Education
Minister István Hiller last week pledged an extra HUF 135 billion (EUR 531.78
million) in funding to upgrade the education system next year, with the lion’s
share of the money coming from EU funds. Continue »

Budapest, April 21 (MTI) – Cloudy skies alternating with sunny
spells. Showers and thunderstorms are expected. South-westerly winds
will gust to high. Lowest night-time temperatures will be between 6 and 11 degrees
Celsius and day-time highs are expected to be between 17 and 22
degrees, the National Weather Service forecasts. Continue »

Baia Mare, Romania, April 21 (MTI) – Spanish motorcyclist Marc
Coma, who won the motorcycles first stage of the Central Europe
Rally, had to throw in the towel on Monday after falling twice and
injuring his knee.  Continue »

Budapest, April 21 (MTI) – US financier George Soros called for
changing the nature of investments per se to combat climate change,
speaking at the opening of a conference organised by the Centre for
Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP), in Budapest on
Monday.  Continue »

Budapest, April 21 (MTI) – Hungary wants to win investors with
its performance not by being the cheapest country in the region or
offering low taxes, said Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany in Budapest
on Monday, after meeting with North Rhine-Westphalia
Minister-President Jurgen Ruttgers.  Continue »

Hungary’s main challenges regarding
organised crime are customs offences, human smuggling and money
laundering, Director of the European Police Office (Europol)
Max-Peter Ratzel told the press on Monday, at the start of a two-day
Europol conference in Budapest.  Continue »

Budapest, April 21 (MTI) – Coca-Cola Hungary has started up a
new aseptic production line, which it plans to use for iced tea and
fruit-based beverages, manufactured without the use of
preservatives, wrote Monday’s national business paper Vilaggazdasag.  Continue »

Budapest, April 21 (MTI) – The Hungarian population decline
slowed in the first two months of the year as the birth rate was up
and the death rate down, the Central Statistical Office – KSH –
reported on Monday.  Continue »

Budapest, April 21 (MTI) – Hungarian and Bavarian state
officials signed an agreement on returning 265 tonnes of German
waste illegally dumped in Hungary, the environment ministry reported
on Monday Continue »

Budapest, April 21 (MTI) – Animal Island, a complex including an
animal shelter housing 120 dogs, a petting zoo that is home to
goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits, and pigeons, and most recently a
retired police horse, and an obedience school, is the outcome of a
20-year effort by a Budapest veterinarian, wrote Monday’s national
daily Magyar Nemzet.  Continue »