Market services, farms aid GDP
GDP rose two percentage points year-on-year in Q3, a first reading of data by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) has shown. Market services and the farm sector contributed the most[…]
GDP rose two percentage points year-on-year in Q3, a first reading of data by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) has shown. Market services and the farm sector contributed the most[…]
Home prices hardly changed nationwide from the first to the second quarter, rising 4pc in Budapest and dropping elsewhere except for a 0.3pc increase in cities in north Hungary, home[…]
The business climate deteriorated slightly, a gauge of sentiment by the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Economy and Business Research Institute has shown, as it fell to 48 points[…]
About 50 Turkish and Kurdish students studying in Hungary gathered at Deak tér in downtown Budapest on Sunday to protest the Turkish government’s detention of journalists and opposition MPs. Sercan[…]
Hungarians work 32.6 years on average, data from Eurostat show. The country’s “duration of working life”, which measures the number of years a person aged 15 is expected to be[…]
Prices of resale homes in Budapest have now exceeded their level in 2008 by 25pc in nominal terms and about 2.6pc in real terms in Q1-Q2 2016, according to data[…]
The opposition Socialist Party favours the principle of preselecting candidates when it comes to election co-operation between left-wing forces, party leader Gyula Molnár has declared. Molnár said the co-operation should[…]
Hungary could increase its influence if international organisations relocating from the UK would find a home in Budapest, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga believes. Several organisations have their headquarters[…]
Two-thirds of Hungarians have called it unacceptable that some opposition supporters booed and hissed during Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech at the commemoration on October 23 of the 1956 anti-Soviet[…]
In a survey of 26 countries, Hungarians found their infrastructure the least satisfactory. Only 10 percent had a positive opinion of public services. In the fresh international survey involving 18,500[…]