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Fungarian: Why Is Halloween Strange For Hungarians?
- 30 Oct 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
November 1st is national holiday. According to the Catholic calendar, it’s All Saints’ Day – but Hungarians call it Day of the Dead (Halottak napja), when traditionally it’s a family obligation to tend the graves of their closest relatives.
Lit by thousands of candles, the cemeteries are a melancholic and beautiful sight on this day. The most common flower of the season people put on the graves ...
Defence Minister: The Security Of Hungarians Must Be Guaranteed At The Highest Possible Level
- 30 Oct 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Speaking in Szolnok Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó emphasized that in addition to creating the legal conditions, the people’s security can be guaranteed through effective cooperation among the law enforcement and security organizations.
Émile: A Culinary Gem In The Buda Hills
- 28 Oct 2016 12:55 PM
- food & drink
I’ve passed this Buda villa several times, and was intrigued to find out what it was like inside as I'd asked friends and no-one I knew had visited. So recently, rather than go to one of my usual haunts, I ventured over to leafy Buda - and was definitely not disappointed to make the trip across the river. Set in the leafy 2nd district, it felt like being in South Kensington at a place exuding an ...
Jobless Rate 4.9% In July-September
- 28 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- business
Hungary’s rolling average three-month jobless rate reached 4.9% in July- September, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported. The rate, which covers unemployment among 15 to 74-yearolds, was level with that in June-August but fell from 6.4% in the same period a year earlier.
Economic Weight Of Industry In Hungary Among Highest In Eu
- 28 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- business
Industry accounted for 27.8% of gross value added (GVA) in Hungary last year, among the highest rates in the European Union, data compiled by Eurostat show. Only the rates in the Czech Republic (32.1) and Ireland (39.1) were higher among member states, although Eurostat noted that the picture for Ireland is skewed because of the relocation of a limited number of big economic operators to the ...
Gyurcsány: Népszabadság Closure ‘Attack On Press Freedom’
- 27 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) leader Ferenc Gyurcsány said the closure of national daily Népszabadság may have been plotted as early as summer this year. Viktor Orbán, the prime minister, and “his business circle” did a deal with Austrian businessman Heinrich Pecina, publisher Mediaworks’ former owner, to obtain the daily and 12 regional papers in the publisher’s portfolio as well, ...
Office Market Closes Robust Q3, Momentum May Linger Into Next Year
- 25 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- property
Occupier demand remained robust in the Hungarian office market in the third-quarter of the year, a trend Cushman & Wakefield predicts will continue into next year, according to an analysis sent to the Budapest Business Journal yesterday. Developers have started some speculative new projects this year, but there is very little committed new supply for 2017, therefore C&W expects the office market ...
Seeing Success, Taxify Plans Expansion In Hungary
- 25 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- getting around
Following almost two months of operations in Budapest, Estonia-based transportation company Taxify has requested that the Hungarian National Transport Authority greenlight the company’s plans to double the number of cars it operates in the capital, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal yesterday.
1956, State Commemoration – Orbán: October 23 A ‘Day To Be Proud’
- 24 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
October 23 is a day on which Hungarians should be proud, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the state commemoration of Hungary’s anti-Soviet uprising of 1956 at Budapest’s Kossuth Square in front of Parliament on Sunday. Even after 60 years, October 23 is still a day that “lifts up and cleanses us”, the prime minister said, calling the national holiday a “shared heritage” of the Hungarian people.
Fungarian: Why Is Halloween Strange For Hungarians?
- 30 Oct 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
November 1st is national holiday. According to the Catholic calendar, it’s All Saints’ Day – but Hungarians call it Day of the Dead (Halottak napja), when traditionally it’s a family obligation to tend the graves of their closest relatives.
Lit by thousands of candles, the cemeteries are a melancholic and beautiful sight on this day. The most common flower of the season people put on the graves ...
Defence Minister: The Security Of Hungarians Must Be Guaranteed At The Highest Possible Level
- 30 Oct 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Speaking in Szolnok Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó emphasized that in addition to creating the legal conditions, the people’s security can be guaranteed through effective cooperation among the law enforcement and security organizations.
Émile: A Culinary Gem In The Buda Hills
- 28 Oct 2016 12:55 PM
- food & drink
I’ve passed this Buda villa several times, and was intrigued to find out what it was like inside as I'd asked friends and no-one I knew had visited. So recently, rather than go to one of my usual haunts, I ventured over to leafy Buda - and was definitely not disappointed to make the trip across the river. Set in the leafy 2nd district, it felt like being in South Kensington at a place exuding an ...
Jobless Rate 4.9% In July-September
- 28 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- business
Hungary’s rolling average three-month jobless rate reached 4.9% in July- September, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported. The rate, which covers unemployment among 15 to 74-yearolds, was level with that in June-August but fell from 6.4% in the same period a year earlier.
Economic Weight Of Industry In Hungary Among Highest In Eu
- 28 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- business
Industry accounted for 27.8% of gross value added (GVA) in Hungary last year, among the highest rates in the European Union, data compiled by Eurostat show. Only the rates in the Czech Republic (32.1) and Ireland (39.1) were higher among member states, although Eurostat noted that the picture for Ireland is skewed because of the relocation of a limited number of big economic operators to the ...
Gyurcsány: Népszabadság Closure ‘Attack On Press Freedom’
- 27 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) leader Ferenc Gyurcsány said the closure of national daily Népszabadság may have been plotted as early as summer this year. Viktor Orbán, the prime minister, and “his business circle” did a deal with Austrian businessman Heinrich Pecina, publisher Mediaworks’ former owner, to obtain the daily and 12 regional papers in the publisher’s portfolio as well, ...
Office Market Closes Robust Q3, Momentum May Linger Into Next Year
- 25 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- property
Occupier demand remained robust in the Hungarian office market in the third-quarter of the year, a trend Cushman & Wakefield predicts will continue into next year, according to an analysis sent to the Budapest Business Journal yesterday. Developers have started some speculative new projects this year, but there is very little committed new supply for 2017, therefore C&W expects the office market ...
Seeing Success, Taxify Plans Expansion In Hungary
- 25 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- getting around
Following almost two months of operations in Budapest, Estonia-based transportation company Taxify has requested that the Hungarian National Transport Authority greenlight the company’s plans to double the number of cars it operates in the capital, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal yesterday.
1956, State Commemoration – Orbán: October 23 A ‘Day To Be Proud’
- 24 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
October 23 is a day on which Hungarians should be proud, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the state commemoration of Hungary’s anti-Soviet uprising of 1956 at Budapest’s Kossuth Square in front of Parliament on Sunday. Even after 60 years, October 23 is still a day that “lifts up and cleanses us”, the prime minister said, calling the national holiday a “shared heritage” of the Hungarian people.