
Mayor announces cost-cutting measures
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony on Friday announced a series of measures aimed at reducing the municipal council's expenditures.
Budapest public transport runs at full capacity in peak hours
In line with a request by the Budapest government office, all public transport services of the Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) have been running at full capacity during morning and afternoon peak travel periods since mid-November, BKK said in reaction to complaints by the government ...
Ruling parties: George Soros guides the Hungarian left wing, too
US financier George Soros has set the direction of the Hungarian left wing as well as of European Union leaders: "first calling local sources of fake news brave, then backing a joint left-wing list of candidates", a KDNP MP said in the name of ...
DK urges EC to block Hungary from using Russian vaccine
The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) is calling on the European Commission to prevent the Hungarian government from "experimenting" on Hungarians with the Russian Covid vaccine, the party's MEP said at an online press conference on Saturday.

History in the making in Hungary and all around
90 years of photos to browse
One good way of spending some hours during the coronavirus pandemic is to see the Fortepan website, a copyright-free and community-based photograph archive currently holding 139,633 pictures in total, available for anyone to browse and download in high-resolution format with no charge.

Health-care system still has capacities, PM says
Orbán: Soros ‘threatening Hungary, Poland’
Financier George Soros, the "most corrupt man in today's international politics", is threatening Hungary and Poland, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a regular interview with public radio on Friday. Orbán insisted Soros had "many politicians on his payroll ... he is the corrupting ...

CoE: Bills would have detrimental effect on human rights if passed
The Council of Europe has called on Hungary's parliament to postpone voting on bills the government submitted last Friday, predicting "far-reaching detrimental effects" on human rights if they are adopted, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday.
New favipiravir delivery from China to arrive next week
Another million favipiravir pills will arrive from China next week, bringing the total number imported from China to 2.8 million, the foreign minister said in a statement on Friday, after speaking by phone with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

Opposition now sees a chance to "force migration on Hungary", minister says
Gulyas: Soros calls for financial sanctions against countries that refuse migrants
George Soros has called for financial sanctions against countries that refuse to take in migrants, the head of the Prime Minister's Office said. Gergely Gulyas told a regular press briefing that Hungary "cannot accept any form of lecturing" from the American-Hungarian financier.

DK calls on government not to 'test' Russian vaccine on Hungarians
Hungary takes delivery of Russian vaccine sample
A sample of Russia's coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Budapest, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday. Hungarian scientists will now begin examining the vaccine so that they can make an informed decision on its usage and approval, the minister said on Facebook.