Budapest council

15/02/2021

Budapest pays more tax than govt support received, says Mayor Karácsony

"We are fulfilling numerous public tasks without any state support and we are paying extra to the government" #Budapest Mayor #Karácsony
13/02/2021

Budapest mayor turns to EC over European recovery fund

The #government insisted to the #EC that broad social dialogue in #Hungary was under way
12/02/2021

Budapest to begin upgrade of Danube embankments

The new plans include a wider sidewalk and a longer section of road with reduced #traffic
10/02/2021

Budapest mayor calls on govt to cooperate with local councils on EU recovery fund

"EP has obliged governments to consult local authorities on the use of the recovery funds"
08/02/2021

Orbán cabinet making it difficult for local councils to function, says leftist opposition

"The Hungarian government's cuts to funding for local councils is making it difficult for them to function"
08/02/2021

Budapest prepares ‘tourism reopening package’ to help hospitality industry

The lifting of coronavirus-related restrictions are expected in the spring⁉️
03/02/2021

Budapest mayor Expressing support for Navalny ‘moral obligation’

"Expressing support for Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is a "moral obligation"
30/01/2021

Budapest Mayor’s Office speculates government ‘working on stealthy Olympic bid’

"Plans based on old and obsolete data should be rethought and only projects that the capital and its residents need should be pursued" ???
21/01/2021

Magyar Nemzet: Budapest mayor to sell the capital’s assets

All properties are expected to be sold in 2021 ???️
21/01/2021

Budapest mayor: Biden’s inauguration speech holds message for Hungary

"We need to restore a #Hungary that belongs to all of its citizens"
20/01/2021

Fidesz Budapest group slams city leadership over ‘lost revenue’

Fidesz supports the French company's offer
18/01/2021

Budapest municipality to launch information campaign against Orbán cabinet measures

"We can join forces to make the government lift the austerity measures"
16/01/2021

Budapest mayor urges public service firms to look out for homeless as temperatures drop

What happens to the homeless during the curfew? ?? #hungary #health
15/01/2021

Mayor calls on government to compensate local councils for losses in business tax revenue

#Budapest is asking for compensation because it does not want to risk a drop in the quality of the public services it oversees
01/01/2021

Budapest mayor: New Year ‘a chance to start over’

"Budapest can't be defeated" Karácsony said ????
31/12/2020

Opposition declares objection to government’s treatment of local councils, epidemic response

The statement accuses the #government of "abandoning government responsibility in the hardest of times as well as millions of #Hungarians"
31/12/2020

Government: Hungarian health care proved world-class in pandemic

All accredited vaccines are incomparably less risky than the virus itself, Gulyás said ??
30/12/2020

Budapest Mayor Karácsony: Vaccine the only solution

"Governments, local councils, scientists and doctors must all focus their efforts on boosting trust in the vaccine"
30/12/2020

Budapest Fidesz group accuses city mayor of regarding citizens as no more than ‘means to power’

#Fidesz: #Karácsony's promises of transparency during his election campaign were hollow"
28/12/2020

The epidemic’s mortality rate was half the Hungarian average in Budapest, says Mayor Karácsony

"The Hungarian government does everything to gloss over data connected to the epidemic,"