Hungary

A joint European heritage is the source of identity and a token of the future, the culture and innovation minister said in Visegrad, in northern Hungary, on Wednesday, adding: "We will hail our Christian traditions even if Europe should forget about its roots."

According to a poll conducted at the time of the flood protection efforts in Hungary, the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats increased their lead while the popularity of the opposition Tisza party fell, the Nezopont Institute said on Wednesday.

Leader of the opposition Tisza Party Peter Magyar "had no ideas or convictions; he didn't want change in the country," the politician's former partner, Evelin Vogel, told news portal Index in an interview published on Wednesday, adding that people did not see the real ...

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said the West's initiative to form blocs, in response to developments in the global economy, was nothing more than "a return to Cold War logic" in a presentation delivered at the Ludovika University of Public Service in Budapest on Wednesday.

Bodies responsible for skills must adapt to changed economic and labour market conditions, a government official said at the opening of a two-day conference on the European Year of Skills held in Budapest on Wednesday.

European Union Affairs Minister Janos Boka said "European solutions" were necessary to strengthen the EU's competitiveness, ones that were supported by cultural, political and historical traditions, in a presentation delivered at a meeting of the heads of the Association of European Chambers of Commerce ...

Keeping the current balance of EU cohesion policy between social and regional cohesion funding is in Hungary's interest, Tibor Navracsics, the minister of public administration and regional development, told a roundtable on the future of the European Union, noting big regional differences in Hungary, ...

Hungary has defended itself, "and we've now proven to ourselves many times that Hungary can do this," Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview with commercial broadcaster TV2 on Tuesday evening. Orbán, who gave the interview after inspecting the flood defence work near ...

State-owned Hungarian railway company MAV signed a cooperation agreement with Austrian peer OBB at the InnoTrans international trade fair in Berlin on Tuesday.

Hungary's defence minister on Tuesday rejected what he called "attacks" by Peter Magyar, the leader of the opposition Tisza Party, against soldiers contributing to the flood defence efforts.