Budapest, April 24 (MTI) – Following a night with clear skies,
the cloud cover will build on Friday, triggering scattered showers
in the west from about noon onward. Winds from the north will gust to about 40 km/h overnight but
die down towards morning. Nighttime lows should range from 1 to 6 degrees Celsius,
hitting the freeze point in some places, and daytime highs will be
between 16 and 20 degrees Celsius, the National Weather Service
reports. Continue »

Budapest, April 24 (MTI) – Household gas prices in Hungary will
go up by a total of 25-30 percent this year, compared to a 35
percent increase in 2007, economic research firm GKI told MTI on
Thursday. Continue »

Budapest, April 24 (MTI) – Two-thirds of working Hungarians
choose early retirement, which is the second highest proportion
among 26 countries surveyed by research firm GfK.  Continue »

Budapest, April 24 (MTI) – The New Ownership Program Council
proposed to the prime minister that the Motorway Management Company
AAK, Hungarian Electricity Works MVM, transmission-system operator
Mavir, lottery company Szerencsejatek and, later, postal service
Magyar Posta, be included in the government’s New Ownership Program,
the head of the council said.  Continue »

Budapest, April 24 (MTI) – Budapest’s Ferihegy International
Airport has started operating a terminal inspection service to
improve the quality of services, the operating company, Budapest
Airport (BA), told MTI on Thursday.  Continue »

Prague, April 24 (MTI) – Visegrad Four (V4) countries (Hungary,
Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland) support Ukraine and
Georgia’s bid to join NATO and Ukraine’s advancement in European
integration, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz told MTI after a
meeting of V4 foreign ministers in Prague on Thursday.  Continue »

The Hungarian Football Association
(MLSZ) has dismissed Peter Varhidi from his post as manager of
Hungary’s national eleven, the association’s president said on
Thursday during the break of a board meeting.  Continue »

The Hungarian partner of the Belgian
novelty restaurant Dinner in the Sky has held its first
demonstration, serving customers above Budapest’s Heroes’ Square.  Continue »

The upper house
of Bosnia’s parliament last Wednesday passed reforms regarding the country’s
ethnically divided police force aimed at speeding up the journey to joining the
EU. Continue »

Klára B. Soós was
last Monday named interior designer of the year for her work on the Cella
Septichora, an early Christian burial chapel in Pécs. Continue »