WHO has expressed satisfaction with Hungary's purchase of the necessary protective equipment, minister says
Szijjarto: WHO satisfied with Hungary’s handling of pandemic
It is clear that the World Health Organisation (WHO) appreciates the measures the Hungarian government has taken so far to combat the coronavirus pandemic and is satisfied with the way the country handled the first wave, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after talks with ...
Drama, film theatre leadership to consider university ‘student republic’ terminated
The new leadership of Budapest's University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) issued a statement on Tuesday, saying that they henceforth considered the "student republic", an alternative educational model established by striking teachers and students within the university walls, to be "terminated with immediate ...
Employers’ association rejects municipal council’s new tax proposal to reboot economy
National employer federation MGYOSZ on Tuesday rejected a proposal by the Budapest municipal council to increase the business tax in an effort to help reboot the economy.
First Hungarian patients receive domestically produced Remdesivir
The first few Hungarian patients have received doses of the domestically manufactured Covid-19 drug Remdesivir at the clinic of Debrecen University, the university's press office said on Tuesday.
US ambassador addresses conference on CE Europe
Freedom of religion and speech are genetically ingrained for Americans, US Ambassador David B. Cornstein told an international conference in Budapest focusing on central and eastern Europe and religion on Tuesday.
Szijjarto: "This is an act of revenge against us for blocking the EU's unified position in support of the UN's global migration compact"
EU proposal to scrap unanimity requirement for foreign policy decisions ‘dangerous’, minister says
A new European Union proposal under which the bloc's foreign policy decisions would no longer require unanimous support from member states is "dangerous" from Hungary's perspective and "completely goes against" the EU treaties, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after meeting his EU counterparts in ...
Budapest protest against disputed President Lukashenko
Women around world show support for Belarus
Women have pushed themselves to the forefront of the ongoing opposition protests against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko both at home and abroad, and a “Women are Power!” demonstration was held in support outside Hungary’s Parliament Building on October 10.
It is not expected that elective operations will have to be postponed in the next three weeks, PM says
Orbán sees Covid crisis lasting until mid-2021
As the likelihood of a vaccine against the coronavirus appearing before mid-2021 is small, "we Hungarians will have to endure it ... until June or July," Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview. Speaking to public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, Orbán also commented on ...
Manufacture of Covid drug Remdesivir under way in Hungary
Domestic manufacture of the Covid-19 drug Remdesivir is under way in Hungary, with pharmaceutical company Richter having manufactured enough clinical trial doses in the initial phase to treat some 250 patients, the innovation and technology ministry said.
Mi Hazank deputy leader shreds another children’s book over ‘homosexual propaganda’
Dora Duro, the deputy leader of the radical non-parliamentary Mi Hazank (Our Homeland) party, on Friday shredded another children's book which she claimed contained "homosexual propaganda".
