PM Viktor Orbán sought to paint Hungary as a maverick pioneer after the EU summit in Brussels last Friday. A new focus on the need to stimulate growth vindicated the government’s unorthodox economic policies, he claimed, saying bank taxes and a levy on transactions are now on the European agenda. It has also become widely… Continue »

Parliament’s smallest opposition party, the green-liberal LMP, has successfully called on the support of Socialist and Jobbik MPs to secure the necessary amount of signatures for setting up a committee to examine the affairs of state railway company MÁV. “So unless the government plans to use some tricks to avoid the creation of this committee… Continue »

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has requested the help of the United States Congress to eliminate anti-Semitic assistance coming from America. Orbán was responding to a letter sent in June by 50 members of Congress to express their deep concern over “anti-Semitic and homophobic positions espoused by members of the Jobbik party”, and asking him to… Continue »

Hungary will be looking for ways of delivering Azeri gas to the west through Central Europe, the state secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office in charge of external relations said on Saturday during Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to Azerbaijan. Speaking in the capital Baku, Péter Szijjártó said Orbán believes Hungary and Europe must diversify… Continue »

Austrian-owned candy manufacturer PEZ has asked the city of Jánossomorja to increase the area of its industrial park so the company can expand its factory. PEZ is planning to move production of gummy candy from Austria, which would create 30 to 40 jobs. Continue »

The wheat harvested so far this year is less but better quality than 12 months ago, the Association of Cereal Harvesters announced on Wednesday. The 2012 wheat harvest is estimated to produce 3.4-3.5 million tons, against 4.03 million tons last year. Continue »

Visitors at the Szépmûvészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts) can get to grips with ancient Egypt thanks to the popular Hands On! project. Izabella Csordás is the head of visitor services and has been in charge of the project since it began in September 2010. “The programme gives very special experiences and visitors can understand… Continue »