Adrienn Sain
Hungary fines half a million motorists for driving without vignette
Budapest, June 20 (MTI) – NUSZ, the company that operates Hungary’s motorway toll system, fined 516,000 motorists a total 4.5 billion forints (EUR 14.4m) for driving without a vignette last year, business daily Világgazdaság said on Monday. About two-thirds of…
Vona: coalition with left-wing partners “fiction”
Budapest, June 20 (MTI) – Suggestions about the radical nationalist Jobbik party entering into a technical coalition with leftist parties to replace ruling Fidesz are “fiction, distorted figments of imagination”, Jobbik leader Gábor Vona told national daily Magyar Hírlap. Jobbik…
Liberals: Talented youth leaving Hungary ‘worrying’
Budapest, June 19 (MTI) – The Hungarian Liberal Party said it was worrying that the most talented and wealthiest 18-year-olds are leaving Hungary to go to university abroad. Anett Bősz, the party’s spokesperson, told a press conference on Sunday that…
Hungary government campaigning against Brexit
Budapest, June 19 (MTI) – The Hungarian government will place an advertisement in the British press on Monday to encourage UK voters to support their country remaining a member of the European Union in the upcoming referendum on the subject,…
Socialists to focus on social issues in election campaign
Budapest, June 19 (MTI) – The opposition Socialist Party wants to focus on education, health care, child welfare, seniors and anti-graft efforts and the party’s candidates for leadership are on the same platform regarding these aims, the incumbent party leader…
Lázár: Successful integration of savings coops ‘important’ goal
Budapest, June 19 (MTI) – The government considers the successful integration of the country’s savings cooperatives as an important goal, János Lázár, the government office chief, said at a weekly news briefing on Thursday. Lázár made the comment in response…
EURO 2016: Bernd Storck – We deserved a draw
Hungary’s national team coach believes that his side primarily secured a draw against Iceland thanks to their fighting spirit. “I’d like to congratulate my team; they never for a moment gave up the fight and they deserve to be a…
LMP calls for less dependence on vehicle sector, EU funds
Budapest, June 19 (MTI) – The government should reduce the Hungarian economy’s dependence on the vehicle sector and European Union subsidies, the deputy parliamentary group leader of the opposition LMP party said on Saturday. Economy Minister Mihály Varga recently said…
House Speaker encourages voters to support anti-quota referendum
Budapest, June 18 (MTI) – House Speaker László Kövér has encouraged Hungary’s voters to cast their ballot in the government-initiated referendum aimed at thwarting the European Union’s migrant quota system. Speaking before a closed forum in south-western Hungary’s Nagykanizsa on…
MTVA concludes broadcast agreement for Olympics
Budapest, June 18 (MTI) – Hungary’s public media fund MTVA has concluded an agreement for public media to broadcast summer and winter Olympics between 2018 and 2024. The MTVA called the agreement “historic” in significance and said in a statement…