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  • Israel Football Teams to Play Fixtures in Hungary

    Israel Football Teams to Play Fixtures in Hungary

    • 23 Jan 2024 8:40 AM

    Israel had asked Hungary to allow its national football teams to play some of its official matches in Hungary, as was the case last year, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council.

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  • MOL Awards Bosses HUF 2.5 Billion in Bonuses

    MOL Awards Bosses HUF 2.5 Billion in Bonuses

    • 23 Jan 2024 8:36 AM

    MOL has given its senior executives a share package worth slightly more than Ft 2.5 billion, in line with its remuneration policy, the energy company announced on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange.

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  • Inquiry Started After Factory Hires Foreigners Ahead of Hungarians

    Inquiry Started After Factory Hires Foreigners Ahead of Hungarians

    • 23 Jan 2024 8:13 AM

    The Economy Ministry has launched an inquiry after Asian workers were hired instead of Hungarians in a factory in Salgotarjan.

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  • Enhanced Emergency Call System Launching in Hungary Soon

    Enhanced Emergency Call System Launching in Hungary Soon

    • 23 Jan 2024 8:03 AM

    Pest and Fejer counties will join the new primary care on-call system on February 1, completing the nationwide network of the new emergency system, spokesman Pál Györfi of the ambulance service OMSZ announced.

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  • Updated: Number of Foreigners Working in Hungary Nears 100,000

    Updated: Number of Foreigners Working in Hungary Nears 100,000

    • 23 Jan 2024 7:43 AM

    Growing foreign direct investment and domestic full employment make it necessary for Hungary to receive an increasing number of guest workers from Asia.

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  • An Englishwoman's Life in Communist Hungary': Book 2, Chapter 3.

    An Englishwoman's Life in Communist Hungary': Book 2, Chapter 3.

    • 22 Jan 2024 12:58 PM

    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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  • New Housing Market in Budapest Shrank by Half Last Year

    New Housing Market in Budapest Shrank by Half Last Year

    • 22 Jan 2024 11:15 AM

    Based on the primary demand and supply indicators, the capital's new housing market shrank by half last year, according to OTP Jelzálogbank's latest Budapest New Home Value Map, writes profitline.hu.

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  • First Hydrogen Filling Station Opens in Hungary

    First Hydrogen Filling Station Opens in Hungary

    • 22 Jan 2024 10:58 AM

    The first hydrogen filling station in Hungary, operated by Linde Gáz Magyarország, has started operating in the south of the capital.

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  • EP Threatens to Sue Commission for Releasing Funds to Hungary

    EP Threatens to Sue Commission for Releasing Funds to Hungary

    • 22 Jan 2024 10:37 AM

    A left-wing columnist agrees with the European Parliament in its criticism of the European Commission, while a pro-government commentator describes the repeated moves by the EP against the Hungarian government as a ’despicable soap opera’.

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  • 'The Little Prince', Erkel Theatre Budapest, 14 – 18 February

    'The Little Prince', Erkel Theatre Budapest, 14 – 18 February

    • 22 Jan 2024 10:15 AM

    The Little Prince comes to life in a magical first-class theatre spectacular live on stage.

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  • Budapest Mayor's Refusal to Pay City's Taxes 'Unprecedented', Says Hungarian FM

    Budapest Mayor's Refusal to Pay City's Taxes 'Unprecedented', Says Hungarian FM

    • 22 Jan 2024 9:16 AM

    Finance Minister Mihály Varga, in an interview with the online edition of business daily Világgazdaság, said it was “unprecedented” that while Budapest residents and businesses meet their tax obligations, the city’s mayor “ignores them”.

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  • Updated: Household Solar Energy Scheme Starts in Hungary- State Aid Covers 65%

    Updated: Household Solar Energy Scheme Starts in Hungary- State Aid Covers 65%

    • 22 Jan 2024 8:50 AM

    Applications for the Solar Energy Plus Programme, which provides state subsidies for households installing solar panels and compulsory electricity storage facilities, were accepted from 10 a.m. Monday.

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  • 'TechnoCool: New Trends in Hungarian Art in the Nineties', Hungarian National Gallery Budapest

    'TechnoCool: New Trends in Hungarian Art in the Nineties', Hungarian National Gallery Budapest

    • 21 Jan 2024 11:20 AM

    On display until 11 February 2024. The exhibition titled TechnoCool, opening in the Hungarian National Gallery at the end of October, explores the way of thinking of the generation of artists, who started their career in the 1990s and who felt liberated by the economic-cultural openness after the change in the political system.

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  • “Kifli City” is 2nd Biggest Community in Hungary

    “Kifli City” is 2nd Biggest Community in Hungary

    • 19 Jan 2024 8:30 PM

    In its 4 years of existence Kifli has served over 200k customers, making the "Kifli city" the 2nd largest community in Hungary.

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