As organised crime groups in Hungary continued to
increase over the last year, the tension and rivalry between them is
expected to amplify, which eventually could lead to a rise in violent
crime, the director of the National Security Office Sándor Laborc said
last week. Continue »

The month of May will get off to a culinary start in
Budapest: between Thursday, 30 April and Sunday, 3 May there will be
the chance to taste wines and champagnes and to discover that trappista
is not the last word in Hungarian cheese at the Millenáris Park.  Continue »

“The greatest risk for the Hungarian banking system is
if the current crisis becomes even more pronounced than previously
thought,” National Bank of Hungary (MNB) governor András Simor said
last Thursday at the AGM of the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry
and Commerce. Continue »

Parliament last Monday passed a law with 199 votes for
and 159 against, which allows same sex couples to register their
partnership in a court of a law. Continue »

In many respects the programme released by the interim
government of experts lead by Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai contains
little new. Firstly, the Bajnai government is expressly continuing the
spending cut plans of the last period of the Hungarian Socialist Party
(MSZP) government. Secondly, the crisis management plan follows the
path of earlier programmes put forth by his predecessor Ferenc
Gyurcsány.  Continue »