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  • Latest Retail Sales Stats Grow By 4.2% in Hungary

    Latest Retail Sales Stats Grow By 4.2% in Hungary

    • 8 May 2024 7:16 AM

    Retail sales in Hungary rose by an annual 3.6% in March, and by 4.2% when adjusted for calendar year effects, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said.

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  • Workers’ Home Construction in Hungary Gets A Boost - Limit on Foreign Tenants

    Workers’ Home Construction in Hungary Gets A Boost - Limit on Foreign Tenants

    • 8 May 2024 7:14 AM

    The government has earmarked nearly Ft 20 billion in subsidies for the construction of 25-30 residential buildings for workers in the next three years, the Economy Ministry announced.

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  • Ministry Signs  Partnership Agreement With AmCham Hungary

    Ministry Signs Partnership Agreement With AmCham Hungary

    • 8 May 2024 6:45 AM

    János Bóka, the minister in charge of European affairs, said that he had signed a strategic partnership agreement on behalf of his ministry with AmCham Hungary, the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary.

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  • Drastic Price Cuts on Meat Coming to Multinational Supermarket Chain in Hungary

    Drastic Price Cuts on Meat Coming to Multinational Supermarket Chain in Hungary

    • 8 May 2024 6:15 AM

    Aldi is cutting the prices of fresh and frozen meat products, reports Világgazdaság. Since 2021, the German-based discount supermarket has been offering only Hungarian fresh meat, hence these meat products, which are part of its permanent range, will also be sourced from Hungary.

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  • International Project Aims to Display Botticelli Murals in Esztergom Castle & More

    International Project Aims to Display Botticelli Murals in Esztergom Castle & More

    • 8 May 2024 5:41 AM

    The Hungarian National Museum has won a tender for the renovation of the Esztergom Castle Museum and the Esterházy Castle in Želiezovce (Zselíz, Slovakia), to invest more than EUR 2 million in tourism development.

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  • The World of Banksy in Budapest: 'The Street is a Canvas'

    The World of Banksy in Budapest: 'The Street is a Canvas'

    • 7 May 2024 1:57 PM

    On until 22 September. He’s world famous but still a mystery – Banksy, the Bristol-born and to this day anonymous graffiti artist and painter, known for challenging the boundaries of the art market, who has been causing a sensation with his work for many years.

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  • Hungary Can Become Key Player in Space Industry, Claims Econmin

    Hungary Can Become Key Player in Space Industry, Claims Econmin

    • 7 May 2024 1:57 PM

    Hungary’s economic ecosystem, infrastructure and intellectual capital make the country capable of becoming a crucial player in the space industry, the national economy minister said in Martonvásár, on the outskirts of Budapest.

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  • Hospital Pharmacies in Hungary May Soon Be Privatised

    Hospital Pharmacies in Hungary May Soon Be Privatised

    • 7 May 2024 11:45 AM

    The state-run pharmacies in state-run hospitals may be outsourced into a private concession within months, Portfolio reports.

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  • Key University in Budapest Faces Funding Crisis, Basic Operations Under Threat

    Key University in Budapest Faces Funding Crisis, Basic Operations Under Threat

    • 7 May 2024 11:08 AM

    A funding crisis at the Budapest University of Technology (BME) has prompted the rector and eight faculty deans to request a one-time grant from the Ministry of Culture and Innovation to sustain basic operations, 444 reports.

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  • Improving Relations Between Hungary & Armenia Result in Embassies Opening & New Budapest to Yerevan Flights

    Improving Relations Between Hungary & Armenia Result in Embassies Opening & New Budapest to Yerevan Flights

    • 7 May 2024 7:18 AM

    Hungary and Armenia have agreed to open embassies in each other’s capitals, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Monday, calling the move another important step in the two countries’ improving bilateral relations since their restoration of diplomatic ties a year-and-a-half ago.

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  • Details of Chinese President’s ‘Historic’ Visit to Hungary Revealed by FM Szijjártó

    Details of Chinese President’s ‘Historic’ Visit to Hungary Revealed by FM Szijjártó

    • 7 May 2024 6:55 AM

    The visit of the Chinese president later this week is of historic importance and will greatly contribute to strengthening Hungary, developing bilateral economic and trade relations and, hopefully, to the success of peace efforts, Péter Szijjártó has said.

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  • An Englishwoman's Life in Communist Hungary': Book 2, Chapter 5.

    An Englishwoman's Life in Communist Hungary': Book 2, Chapter 5.

    • 7 May 2024 5:27 AM

    Marion Merrick’s books are the only first-hand account written by a westerner of what it was like to live and work in communist Hungary, and then in the aftermath of the 1989 change of regime.

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  • Hungarian Opinion Weeklies on 20 Years in the EU and the Run-Up to the EU Elections

    Hungarian Opinion Weeklies on 20 Years in the EU and the Run-Up to the EU Elections

    • 7 May 2024 5:14 AM

    Left-liberal authors disapprove of the government’s confrontational attitude towards the European Union, while their pro-government colleagues hope that the June elections will produce a new political order in Brussels.

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  • Photos: Unprecedented Crowds at Péter Magyar's Latest Rally in Hungary

    Photos: Unprecedented Crowds at Péter Magyar's Latest Rally in Hungary

    • 7 May 2024 5:02 AM

    Hungary needs love and peace; it needs to bury the trenches, and a leadership that “doesn’t pretend to be rural and family-friendly, or Christian, but works every day in the interest of the Hungarian people,”

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