Budapest, February 27 (MTI) – Main opposition Fidesz showed a lead of 39 to 15 percent ahead of the senior governing Socialist party in a February poll released by pollster Tarki on Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, February 27 (MTI) – Hungary’s greenhouse gas emission
could be reduced by 7-8 percent through introducing more efficient
ways of energy consumption to households, said a report compiled by
the Central European University at the request of the Hungarian
Environment Ministry, on Wednesday. Continue »

The Hungarian government will pay
20 million forints to every Hungarian sportsman or sportswoman who
wins a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, a senior official
of the ministry of regional development said on Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, February 27 (MTI) – Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany
and his Socialist party appear ready to back plans for tax cuts
worth 300 billion forints (1.17 billion euros) in 2009, leader of
the junior government coalition SZDSZ party Janos Koka said on
Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, February 27 (MTI) – Hungary will be among the
countries recognising Kosovo, but it will wait for the moment when
the act involves the smallest possible risk for the Hungarian
community in Serbia as well as for Serbian-Hungarian relations,
Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz told reporters on Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, February 27 (MTI) – Presidents Laszlo Solyom of
Hungary and Danilo Turk of Slovenia held one-to-one talks in
Budapest on Wednesday, focusing on the situation of ethnic
minorities. Continue »

Four million Hungarian voters —
54 percent of the voting population — intend to vote in the March 9
referendum on overturning the government’s doctor, hospital and
university tuition fees, according to the latest poll by Nezopont
Institute for weekly Heti Valasz. Continue »

Budapest, February 27 (MTI) – Mostly overcast, showers expected
in the west. Fresh north-westerly winds gusting to high. Lowest night-time temperatures will be between 2 and 7 degrees
Celsius while the daytime highs will be between 10 and 15 degrees
Celsius, the National Weather Service forecasts. Continue »

Budapest, February 27 (MTI) – Hungary’s agreement with Russia’s
Gazprom to build a stretch of the South Stream pipeline contains no
stipulations restricting other existing or future agreements, said
government officials on Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, February 27 (MTI) – Hungary’s government is mulling
plans to amend the strike law, national daily Nepszava said on
Wednesday. Continue »