The policing committee of Budapest
Municipal Council on Wednesday proposed to ask Mayor Gabor Demszky
to request a budget topup for the Budapest police force from the
central budget funds, similarly to the funds just requested for the
cash-strapped public transport company BKV.  Continue »

Budapest, April 9 (MTI) – Overcast skies alternating with longer
sunny periods. Sporadic rain, showers are likely. Thundershowers,
even hail, are expected during the afternoon. Southerly,
south-westerly winds will pick up and gust to high during
thundershowers. Nighttime lows should range from 6 to 11 degrees Celsius and
daytime highs will be between 17 and 22 degrees Celsius, the
National Weather Service reports. Continue »

Budapest, April 9 (MTI) – Hungary has allocated around 20
billion forints (about 79.9 million euros) this year for
international development, Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz said on
Wednesday.  Continue »

President
László Sólyom last Friday assured his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai that
Hungarian troops would be in Afghanistan
for the long haul during Karzai’s one-day visit to Budapest. “Hungary
is planning a long-term presence in Afghanistan
along with the international community,” Sólyom said following talks with
Karzai, who flew in from the NATO summit in Bucharest. Continue »

Budapest, April 9 (MTI) – Hungary’s Local Government and Regional Development Minister Gordon Bajnai addressed the opening ceremony of this year’s international construction exhibition and fair Construma in Budapest on Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, April 9 (MTI) – It is highly unlikely that the Socialists will manage to sustain a minority government until the next scheduled elections in 2010, said Socialist MP Tamas Suchman in an interview with right-wing daily Magyar Nemzet on Wednesday. Continue »

The presidium of the governing Socialist Party (MSZP) should offer its resignation to the party congress, Prime Minister and Socialist chair Ferenc Gyurcsany said on Hungarian commercial television channel tv2 on Tuesday, though he understood that the presidium thought differently about this. Continue »

House Speaker Katalin
Szili last Thursday opened the construction of the HUF 226.1 billion (EUR 880
million) sections of the M6 motorway and the M60 road near Pécs, southern Hungary.   Continue »

Property developer
TriGranit last week announced a major shopping mall project in Moscow and plan to build a
luxury holiday resort on the Montenegrin coast. The Moscow centre is projected to be 134,000 square metres
and be in operation by the second half of 2009. Continue »

Even before
the 9 March referendum it was clear that the result, despite not automatically
leading to the fall of the government or the prime minister, would have
political consequences. The government was forced to back down following its
unexpectedly punishing defeat, particularly on the question of healthcare
reform, an issue which has been at the top of the agenda in recent years. Continue »