Budapest, December 22 (MTI) – Result of a men’s water polo match
played in the Alps Adria League in Budapest on Saturday:UNIQA-UTE (HUN) – ASD Pallanuoto Trieste (ITA)17:7 (5:4, 5:1, 3:1, 4:1)    Altogether nine teams from five countries of the region are
competing in the tournament, with UNIQA-UTE being the only Hungarian
participant. Continue »

Budapest, December 22 (MTI) – Hungary’s accession into the EU’s
Schengen zone has not hindered traffic at the main crossing at
Letenye with non-EU member Croatia over the past two days, head of
the border control authority told MTI on Saturday. After the December 21 accession, Croatian citizens can still
enter Hungary without a visa using only an ID card, as was the
system before, but they have to possess an exit document stamped and
provided to them free-of-charge by the Croatian authorities, Karoly
Kovago said. Due to the new requirement the number of Croatians travelling to
Hungary with an ID card has dropped somewhat, but almost half of
them still entered with that document and the exit proof, he said. Continue »

Budapest, December 22 (MTI) – “No entry” road signs were removed
on the Hungarian-Slovak border between Satoraljaujhely (NE Hungary)
and Slovenske Nove Mesto (Slovakia) last night, just after the two
communities jointly celebrated the enlargement of the Schengen zone
of borderless travel on Friday. Rumour has it that residents of both localities, who objected
that the road had only been open to pedestrians, removed the signs. Continue »

Budapest, December 22 (MTI) – Results of women’s water polo
qualifiers played in Group G of the Champion Teams’ European Cup and  in Group C of the LEN Cup in
Budapest on Saturday:Champions Teams’ European Cup:     Domino Honved (HUN) – ZVL Oestgeest (HOL) 9:8    Uralochka (RUS) – CF Portuense (POL) 23:7     Final result:    1. Domino-Honved 9 points    2. Oestgeest 6    3. Uralochka 3    4. Portuense 0    The Hungarian and the Dutch teams have qualified for the top eight.  LEN Cup:    OSC Budapest-Cemelog (HUN) – TW Zaanstrecht (HOL)      14:6 (3:0, 3:1, 4:2, 4:3)     Olimp Novgorod (RUS) – Sheffield (GBR) 18:5     Final result:    1. OSC 9 points    2. Zaanstrecht 6    3. Novgorod 3    4. Sheffield 0    The Hungarian and the Dutch teams have qualified for the next round. Continue »

Budapest, December 22 (MTI) – Cloudy with mist and fog. Snow,
sleet possible. Moderate winds. Lowest night-time temperatures will be between -3 and -8 degrees
Celsius while the daytime highs will be between -2 and -6 degrees,
the National Weather Service forecasts. Continue »

Budapest, December 22 (MTI) – Leaders of Austria, Hungary and
Slovania as well as senior EU officials inaugurated a memorial
column marking the enlargement of the European Union’s area of
borderless travel at Hegyeshalom on the Hungarian-Austrian border on
Saturday morning. Continue »

Nagylak, December 22 (MTI) – Hungarian and Romanian customs
officers discovered 10.5 kilogrammes of heroin worth around 150
million forints (600,000 euros) in a car with Bulgarian plates, a
customs authority spokesman told MTI on Saturday. The Bulgarian driver, who attempted to enter Hungary at Nagylak
crossing station, told the officers that he was heading for
Switzerland. The officers became suspicious when they saw that the interior
of the car had been restructured and called for a sniffer dog. The
officers found 20 packets of heroin hidden inside the back seats. Continue »

Budapest, December 22 (MTI) – A Romanian national died when the
minibus he was travelling in crashed with car on motorway M1 near
Tatabanya, a disaster management spokesman told MTI on Saturday. Several other people are also believed to have been injured in
the accident, which happened when the minibus, with German plates,
crashed into a metal fence, spun several times on the road and
collided with a Romanian-registered car. The victim of the accident
was projected out of the minibus. Traffic in the Vienna direction between the 55 and 66 kilometre
marks is being rerouted, causing a tailback on the motorway. Continue »

Budapest, December 22 (MTI) – The Republic of Belarus will
increase its visa fees for citizens of some Central and Eastern
European countries, including Hungary, which have recently joined
the European Union’s Schengen border control system, MTI learnt from
a statement issued by the Embassy of Belarus in Budapest on Saturday. Continue »

Budapest, December 22 (MTI) – Top officials of Hungary’s senior
governing Socialists are to hold a two-day session in mid January to
decide on the party’s strategy for combating the main opposition’s
referendum campaign to overturn key government reforms, as well as
how to manage future reforms, said national daily Nepszava on
Saturday. Continue »