Hungary

President Janos Ader discussed the environmental impact of the development on Lake Ferto, in northwest Hungary, where the government is funding the development of sports and touristic facilities in his Blue Planet (Kek Bolygo) podcast on Monday.

Skilled labour has a future in Hungary, and "those with knowledge, skills and the courage to use them will have nothing to fear in harder times," Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his opening address at the 15th festival for vocational schools in Budapest ...

The Hungary Helps Programme and Hungarian Interchurch Aid have sent direct aid to Bosnia and Herzegovina after the southern European country was hit by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake last week, the Prime Minister's Office said on Monday.

Bertalan Toth, the co-leader of the Socialists, will not seek his post again at a party congress in the autumn, the opposition politician said on Facebook on Sunday.

Hungary's left wing is "still on the side of war and risks dragging Hungary into this horrible conflict", Tamas Deutsch, who heads Fidesz's group in the European Parliament, said in an interview with public radio on Sunday.

The Hungarian government is following closely the "unusual" events in Slovakia's domestic politics, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told MTI on Saturday.

The "democratic opposition parties" have decided that the parliamentary mandate returned by Peter Marki-Zay, the former prime ministerial candidate of the allied opposition, will be go to Noemi Vegh of Jobbik, the Socialists said on Saturday.

Gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Budakeszi, on the outskirts of the capital, were vandalised early Saturday.

Hungary responds to the challenges to its sovereignty and traditions by strengthening its Christian traditions, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said in Gyor, in northwest Hungary, on Friday.

The upgrade of the Hungarian armed forces will continue with the purchase of a set of new turbofan aircraft, the government said on Friday.