Hungary

A government decision to freeze retail mortgage rates until the end of next June could save Hungarian households 30 billion forints (EUR 81.3m), Csaba Domotor, a Prime Minister's Office parliamentary state secretary, said on Thursday.

The European Union's freezing reconstruction funds for Hungary is "not connected in any way" to the country's passing anti-paedophilia legislation, Socialist MEP Istvan Ujhelyi said on Wednesday.

If the united opposition wins next spring's general election and forms Hungary's next government, LMP as a member of it will press for restoring the autonomy of the country's universities, the party's group leader said on Wednesday.

Katalin Novak, the minister in charge of family affairs, has announced that she will step down effective Dec. 31, after being nominated as Hungary's next president.

The government will continue its efforts against the coronavirus pandemic based on the vaccination of residents, the prime minister said on Tuesday. Viktor Orbán also announced that Hungary stands by its border protection practices and it would "not allow in anyobody".

Ruling Fidesz has nominated Katalin Novak, the minister for family affairs, for Hungary's next president, Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Tuesday.

The government is obliged to defend Hungary's constitutional identity, even if doing so clashes with a recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, Viktor Orbán wrote on Monday in an article published on the Prime Minister's website entitled "Samizdat 15".

The project of building two new blocks to the Paks nuclear power plant is being implemented as planned so that they be able to start operations in 2029-2030, Aleksandr Merten, the deputy head of Rosatom-auxiliary ASE engineering, told a panel discussion in Budapest on ...

The key question at the parliamentary election next spring will be whether Hungary remains faithful to its thousand-year-old past or gives up its sovereignty, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Monday, in a post on Facebook based on her interview to Italian daily La ...

The public media's charity programme dubbed Good to be good has raised funds totalling 345 million forints (EUR 939,000), the sum to be donated to the Regoczi Fundation, set up by President Janos Ader and First Lady Anita Herczegh to support children who lost ...