Budapest, March 25 (MTI) – Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom on
Tuesday signed a law on repealing tuition fees in higher education,
and co-payments to doctors and hospitals, in line with the outcome
of the March 9 referendum, the President’s Office told MTI.
Budapest, March 20 (MTI) – Hungary’s governing coalition parties
started talks on Thursday about the future of health-care reform.
Budapest, March 20 (MTI) – Ukrainian border police stopped a
wagonload of radioactive materials near Hungary’s border with
Ukraine on Thursday, local border guards spokesman Vasil Yarmeliuk
told MTI.
Budapest, March 19 (MTI) – A referendum will be held on April 6
in Szentgotthard, W Hungary, to gauge public opinion about a waste
incinerator project to be built in Heiligenkreutz, an Austrian town
near the Hungarian border, the mayor said on Wednesday.
London, March 19 (MTI) – Hungary’s referendum to reverse
health-care and tuition fees is likely to deliver a “severe blow” to
the reform of the country’s health-care system and other sectors,
said a Wednesday report by a London-based bank.
Budapest, March 18 (MTI) – The government plans to distribute
280 million forints or 1.09 million euros a month from a
compensation fund among GPs to partially offset the loss of revenues
from scrapped doctor’s fees, Health Minister Agnes Horvath said on
Tuesday. Â
Budapest, March 17 (MTI) – Hungary’s Parliament on Monday
approved the government’s bill on implementing the decisions passed
by a nationwide referendum on March 9. Accordingly, the fees for doctor’s visits and hospital stays
will be scrapped on April 1, 2008 and tuition fees for higher
education will not be introduced at all.
Budapest, March 17 (MTI) – Parliament meets on Monday and one
main point on its agenda will be vote on terminating co-payments for
doctor visits, per diem hospital fees and college tuition fees, all
voted down in a referendum a week ago.
Budapest, March 12 (MTI) – Greenpeace is concerned over the
possible pollutant emissions of a contentious Austrian waste
incinerator planned near the Hungarian border, a statement issued on
Wednesday said.
Budapest, March 11 (MTI) – Customs officers seized 25 tonnes of
waste transported by a truck with Slovakian plates at Vamosszabadi
(NW) border crossing on Tuesday, a customs and excise spokesman told
MTI.
