Europe Hungary Couples with three children can get up to HUF 110 million (around €305.000) in support, including soft loans to buy a house, in addition to existing family allowances and exiting soft loans
Europe Hungary €1.7bn from taxes will be distributed to families in early 2022 and the minimum wage will be significantly increased among the government moves ahead of the election, competitive for the first time in 10 years as opposition denounces rampant corruption
Europe Hungary Hungarian industrial production increased more than initially estimated in July, according to data from the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, with the largest contribution coming from the manufacture of electrical equipment
Europe Hungary Tobacco company Philip Morris has inaugurated a 3 billion forint - 86 million euro - electronic cigarette recycling centre in Gyál, capable of recycling 150.000 electric tobacco devices a month
Europe Hungary The national Restart Program helps nearly 1.500 ethnic Hungarian organizations to help with operational costs, procurement and development projects; the figures have been made public by a recent press conference of the Secretary of State
Europe Hungary Festivities for the big St Stephen’s Day weekend begin today, with hundreds of events at 17 different locations across the country, from fireworks to celebrations of Hungarian cuisine
Europe Hungary Despite the critically low water level in Lake Velence, the government - who has acknowledged that additional water would be sorely needed - believes the replenishment plan is too costly
Europe Hungary The 26th Budapest Pride, which ended this weekend, saw the highest participation ever, with the LGBT community being hit by an "unprecedented disavowal" in recent times, as Ádám Csikós, one of the organisers, put it
Europe Hungary During journalist Eszter Mengyán's latest environmental podcast, President János Áder emphasised that over-consumption has serious consequences for the environment and invited to avoid buying unnecessary clothes by preferring second-hand items
Europe Hungary National short track speed skating team, men and women, has completed the second summer training in Bormio, Italy, in view of medal chances at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
Europe Hungary The country moved up five places to 42nd position in the competitiveness ranking published by the IMD World Competitiveness Center of the Swiss Business School
Europe Hungary On the occasion of shooting her next movie, Borderlands, in the country, the actress Jamie Lee Curtis visited Mátészalka and promised to help raise funds for the restoration of the local synagogue
Europe Hungary Proposed new anti-pedophilia bill with harsher penalties for this crime was supported by the National Assembly while The Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (MKPK) has condemned all forms of child abuse and declared zero tolerance towards it