Budapest, April 27 (MTI) – The Alstom case involving the French engineering company’s transfer of some 597,000 euros to a consultancy owned by former prime minister Péter Medgyessy’s family in 2007-2008 should be considered by parliament’s economic committee, ruling Fidesz…
Budapest, April 27 (MTI) – A large portion of 597,000 euros French engineering company Alstom paid in 2007-2008 to a consultancy owned by former prime minister Peter Medgyessy ended up on the bank account of his wife, daily Magyar Idok…
Budapest, April 26 (MTI) – French engineering company Alstom transferred more than 597,000 euros to a company owned by the family of Hungary’s former prime minister, Péter Medgyessy, in 2007 and 2008, daily Magyar Idők said on Tuesday. The paper…
Origo.hu reports that since the European Union was joined by Eastern European countries, the number of Hungarian people in London got doubled. Apart from Eastern Europe, most of the job seekers go to Britain from south of the Euro-zone. They leave their countries…
Iain Lindsay, British Ambassador to Hungary, surprised the world on 11 April, which is the National Poetry Day in Hungary, by reading one of Attila József’s poems, mno.hu writes. Hungary celebrates the National Poetry day on 11 April since 1964.…
Iain Lindsay, the new British ambassador to Hungary, spent a month at the Debrecen Summer University, learning about Hungarian language and culture, haon.hu reports. The ambassador took over 100 Hungarian lessons as well as trips to Hortobágy and Eger. He…
Budapest, March 10 (MTI) – Hungary’s government has so far concluded strategic cooperation agreements with three British companies and started talks with a further two, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday. The three strategic partners concerned are Tesco, Unilever…
London (MTI) – Dovish signals from Hungary’s central bank are heralding a new rate cutting cycle, London-based emerging markets economists said on Wednesday. In a report highlighting key findings of a recent visit to Hungary, analysts at BofA Merrill Lynch…
Budapest, March 1 (MTI) – Some 76 members of Hungary’s Hunor rescue team left on Tuesday for an exercise in London where they will be deployed at a simulated underground accident. Head of the national disaster management authority Tibor Tollár…
The New Generation Centre has opened an office and talent centre in London on 17 February, where Katalin Novák, Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs from the Ministry of Human Capacities was also present, reports edupress.hu. After twenty such…
According to blikk.hu, a junior doctor can earn HUF 9.5 million (EUR 30,640) in a year in Bristol, UK. Dr. Bálint Hargitai – a Hungarian anesthesiologist working in Bristol – told that the hospital he works in is very clean, and…
More than 2000 Hungarian students are applying for the best universities in Britain and more and more can manage to actually get in, hvg.hu reports. While a growing number of Hungarians leave the country, since years we can see that…
According to index.hu, György Kovásznai was one of the best and most unique Hungarian animation painters in the 20th century, but the communism ignored him. A lot of people started to discover him after an exhibition showed his oeuvre in the…
London, February 8 (MTI) – The collapse of the Schengen system of open borders risks plunging Europe into fresh economic turmoil, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told conservative British paper The Daily Telegraph on Sunday. “If the Schengen zone is going…
London, February 4 (MTI) – The international community’s efforts to resolve the Syria crisis have so far failed, so migration pressure on Europe cannot be expected to ease soon, the foreign minister told journalists in London on Thursday. Péter Szijjártó,…
Budapest, February 4 (MTI) – A unified position of the Visegrad Four is needed in connection with the UK’s reform package put forward to the European Union, government office chief Janos Lázár said. The government is prepared to hold talks…
Budapest, February 4 (MTI) – Hungary aims to contribute to Syria’s reconstruction process by building and operating hospitals there, a government resolution published in the latest issue of the official gazette Magyar Közlöny shows. The government is planning to allocate…
Budapest, February 2 (MTI) – Opposition Socialist deputy leader and MEP István Újhelyi called on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Tuesday to give details of any backroom deal he may have made with British Premier David Cameron. A first “working…
According to vg.hu, the British government could refuse social care in cases of workers coming from other EU states with immediate effect. The European Commission made a new proposal in connection with the reform needs of the United Kingdom. It…
London, January 22 (MTI) – Relics of Saint Thomas of Canterbury held in Esztergom in northern Hungary will be displayed in the United Kingdom between May 23 and 29, Hungarian Ambassador Peter Szabadhegy said on Friday. President Janos Ader, Cardinal…