Nimes, France – The Hungarian team won its second game in the 18th Women’s World Championships against African Championship runner-up Congo. Congo-Hungary 20-33 (9-18) Continue »

Budapest, December 3 (MTI) – Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany and
his family will spend Christmas in Bulgaria, MTI learnt from
Gyurcsany’s internet blog on Monday. Government spokesman David Daroczi told MTI that Gyurcsany was
scheduled to be on holiday between December 20 and January 7, 2008,
during which time Finance Minister Janos Veres would take over his
responsibilities. The Gyurcsany family will be visiting relatives of the PM’s
wife, Klara Dobrev. Continue »

Paris, December 3 (MTI) – Financial expert Richard Jungto (54)
has been appointed as Hungary’s honorary consul to Mulhouse, France,
MTI learnt on Monday. Hungary opened its honorary consular office in Mulhouse — the
eighth in France — last Friday, to service five counties in Eastern
France’s Alsace and Franche-Comte regions. Continue »

Budapest, December 3 (MTI) – The poems of eminent 20th-century
Hungarian poet Attila Jozsef (1905-1937) will be once again posted
on the world wide web on January 1, 2008 as their copyright has now
expired, a senior official of the National Szechenyi Library (OSZK)
told MTI on Monday. Continue »

Budapest, December 3 (MTI) – A Transylvanian village has joined
the Hungarian-Slovak initiative to create a cultural route linking
historic castles once owned by the Hungarian Andrassy noble family,
the local paper Kronika reported on Monday. Continue »

Budapest, December 3 (MTI) – Budapest’s main stock index, the
BUX, closed Monday at 25,323.31 points, down 1.69 percent. Total turnover was 19.78 billion forints. Continue »

Budapest, December 3 (MTI) – International colour experts for the first time visited Budapest on Monday to hold their biannual meeting on upcoming colour trends, a Hungarian member of the fashion committee Eva Bajczar told MTI. Continue »

Budapest, December 3 (MTI) – The Hungarian and Croatian governments on Monday discussed issues connected with Roma integration, focusing on housing and social integration. Continue »

Budapest, December 3 (MTI) – Tuesday’s forecast calls for sporadic showers and snow in the hills. North-westerly winds will gust to high. Continue »

Budapest, December 3 (MTI) – Hungary’s finance ministry will not allow local governments to run up excessive debts in the interest of staying on target to cut the budget deficit to 3.2 percent of GDP in 2009, Finance Minister Janos Veres told a meeting of Parliament’s European Affairs Committee on Monday. Continue »