Hungarian fans told The Budapest Report, that they look forward to participating in the so-called 2010 Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race in South Africa.
The world football governing body has come to the defence of the Republic of South Africa, the country that was accused by many British and German football fans of being the “unsafest place on Earth.”
The Hungarian Constitutional Court (AB) on Tuesday repealed the ‘wealth tax’ bill, threatening family budgets across Hungary.
The number of jobless worldwide reached nearly 212 million in 2009 following an unprecedented increase of 34 million compared to 2007.
Foreign Minister Peter Balazs and Hungarian Chamber of Commerce President Laszlo Parragh signed an agreement on Jan 22. The Ministry in a statement stated the deal will increase cooperation between foreign policy and businesses, due to the demands of a changing global economy.
Bajnai said Hungary’s growth rate must exceed the EU average by two percentage points if the country is to be competitive.
The Hungarian arm of the Multinational Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) has conducted a humanitarian relief mission to Haiti on 18 January 2010.
Finance Minister Peter Oszko claimed that Hungary could avoid further IMF assistance.
Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis said the U.S. Administration believes Hungarian measures to reinvigorate the economy have been successful.
Hungarian civil activist group Smokebusters (Fustirtok) claims the case of corruption could cost more than HUF 5 billion.
South African civil rights interest group AfriForum has acquired permission to initiate legal action against the Zimbabwean government.
Millions of people are homeless in one of the world’s poorest countries, according to officials in Haiti.
South Africa’s Gautrain, the official railway line catering for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, has started test runs.
Fans of South Africa’s most celebrated rugby team, the Blue Bulls, are raging mad and seeing red, following the latest political inclination to blacken the name of the team.
Center-right Fidesz MEP Eniko Gyori questioned Competition Commissioner Joachim Almunia’s political independence, at an EP hearing.
Investment and Trade Developement Agency (ITD Hungary) CEO Gyorgy Retfalvi was dismissed with immediate effect by the Hungarian Economic Minister.
The title of ‘European Cultural Capital’, which migrates annually from town to town, was created 25 years ago. It arrived to Southern Hungarian Pecs on Sunday, as a gala event drew thousands to celebrate the inauguration of the “Borderless City,” into its new role of spearheading European cultural exchange. Addressing the ceremony, Hungarian Prime Minister [...]
Unemployment is soaring, while deficit statistics could be planting a sense of false security, according to economist Laszo Csaba.
U.S. Embassy Budapest announced a fellowship program for multiply disadvantaged people, in a recent press release.
Up to 80 percent of involuntary patients, undergoing forced treatment in Hungary, have committed violent crimes.
Politics Can be Different (LMP) is the new umbrella organization for Hungarian liberal voters, according to several political analysts.
Striking bus drivers pressured Budapest Transport Limited (BKV) by refusing to accept working conditions in their vehicles.
