By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police are investigating why former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia last month right…
Hungary Gives Nod To Sweden’s NATO Bid After Months Of Holding Out Jake Smith on February 23, 2024 Hungary has given the go-ahead for Sweden to join NATO after holding…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – A bipartisan U.S. Congressional delegation will visit Hungary on Sunday as pressure grows on Budapest to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership when parliament reconvenes after its winter break. Hungary…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary will decide in coming days on whether to proceed with a technical change in the calculation of loan repayment rates, intended to cut the cost of…
By Gergely Szakacs and Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s central bank on Thursday criticised a government proposal to replace interbank rates with Treasury bill yields as the main, much…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s finance minister on Saturday warned against complacency despite a sharp fall in the European Union’s highest inflation rate, saying any new supply shock to the global…
By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A group of EU lawmakers called on member states’ governments on Friday to punish Hungary’s Viktor Orban for damaging democracy at home by moving…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s government will require large food retailers from March to display price warnings on products that have shrunk in size, the Economy Ministry said on Monday. Hungary’s…
By Boldizsar Gyori BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s parliament passed a law in parliament on “protecting national sovereignty” on Tuesday to defend against what the ruling Fidesz party called undue political…
By Gabriela Baczynska and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will find ways to provide more financial support to Ukraine even if Hungary vetoes it as well as membership…
By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The EU’s statistics agency said on Thursday it was in talks with Hungary’s main data body over how energy inflation was calculated, days after…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The United States is “confident” that Sweden will soon be a member of NATO, the U.S. ambassador to Hungary said on Thursday, adding he had been assured…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD plans to build its first European car factory in Hungary, a German newspaper reported on Saturday. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS), citing…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s government has raised the 2023 budget deficit target to 5.2% of economic output from 3.9%, the finance ministry said on Tuesday, citing increased spending on pensions,…
By Gabriela Baczynska and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU chief Ursula von der Leyen set out a vision on Wednesday of an enlarged European Union that would include Ukraine…
SUBOTICA, Serbia (Reuters) – Serbia has sent special forces to the border with Hungary as hundreds of migrants a day try to reach the European Union. With Serbia on the…
By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The United States imposed restrictions for Hungarian passport holders under its Visa Waiver Program on Tuesday, saying Budapest has not addressed security vulnerabilities repeatedly…
By Krisztina Than and Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s annual inflation will slow to 7-8% by December from 20.1% in June, helping the economy rebound, Finance Minister Mihaly Varga…
By Boldizsar Gyori BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that he had been in touch with his Turkish counterpart about a ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership and…
By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s central bank is expected to cut its key one-day deposit rate again next week, a Reuters poll showed, as inflation cooled more than…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary should not consider adopting the euro before 2030 as joining the single currency zone before its economy is duly prepared would backfire, central bank governor Gyorgy…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s government has infringed the National Bank of Hungary’s (NBH) independence with a decree restricting access to the bank’s discount bill and by extending a cap on…
By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The National Bank of Hungary is expected to leave its base rate steady at 13% at next Tuesday’s policy meeting, where the bank has…
WARSAW/BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Poland and Hungary have decided to ban imports of grain and other food from neighbouring Ukraine to protect the local agricultural sector, the two governments said on Saturday,…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary abandoned a Budapest-based Russian bank this week because U.S. sanctions had “ruined” it, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, adding that Hungary would comply with…