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  • Family Puzzled After Election Notifications Sent to Dead People in Hungary

    Family Puzzled After Election Notifications Sent to Dead People in Hungary

    • 25 Apr 2024 6:29 AM

    A family from Halásztelek, in Pest county, raised concerns when their grandmother, who passed away in 2017, and a neighbour who left the country in the 1980s and would have been 116 years old, received election notifications, HVG reports.

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  • Updated: Another Conservative Political Conference to Be Held In Hungary This April

    Updated: Another Conservative Political Conference to Be Held In Hungary This April

    • 24 Apr 2024 9:59 AM

    Hungary will host another Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in April, Miklós Szánthó, the head of the Center for Fundamental Rights (Alapjogokért Központ), said in a video on Facebook.

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  • Police Arrest Slovak Arms Dealers in Hungary, With International Cooperation

    Police Arrest Slovak Arms Dealers in Hungary, With International Cooperation

    • 24 Apr 2024 7:23 AM

    Police in Hungary and Slovakia have arrested Slovak arms dealers who sent weapons to Sweden, Spain, and South Africa, Hungarian law enforcement said on Tuesday, describing the final phase of a multiyear operation.

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  • Budapest-Xian Flight to Launch From Summer

    Budapest-Xian Flight to Launch From Summer

    • 24 Apr 2024 7:16 AM

    A direct flight between Budapest and Xian, the capital of Shaanxi Province, will start operating in the summer, bringing the number of big Chinese cities travellers can reach with direct flights from Budapest to six, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, Péter Szijjártó, announced during a visit to Beijing.

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  • Chinese Investments Worth HUF 6,000 Billion Under Way In Hungary

    Chinese Investments Worth HUF 6,000 Billion Under Way In Hungary

    • 24 Apr 2024 7:02 AM

    Currently there are some 6,000 billion forints (EUR 15.2bn) worth of Chinese investment projects under way in Hungary, creating 25,000 jobs, the foreign ministry quoted Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, as saying in Beijing.

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  • Historical Psychological Thriller Presented by Hungarian State Opera

    Historical Psychological Thriller Presented by Hungarian State Opera

    • 24 Apr 2024 6:56 AM

    On 27 April 2024, the Hungarian State Opera will present Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov with Kossuth Prize recipient Gábor Bretz in the title role. The new production staged by András Almási-Tóth is to be performed in the original (1869) version, for the first time in Hungary, under the baton of Alan Buribayev.

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  • Special Effects Hungary Expands Portfolio with Acquisition of Creative Agency

    Special Effects Hungary Expands Portfolio with Acquisition of Creative Agency

    • 23 Apr 2024 2:56 PM

    One of Hungary's leading event service providers, Special Effects, continues its strategic growth with the acquisition of Universum 8.

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  • Surprisingly 46% Tax Included in Regular Petrol Price in Hungary is Actually Lower Than in Many EU Countries

    Surprisingly 46% Tax Included in Regular Petrol Price in Hungary is Actually Lower Than in Many EU Countries

    • 23 Apr 2024 2:20 PM

    Hungary’s taxes are not to blame for high fuel prices, the finance minister said on Monday, adding that taxes on fuels were among the lowest in the European Union.

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  • LIFE Programme: HUF 1.4 Billion Earmarked for Nature Protection by Budapest City Council

    LIFE Programme: HUF 1.4 Billion Earmarked for Nature Protection by Budapest City Council

    • 23 Apr 2024 2:02 PM

    Budapest’s municipal council is set to allocate 1.4 billion forints (EUR 3.5m) for the preservation of nature conservation areas after being awarded funding from a European Union scheme, Gergely Karácsony, the city’s mayor, said on Monday, marking Earth Day.

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  • Times Higher Education Signs Agreement with Culture Ministry in Hungary

    Times Higher Education Signs Agreement with Culture Ministry in Hungary

    • 23 Apr 2024 1:18 PM

    The culture and innovation ministry has signed a long-term partnership agreement with Times Higher Education aimed at further developing Hungary’s higher education system, the ministry announced.

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  • Over 190,000 More Students to Receive Laptops in Hungarian Schools

    Over 190,000 More Students to Receive Laptops in Hungarian Schools

    • 23 Apr 2024 1:09 PM

    The government will distribute another 193,000 laptops in primary and secondary schools, bringing the number of students using such devices purchased from central coffers to 450,000, a state secretary of the interior ministry said.

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  • Orbán on Tour: “First Hungarian Prime Minister to Come From a Village” Meets Rural Farmers

    Orbán on Tour: “First Hungarian Prime Minister to Come From a Village” Meets Rural Farmers

    • 23 Apr 2024 12:59 PM

    Viktor Orbán, the prime minister who also leads the ruling Fidesz party, has embarked on a campaign tour of rural Hungary, meeting farmers in Nemesgörzsöny, in central Hungary, on Monday.

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  • Hungary Signs Military And Defence Industry Cooperation Deal with UAE

    Hungary Signs Military And Defence Industry Cooperation Deal with UAE

    • 23 Apr 2024 12:02 PM

    Hungary and the United Arab Emirates have signed a military and defence industry cooperation agreement, the defence ministry said in a statement.

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  • EU 'Preparing for World War', Reveals Hungarian Foreign Minister

    EU 'Preparing for World War', Reveals Hungarian Foreign Minister

    • 23 Apr 2024 11:31 AM

    Decision-makers in Brussels "are preparing for a world war" in response to the deteriorating military situation in Ukraine, despite the "failure of the strategy of weapon deliveries", the minister of foreign affairs and trade has said.

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