Budapest, April 11 (MTI) – Frequently overcast, showers,
thunderstorms and even hail possible. North-westerly winds gusting
to high especially in western Hungary. The lowest night-time temperature will be between 9 and 14
degrees Celsius while the daytime highs will be between 15 and 20
degrees Celsius, the National Weather Service forecasts. Continue »

Budapest, April 11 (MTI) – Environment minister Gabor Fodor
officially opened a 1.4 billion forint (about 5.6m euros) waste
management facility in Kiskunhalas (E Hungary) on Friday.  Continue »

Budapest, April 11 – Hungary’s interests call for early
elections, Viktor Orban, head of the main opposition Fidesz party,
told reporters on Friday, following talks with President Laszlo
Solyom.  Continue »

Two groups of demonstrators – one
from the far right and numbering about 1,000, and one from left-wing
and mainstream society and numbering about 2,000 – ended their
official meeting near a ticket shop on Friday afternoon where they
locked horns in a double protest, MTI’s onsite correspondent
reported after 5pm local time.  Continue »

Budapest, April 11 (MTI) – Hungary’s March inflation figure
slowed to 6.7 percent from 6.9 percent in February, the Central
Statistical Office (KSH) said on Friday.  Continue »

Tallinn, April 10 (MTI) – Thanks to the simplicity and
transparency of the Estonian tax system, a high proportion of people
are willing to pay taxes and the bureaucracy level is low, said
liberal Free Democrat leader Janos Koka after meeting with Estonian
Prime Minister Andrus Ansip in Tallinn on Thursday.  Continue »

The Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) will not stop preparing its regular global
reports, the next one is due in 2014, chairman of IPCC Rajendra
Pachauri said on Thursday, at the closing of a four-day session held
in Budapest.  Continue »

Hungary must stick with its reform
programme and regain its international competitiveness, the head of the
Hungarian-Italian Chamber of Commerce told The Budapest Times last week just
before the organisation’s general meeting. Continue »

Small
conservative opposition party the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) last
Thursday said it would attempt to force the introduction of a flat tax after a
coalition split raised the prospect of a minority government.  Continue »