Hungary News
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AFGHANISTAN, 2017/09/09
Destinations worldwide welcomed 598 million international tourists in the initial six months of 2017, some 36 million additional than in the same period of 2016. At 6%, increase was well above the trend of recent years, making the current January-June period the strongest half-year since 2010.
Visitor numbers reported by destinations around the world reflect strong request for international travel in the initial half of 2017, according to the new UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. Worldwide, international tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) increased by 6% compared to the same six-month period last year, well above the sustained and consistent trend of 4% or higher increase since 2010. This represents the strongest half-year in seven years.
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HUNGARY, 2017/09/05
The Hungarian government is building a visual surveillance system capable of collecting secret data, the ombudsman for personal data protection Attila Peterfalvi said here on Monday.
Following the presentation of the bill by the Ministry of the Interior last week, Peterfalvi, president of the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Data (NAIH), spoke on commercial radio Klubradio that "The bill would entrust records of images and sounds made by various authorities to a central data storage organization, treating them uniformly."
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HUNGARY, 2017/09/05
Hungarian trade surplus reached 5.4 billion euros (6.37 billion U.S. dollars) in the fist six months of 2017, reaching the same level as in the initial half of 2016, Hungarian central statistical office KSH said in a statement Tuesday in Budapest.
Exports reached 51 billion euros (60.18 billion dollars), whereas imports amounted to 45.6 billion euros (53.8 billion dollars) in the initial half of the year, according to KSH.
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HUNGARY, 2017/09/04
Hungary's gross domestic product (GDP) slowed to 3.2 % year on year in the second quarter of 2017, from 4.2 % in the initial quarter, according to a preliminary estimate released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) here on Wednesday.
Market-based services contributed the majority to increase in the second quarter, KSH said.
The volume of GDP rose by 3.7 % in the initial half of 2017 compared to a year before, KSH added.
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HUNGARY, 2017/09/04
Budapest has recalled its ambassador in the Hague for consultations, and the diplomatic ties of ambassador level will be suspended between the two nations for an undetermined period, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said on Friday.
"This is one of the majority radical measures in diplomacy," Szijjarto told reporters.
Budapest has recalled its ambassador in the Hague next the outgoing Dutch Ambassador to Hungary Gajus Scheltema harshly criticized the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the political opposition weekly 168 ora (168 hours) issued on Thursday.
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HUNGARY, 2017/09/04
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban confirmed here on Monday that the construction of a new Hungarian power plant "Paks 2" would start next January.
"The construction of the new nuclear power plant Paks 2 can begin in January," said Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto following the Putin-Orban conference. "Nothing can stop it presently," he added
Putin and Orban attended the initial day of the 2017 World Judo Championships, that started here Monday. The two leaders met in the venue of the competition, and discussed ongoing bilateral issues, such as the construction of the new nuclear power plant and other economic topics.
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ALBANIA, 2017/08/27
The European gas market is becoming additional and additional competitive and US exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are part of this landscape, Francis Perrin, energy expert, chairman of Energy Strategies and Policies (France) told Trend.
“Energy is always a strategic business. Economic aspects are very significant of course, particularly the price of LNG, but nations as well take into account strategic issues. For some Central and Eastern European nations one of the key priorities of their energy policies is the diversification of their supplies, in particular gas imports, in order to reduce their dependence on Russia,” said the expert.
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ESTONIA, 2017/07/29
The Commission for Environment, Energy and Climate Change (ENVE) of the European Committee of the Regions met in Tallinn today under the auspices of the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The Committee is the EU’s assembly of cities and regions. Its mandate is to contribute to EU policy-making and legislation through what are known as 'opinions', which gather recommendations based on the competencies and expertise local and regional authorities have, in a wide range of policy areas.
The topics of the environment and climate change were on top of the schedule today in Tallinn Creative Hub (Kultuurikatel).
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ISRAEL, 2017/07/18
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that his country stood firmly against anti-Semitism today next the "crime" of failing to protect its Jewish citizens during World War Two.
Netanyahu, whose visit to Budapest has been overshadowed by Orban's flirtation with the radical right that has unnerved Hungarian Jews, responded by praising Hungary as a key ally of Israel as it faces growing hostility around the world.
Netanyahu's two-day trip comes less than a month next Orban praised Hungary's interwar leader Miklos Horthy, a Hitler ally, and used an image of Jewish U.S. financier George Soros in an anti-immigration billboard campaign.
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HUNGARY, 2017/07/18
Thank you, Prime Minister Orbán, for this very warm welcome. I am honored to be the initial Israeli sitting prime minister to have an official visit to Hungary. It’s completely astounding that it didn’t happen before. It’s about time. And it’s wonderful to be here on this initial time.
At the same time as I come to Hungary, the initial thing I think about, before anything else, is that Hungary was the, in a lot of ways, the birth of modern Zionism, the movement that led to the establishment of the modern Jewish national because in Hungary was born our modern Moses, Theodore Herzl. And I intend to visit on this visit the site of his home. It is probably inconceivable to think of the Jewish national, the National of Israel today, if it weren’t for that man born here in 1860, who envisioned the rebirth of the Jewish national and who saw in his mind’s-eye as well the great challenges that would be posed anti-Semitism. He thought that this from presently on was the best solution for the Jewish people.
