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WEB1 day ago · Written by BT/MTI. The stakes in a United States presidential election have never been as high as they are now, Balazs Orban, the Hungarian prime minister's political director, said in a keynote address to an international geopolitical summit in Budapest on Tuesday. World. 17. September 2024.
Hungary must reform legislation on lifelong prison sentences, CoE …
WEB4 hours ago · The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on Friday called on Hungary to align legislation on lifelong prison sentences with the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights without delay. 20. September 2024 18:52. At its latest quarterly meeting to supervise the implementation of rulings from the Court, the committee has said it ...
World Press Photo exhibition opens in Budapest’s Biodome
WEB18 hours ago · September 2024 5:01. Joumana El Zein Khoury, the executive director of the World Press Photo Foundation, noted at the event that Budapest has hosted the exhibition for 48 years. Gergely Karacsony, the mayor of Budapest, said the photographs depicted an undeniable reality that encouraged people to “get to grips with future challenges” while ...
Defence Minister: Strong defence industry key to peace
WEB4 hours ago · There is a need for peace in Europe, and for this a strong defence industry is key, the defence minister told a conference in Budapest on Friday. 20. September 2024 18:49. Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky said Europe was facing new challenges even as its defence capabilities and defence industry capacities were ailing.
Boosting transport sector's competitiveness in focus at meeting in ...
WEB4 hours ago · Hungary. 20. September 2024 18:50. At the start of the meeting, Construction and Transportation Minister Janos Lazar warned that if Europe failed to improve its competitiveness, it would fall “significantly behind” America and China. He said the most important goal of Hungary’s presidency of the Council of the EU was to bolster ...
Orbán: Peak flood expected to leave Hungary by mid-next week
WEB1 day ago · Orbán: Peak flood expected to leave Hungary by mid-next week. The flood of the Danube is expected to peak in Budapest on Saturday night, and the brunt of the wave will pass Hungary by the middle of next week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a press conference on Thursday morning, on the seventh day of flood prevention. 19.
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WEB4 days ago · Written by BT/MTI. Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony called for transforming cities in the interest of putting up an effective fight against climate change and adapting to the new situation, on the occasion of the start of the European Mobility Week environmental campaign on Monday. Hungary. 16. September 2024.
Szijjarto: Paks II shows nuclear cooperation could return 'rationality ...
WEB4 days ago · Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said Hungary's Paks II nuclear power plant project was a good example of how nuclear cooperation could bring back "rationality and common sense", as well as hope for "a peaceful coexistence", to global politics, addressing the general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Monday.
Budapest mayor calls for transforming cities for fight against …
WEB4 days ago · Written by BT/MTI. Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony called for transforming cities in the interest of putting up an effective fight against climate change and adapting to the new situation, on the occasion of the start of the European Mobility Week environmental campaign on Monday. Hungary. 16. September 2024 15:40.
Szijjarto: Hungary hopes desire for peace can overcome 'war …
WEBMay 22, 2024 · Addressing a panel discussion at the Global Energy Security Talks conference, Peter Szijjarto said that with Hungary having “lost forty years” under oppression from the East and after being “neglected” by the West during the Cold War, its government was “super concerned” about the potential re-emergence of geopolitical blocs.