Budapest, May 15 (MTI) – Nuclear energy in Hungary should play a
role in the future and its contribution must be evaluated, the
environment minister told MTI on Thursday.

Budapest, May 8 (MTI) – Five hundred cave scientists and
environmentalists signed a petition against a project to convert a
former Turkish bath in western Budapest into a spa hotel, national
daily Nepszabadsag reported on Thursday.

Budapest, April 29 (MTI) – The government adopted new elements
for financing general practitioners, including incentives to
encourage them to check whether their patients are insured, head of
the National Health Insurance Fund (OEP) and health minister
designate Tabas Szekely told MTI on Tuesday.

Budapest, April 28 (MTI) – Speaker of the New Zealand House of
Representatives Margaret Wilson met her Hungarian counterpart
Katalin Szili in Budapest on Monday and discussed matters concerning
minority government, challenges of climate change and environmental
protection.

Budapest, April 21 (MTI) – US financier George Soros called for
changing the nature of investments per se to combat climate change,
speaking at the opening of a conference organised by the Centre for
Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP), in Budapest on
Monday.

Budapest, April 21 (MTI) – Hungarian and Bavarian state
officials signed an agreement on returning 265 tonnes of German
waste illegally dumped in Hungary, the environment ministry reported
on Monday

Budapest, April 21 (MTI) – Parliament will focus on genetically
modified products on Monday, voting on a number of related issued. Among other things, the draft calls for increasing funding for
GMO impact studies, tightening up controls and establishing
authorities that will focus on the health repercussions of
genetically modified products.

Budapest, April 17 (MTI) – Priorities for the government’s
traffic policy for the next few years include offering residents
incentives to buy environment-friendly vehicles or to choose public
transportations as well as to build up the transportation
infrastructure, Lajos Szucs, department head at the Ministry of
Economy and Transportation, said on Thursday.