 and April 2, totalling Ft 1.7 billion, the company announced on Thursday.
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13th March, 2025
Mystery illness strikes Nagykőrös
Hundreds of people have fallen ill in Nagykőrös, Pest county in recent days, HVG reports.
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12th March, 2025
Philippines job fair offers 3,000 jobs in Hungary
A job fair showcasing opportunities specifically in Hungary will be held on March 11 in Manila, the capital of the Philippine Islands.
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12th March, 2025
Ryanair announces major expansion plans in Hungary
Ryanair unveiled ambitious expansion plans for its Hungary operations at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday.
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11th March, 2025
Spar lays off staff after online cutbacks
Retail chain Spar has laid off dozens of employees following the company’s decision to migrate its online store to food delivery platform Wolt from the end of March, Telex reports.
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11th March, 2025
Wizz Air phasing out onboard cash payments
Just weeks after the government proposed enshrining the right to use cash in the constitution, Wizz Air announced that it will eliminate cash payments from April 1 and in-flight purchases will be possible only via bank cards or digital payments.
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10th March, 2025
Foodora fined following numerous complaints
The Budapest Government Office has fined food delivery company Foodora Ft 50 million, after conducting an extraordinary inspection in response to numerous complaints.
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10th March, 2025
Budapest ambulance system collapses
The ambulance control system in Budapest went down again on Saturday afternoon for about a half an hour from 1:45 p.m., health expert Zsombor Kunetz reported on his Röntgen blog.
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7th March, 2025
Market transforms iconic hotel to flats
Market Asset Management will begin a two-year transformation of the Budapest Hotel into upscale apartments in the summer, the property developer of the Market Group announced on Thursday.
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7th March, 2025
BSE launches trading in 23 ETFs
The Budapest Stock Exchange launched the trading in 23 new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) yesterday, increasing their number to 32, the exchange announced.
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6th March, 2025
Stabbing seen as anti-Hungarian act
László Gubík, the president of Slovakia’s Hungarian Alliance party, said he is personally consulting with the Minister of the Interior after a man attacked a group of four people in Bratislava, who were speaking Hungarian, and cut one of them on the chin with a knife.
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5th March, 2025
CIB offers personal loans under 10%
CIB bank is also offering personal credit under 10% from March 1, following rival lenders, with interest rates at 9.64% for loans over Ft 7 million without any collateral.
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5th March, 2025
Gov’t bails out football club
The government is providing Ft 470 million from the central budget reserves to keep Szombathely-based sports club Haladás afloat and support its operations as an emergency measure, according to the official gazette Magyar Közlöny.
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4th March, 2025
Huge influx into state bonds last week
Last week, an astonishing amount of Ft 370 billion flowed into retail government securities, according to data from the state debt manager ÁKK.
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4th March, 2025
Bank fees now in Nagy’s crosshairs
Bank account charges have been rising significantly with no justification, so, if necessary, the government will take action in this area, Economy Minister Márton wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.
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3rd March, 2025
Work on bridge to Slovakia resumes
The construction of the pedestrian-bicycle bridge across the Danube between Dunakiliti and Dobrohost will resume, as the government has allocated Ft 2.4 billion to complete the project, the Construction and Transport Ministry said on Friday.
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27th February, 2025
Wizz Air targets 40% share of Ukrainian air traffi
Wizz Air is targeting a 40% market share in Ukraine after the war-torn country reopens its air space, CEO József Váradi told Bloomberg news on Wednesday.
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26th February, 2025
Waberer’s to enter passenger transport market
Waberer’s Group is entering the passenger transport market by acquiring a 51% stake in Pannon-Busz-Rent, with the remaining 49% staying with its founder, Zoltán Kölbl, for two years.
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20th February, 2025
Renovations will disrupt airport
Liszt Ferenc International Airport is undergoing renovations until June, requiring passengers to arrive 2.5 hours before departure due to tighter parking regulations starting today.
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19th February, 2025
Bpest joins lawsuit over gas plant decontamination
Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony announced that the city is joining a lawsuit against the state for failing to clean up the heavily polluted Óbuda Gas Plant site in the Third District.
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18th February, 2025
Energy subsidies cost Ft 5trn in three years
The government has spent Ft 5 trillion on subsidising energy costs for various companies and institutions since the end of 2022, more than on national defence and policing, Népszava reports.
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18th February, 2025
Funding cuts cripple city hospital
The state health insurance fund NEAK has halved its funding for daylong surgery and outpatient services at HT Medical Centre, the largest healthcare institution in Budapest’s 17th District, the medical institution announced.
