Budapest, April 30 (MTI) – Main opposition Fidesz leader Tibor
Navracsics said on Wednesday that the country had been pushed into
quagmire of inefficiency over the past six years by the
Socialist-liberal government.   Continue »

I first want to establish that
renewable energy involves the usage of resources that can be naturally
replenished such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat. Some of
the leading renewable energy technologies currently available include solar
panels, wind turbines, hydropower, and engines that can run on biofuels. This
leads us to microgeneration, which is either an individual or a community
employing renewable energy technologies for the purposes of both satisfying
their energy needs and minimizing their environmental impact. Continue »

Budapest, April 30 (MTI) – Overcast skies alternating with sunny
periods. Sporadic rain are showers are likely mostly in the
afternoon. Winds will be from the south, south-west and stronger
gusts are possible during showers. Overnight lows should range from 6 to 11 degrees Celsius, and
daytime highs will be between 18 and 23 degrees Celsius, the
National Weather Service reports. Continue »

Budapest, April 30 (MTI) – Some 450 Hungarian participants are
scheduled to leave for Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oswiecim, Poland) on
Wednesday to take part in this year’s March of the Living to
remember victims of the Holocaust at Nazi death camps.  Continue »

Budapest, April 30 (MTI) – The Socialist-Free Democrat
government coalition held its last cabinet session on Wednesday,
government spokesman David Daroczi told MTI. Continue »

Budapest’s much-maligned
M4 metro project is being blamed for a mysterious lowering of the water level
in a popular Budapest oasis. The Bottomless Lake (Feneketlen tó) in District XI
dropped by a metre over the winter, prompting fears that it is being affected
by ongoing excavation of Budapest’s fourth metro line, which runs through the
nearby Móricz Zsigmond körtér. Continue »

Budapest, April 30 (MTI) – Local Government and Regional
Development State Secretary Istvan Ujhelyi resigned from his post on
Tuesday, stating that he felt unneeded in the government after its
recent reshuffle, the daily Nepszabadsag reported on Wednesday.  Continue »

Budapest, April 30 (MTI) – Hungary’s main opposition Fidesz
party is preparing plans for a flat-rate income tax system as part
of the party’s economic policy, the business daily Vilaggazdasag
reported on Wednesday. Continue »

Bratislava, April 30 (MTI) – The Slovak government is ready to
offer financial aid to the Slovak minority in the Hungarian village
of Pilisszentkereszt if a dispute over the minority council premises
cannot be resolved locally, government spokeswoman Silvia Glendova
said late on Tuesday.  Continue »

While most media seem to operate
freely in Hungary and a wide selection of competitive media outlets
generally operate without interference from the state, media
advocates note a slight pro-governmental bias in most state-owned
media, the non-profit human rights organisation Freedom House said
in its annual report on global press freedom released in Washington
on Tuesday.  Continue »