Budapest, February 20 (MTI) – Book sales in Hungary in 2007
generated 67 billion forints (EUR 251m), 2.11 percent more than in
2006, the Federation of Hungarian Book Publishers and Distributors
MKKE reported on Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, February 20 (MTI) – Hungary’s newly set-up government
commission for its army’s NATO mission in Afghanistan met for the
first time on Wednesday, with the aim of taking co-ordination of
projects to a higher level, Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz told MTI
after the meeting. Continue »

Sovereign Wealth Funds vs. RothschildsI recently came across a September 2007 article from The Economist entitled “The new Rothschilds”. This article draws a parallel between the activities of the Rothschilds to the financial muscle now wielded by sovereign wealth funds. In order to truly understand the context of this comparison, we should turn back the clock a few hundred years and investigate how the Rothschilds became such a formidable financial force.  Continue »

Budapest, February 20 (MTI) – Hungary’s Foreign Ministry
condemns the bombings in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which happened
earlier this week, the ministry spokesperson said in a statement on
Wednesday. Continue »

Brussels, February 20 (MTI) – Jozsef Szajer, MEP of Hungary’s
main opposition Fidesz, and Magda Kosa Kovacs, MEP of the governing
Socialist Party, voiced support for the Lisbon Treaty in the
European Parliament on Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, February 20(MTI) – Overcast skies in the north
triggering sporadic showers. Sunny throughout the day in the south.
Winds will be from the west and may pick up in the afternoon. Nighttime lows should range from -4 to +1 degrees Celsius, and
daytime highs will be between +8 and +13 degrees Celsius, the
National Weather Service reports. Continue »

Budapest, February 20 (MTI) – An exhibition entitled “Picasso
and the International Avant-garde” will open in a local cultural
centre in Szeged (S Hungary) on March 1, the centre’s director told
reporters on Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, February 20 (MTI) – Hungary has presented a draft
agreement on the Nabucco gas pipeline — a project to import gas
from central Asia to Europe via Turkey, lessening the region’s
dependence on Russian gas — to the four countries through which the
planned pipeline will pass, an economy ministry official said on
Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, February 20 (MTI) – Gross wages rose 8.0 percent and
net wages were up 2.8 percent in 2007 compared to a year earlier,
the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, February 20 (MTI) – Hungary’s main opposition Fidesz
could well win the March 9 referendum on government reforms, Prime
Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany told Wednesday’s national daily
Nepszabadsag. But if it does, the short-term win will not translate
into a wider victory on the policy front. Continue »