Hungary

In an article published in the Financial Times on Tuesday on the occasion of Hungary's assuming the European Union's rotating presidency, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán elaborated on the topic of restoring the EU's competitiveness.

The government is planning to add over 100 new chargers to Hungary's public network serving electric vehicles across the country, the economy ministry said on Tuesday.

Viktor Orbán, Hungary's prime minister, arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday, and he will have talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president, the prime minister's press chief said in a statement.

The greatest opportunity in Hungary's European Union presidency will be a chance "to take Europe closer to peace", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview broadcast on Hungarian public television on Monday.

Hungarians have often been "spared misfortune" by the "valour" of sovereignty, President Tamas Sulyok said in Brussels on Monday.

Hungary's gas reserves stand currently at 5 billion cubic metres, or 78 percent of full capacity, comfortably above the European Union's requirement to fill reserves to 65 percent by July 1, the energy ministry said on Monday.

The Hungarian presidency of the European Union will aim to launch negotiations on EU space law, the foreign ministry's commissioner for space research said on Monday.

Online fraud cases have gone down by 30 percent in the past six months owing to new legal and police measures, an official said on Monday.

In line with a government decision aimed at further boosting Hungary's economic growth, the National Economy Ministry is preparing two action plans by Sept 30 on further supporting the domestic SME and tourism sectors, Marton Nagy, the minister, said on Monday.

Boosting European competitiveness will be the main focus of Hungary's EU presidency, Janos Boka, the EU affairs minister, told public radio in an interview on Sunday.