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17th February, 2025
Winners for “adopt a castle” programme announced
Minister of Construction and Transport János Lázár announced the first four winners of Hungary’s “Adopt a Castle” scheme in a Facebook post on Friday.
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17th February, 2025
Former chocolate factory becomes a hotel
The former Stühmer chocolate factory in Budapest’s Eighth District is being transformed into a four-star hotel by construction company Swietelsky Hungary based on the plans of architecture firm D55.
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14th February, 2025
Trump comments have forint floundering
The forint continued to appreciate against major currencies on Thursday, bolstered by the prospects of peace in Ukraine after US President Donald Trump announced that he had had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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14th February, 2025
GVH finds Lidl labels misleading
Competition watchdog GVH fined Lidl Ft 186 million for misleading advertising, having concluded that the retail chain misled consumers by labelling products as "whole grain" when they contained too small a proportion of that ingredient.
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13th February, 2025
City to clean up Rákosrendező area
The city of Budapest will find a way to allow anyone who wants to participate in cleaning up the Rákosrendező area – which is currently still in state hands and has been polluted with garbage for decades – whether they are cabinet ministers or the Fidesz leader on city council, mayor Gergely Karácsony wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
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13th February, 2025
Book festival moves to Bálna
The Budapest International Book Festival will be hosted in the Bálna, a new location on the Pest riverside, on October 2-5.
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12th February, 2025
Wizz Air ready for rapid resumption of flights
Wizz Air is ready to restart flights to Ukraine within six weeks of a ceasefire announcement, CEO József Váradi of the discount airline told Reuters in an interview.
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11th February, 2025
Hungarian minimum wage among lowest in the EU
Hungary has the second-lowest minimum wage in the EU at €706.94 a month, ahead of only Bulgaria at €550.67, according to the latest Eurostat data.
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11th February, 2025
Karácsony announces launch of “metrobuses”
The Budapest transport centre BKK will launch a new “metrobus” system that will carry people living in the outer districts to the metro stations with frequent service, as directly as possible, quickly and without transfers, thus offering passengers a real alternative to driving, mayor Gergely Karácsony announced on Facebook on Monday.
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10th February, 2025
Orbán to outlaw NGOs that receive foreign funds
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán vowed to make it illegal for NGOs to receive money from the US as he ramped up his rhetoric against such groups in his Friday morning interview with Kossuth Rádió, asserting that their aim is to overthrow his government.
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7th February, 2025
OLAF investigating chateau adoption scheme
The EU anti-fraud office OLAF is launching an investigation into what Csaba Molnár termed the “Orbán cabinet’s chateau scam”, the Democratic Coalition MEP announced on Facebook on Thursday.
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7th February, 2025
OTP rally propels BSE to historic high
The benchmark BUX index of the Budapest Stock Exchange climbed 3.33% to 86,996, a new historic high, led by investor demand for OTP shares.
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6th February, 2025
Gránit Bank starts operation in Romania
Gránit Bank has started operations in Romania with digital services, local media reported.
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5th February, 2025
NUMA to open 170-unit boutique building
The NUMA Group is making its debut in Hungary with the opening of a 170-unit facility in Budapest, the Berlin-based company specialising in fully digitised boutique apartments announced on Tuesday.
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4th February, 2025
Cancer mortality rate highest in Hungary
The per capita death rate in Hungary from cancer is the highest in the EU, according to a recent study issued by the European Commission on Monday.
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4th February, 2025
SME website scheme launched
A Ft 9 billion initiative for creating and supporting the online presence of SMEs was launched on Monday, as part of the Demján Programme, the Economy Ministry announced.
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3rd February, 2025
Birthrate falls to new record low
A record low total of 77,500 babies were born in Hungary in 2024, 7,725 fewer than in the previous year, the Central Statistics Office reported on Friday.
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3rd February, 2025
Police catch boy behind bomb scares
Police have caught a 15-year-old pupil who sent threatening messages to 46 schools during January 26-30. The youth used the same text that had been sent to some 400 schools on January 23.
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31st January, 2025
Karácsony kept pre-emptive right secret
Mayor Gergely Karácsony yesterday signed the letter authorizing the city-owned public utility company BKM to exercise its pre-emptive right to buy the land in the 14th District designated as the site of a huge “mini-Dubai” development project.
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31st January, 2025
Two doctors abuse state facilities
Police have caught two doctors in Kiskunhalas who had performed gender-reassignment surgeries outside working hours for cash at the local hospital.
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