Budapest, April 11 (MTI) – Environment minister Gabor Fodor
officially opened a 1.4 billion forint (about 5.6m euros) waste
management facility in Kiskunhalas (E Hungary) on Friday.

Budapest, April 8 (MTI) – President Laszlo Solyom visited a
waste management centre in Pusztazamor, 20 kilometres west of
Budapest, on Tuesday morning, the last day of his three-day
ecological tour of Hungary.

Budapest, April 7 (MTI) – President Laszlo Solyom, a committed
advocate of environmental protection, is paying a three-day visit to
the Danube-Ipoly National Park, along the Slovak border in N
Hungary, accompanied by First Lady Erzsebet Solyom.

Budapest, April 5 (MTI) – The Hungarian Hospice Foundation (HSF)
organised a public walk at Budapest’s Margaret Island on Tuesday to
call attention to the terminally ill people and the dignity of life
and death.

Budapest, April 2 (MTI) – A joint Hungarian-French environment
protection month was opened at Budapest’s French Institute on
Wednesday.

Budapest, April 1 (MTI) – Outgoing Health Minister Agnes Horvath
proposed on Tuesday extra funding for GPs, improved competition
between healthcare services and ways to fight the system of
under-the-counter gratuity payments to doctors from patients.

Budapest, April 1 (MTI) – Foresters have partially blocked Route
41 in north-east Hungary to protest against slow subsidy procedures,
MTI learnt on Tuesday.

Budapest, March 31 (MTI) – A lawsuit initiated by the Hungarian
government against a Romanian firm responsible for a devastating
cyanide spill that wiped out the ecological systems on a major
waterway in 2000 continued in Budapest on Monday, though the
defendant refused to attend.

Budapest, March 28 (MTI) – Hungarian innovation prizes for 2007
were handed out in parliament on Friday at an event attended by
President Laszlo Solyom.

Budapest, March 26 (MTI) – The European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (EBRD) is willing to buy carbon-dioxide emission
rights worth 5-10 million euros from Hungary, EBRD’s representative
in Budapest Zsuzsanna Hargitai told MTI on Wednesday.