Hungary News Archives

CEU Convenes Global Conversation with Opinion Makers BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- George Soros on Monday delivered the first of a series of lectures that reflects the culmination of a lifetime of thinking on finance, politics, and open society.

MUNCIE -- Paul Hamori's wife, Jean, cooked him a delicious Hungarian dinner Friday, and baked him a wonderful Hungarian cake, all of which he washed down with a fine bottle of Hungarian wine.

Neither Slovaks nor Hungarians have officially submitted any reservations about the opt-out from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights demanded by Czech President Vaclav Klaus, for the time being, Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer said before the start of the EU summit today.

Hungary will decide whether it will veto the Czech opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, part of the Lisbon treaty, only during the talks of the EU summit starting in Brussels tonight, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balazs told CTK today.

European Union regulators said Thursday they would probe plans for Audi to receive a euro49.5 million subsidy from the Hungarian government to help the car maker upgrade a factory.

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Budapest- General Electric could lay off 2,570 workers at its Hungarian lighting division over the next two years, the US-based maker of electrical products and jet engines announced Wednesday.

A participant in the annual Rubik Cube Hungarian Open Championships attempts to solve a cube blindfolded in Budapest, Hungary.

The event, which organisers called 'the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history', marked 50 days until world leaders meet in Copenhagen to thrash out a new climate change treaty

Eastern Europe has become one of the fastest growing holiday destinations in the world.

Hungary is planning a law that would tax poker winnings and regulate clubs. With the country facing its worst economic crisis since the end of communism, the government is eager to cash in on this popular pastime.

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Police recovered the body Thursday of a man believed to have been part of a group of Kosovo Albanians who drowned while trying to illegally cross the Tisa River separating Serbia and Hungary.

Austere commemorations of Hungary's most import national holiday were overshadowed Friday by politicking and a rally by the far right.

At least 15 Kosovo Albanians drowned while trying to illegally cross a river into Hungary from Serbia, Kosovo's Foreign Affairs Ministry said Thursday.

Hungary is commemorating its crushed 1956 Revolution against Soviet domination and the 20th anniversary of its declaration as a republic and the end of communism.

Whilst the government does not have the ability to intervene directly in a dispute between a private company and a municipality, we must point out that similar irresponsible steps jeopardise over 60,000 jobs created by Frenchinvestors in Hungary, he added.

Most people do their traveling in the summer. After all, that's when school is out and when most places of employment allow for some R&R. However, summertime is often the most expensive time to travel.

Michael Korda is moved by Kati Marton's powerful memoir, Enemies of the People , about her parents' struggles under fascism and communism, their hidden Jewish identity, and Eastern Europe's weighty history.

The entire 15-person police force in Budaors, Hungary, quit their jobs after winning the lottery last week, according to the Telegraph .

Back-up police squads have been scrambled to a region of Hungary after its entire force quit following a lottery win.

President Boris Tadiae will spend Monday and Tuesday on an official visit to Hungary, it was announced.

In the presence of Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, Rainer Schmuckle, Chief Operating Officer of Mercedes-Benz Cars, and the project head for the new plant Michael Frie , this marked the start of construction work on the additional location.

FRANKFURT German carmaker Daimler AG started construction Friday on a new euro800 million car production facility in Kecskemet, Hungary, near Budapest, the company said.

Serbian President Boris Tadiae paid a visit to the Nikola Tesla primary and secondary Serb school in Budapest on Tuesday.

Harrah's Entertainment has attached its name to another international dream project.

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Reporting from Komarom, Hungary - The right-wing demonstrators have gathered here on the fringe of a long-lost empire, near the border with Slovakia, the banks of the Danube, along rusting train tracks that stretch northwest to Vienna.

Dr. Vassi Gardikas: 'I knew I was going to live' Dr. Vassi Gardikas had been operating on women with breast cancer for years, so it didn't really surprise her when she was diagnosed with the disease.

President Barack Obama has named a prominent Democratic fundraiser from Sacramento as ambassador to the Republic of Hungary.

Venezuela's Stefania Fernandez, 18, makes history, beating 82 competitors to win Miss Universe for her country's second consecutive victory.

An 88-year-old Australian man, listed in the top ten of most-wanted war criminals compiled by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is eligible for extradition to Hungary, an Australian court ruled on Thursday.

A sudden wave of refugee claimants arriving in Canadian airports from Hungary has resulted in the federal government calling on Budapest to take action - possibly against organized crime elements - to contain the soaring number of asylum-seekers, Canwest News Service has learned.

Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday exchanged messages of congratulation with his Hungarian counterpart Laszlo Solyom, Slovakian counterpart Ivan Gasparovic and Polish counterpart Jaroslaw Kaczynski to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between their countries.

Since the end of the Second World War, towns and cities around the UK have been joining forces with other places around the world in a show of international solidarity.

Australian Journalist of the Year and co-author with Andrew Rule of the Underbelly books that begat Nine's hit drama - remembers the chilling moment when he got that phone call.

United Nations delegates, meeting in Budapest, Hungary, have demanded better coordination in natural disasters such as the recent earthquake in Indonesia.

Toronto News.Net Saturday 3rd October, 2009 Toronto, October 3 : Archaeologists have found a cellar in the university town of Pecs in southern Hungary, which they believe to have belonged to Wallachian Duke Vlad III, more commonly known as "Dracula." According to a report in the Digital Journal, Tamas Fedeles, tutor of medieval and early modern ...

Japanese vehicle parts maker Denso is laying off 730, almost one in five, workers at its Hungarian plant, the firm said on Thursday.

Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania will host a 500-million-euro pioneering laser facility with a wide range of advanced scientific applications, Hungary said Thursday.

A stomach bug has forced Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to cancel a luncheon with Hungarian president Laszlo Solyom.