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Deals

Hungarian government dealing with the drug firms

The pharmaceutical industry will probably be the next industry to be crisis taxed. Hungary’s largest drug firms, the country’s largest...

Deals

Hungarian government dealing with the drug firms

The pharmaceutical industry will probably be the next industry to be crisis taxed. Hungary’s largest drug firms, the country’s largest...

You name it!

While the government’s recently presented convergence program unveils the details of the reform of the employment and the social welfare...

You name it!

While the government’s recently presented convergence program unveils the details of the reform of the employment and the social welfare...

Competition

Hungarian ministries are not publishing their contracts according to law

The government is not taking its predecessor's signature transparency regulation too seriously: the Prime Minister's Office, for example, has not...

Competition

Hungarian ministries are not publishing their contracts according to law

The government is not taking its predecessor's signature transparency regulation too seriously: the Prime Minister's Office, for example, has not...

Office Market

Earth Day dilemma: is life, in fact, better in a green office?

In a word, yes. While some think that making offices greener is just greenwash, those who work in a more...

Office Market

Earth Day dilemma: is life, in fact, better in a green office?

In a word, yes. While some think that making offices greener is just greenwash, those who work in a more...

Hungary in makeover mode

While there is some criticism of the government’s recently revealed economic reforms for being only skin-deep, the Fidesz-KDNP party alliance...

Hungary in makeover mode

While there is some criticism of the government’s recently revealed economic reforms for being only skin-deep, the Fidesz-KDNP party alliance...

Analysis

Hungary legalizes mothers’ right to home delivery

A long-awaited detailed regulation on home birth allows women to decide where they want to give birth as long as...

Analysis

Hungary legalizes mothers’ right to home delivery

A long-awaited detailed regulation on home birth allows women to decide where they want to give birth as long as...

History

Parliamentary opposition not content with reforms

The political opposition was univocally critical of the reform package announced by the Hungarian government on Tuesday....

History

Parliamentary opposition not content with reforms

The political opposition was univocally critical of the reform package announced by the Hungarian government on Tuesday....

Automotive

Shifting down

Three out of every 100 drivers in Budapest left their cars in the garage in 2009, a recent survey of...

Sights

Social media might serve career aims

As social media is taking an increasingly big bite of our daily lives, its importance is also growing when it...

History

On their way – Hungarian worker migration threats

Hungarian potential migration hit an all-time record when a recent poll showed that almost every fifth adult wants to try...

Office Market

Green certificate – to make things obvious

Being green already seems to be a basic market requirement for office buildings, and more of them want to prove...

Transport

On the way up – competition for air passengers getting heavier

As more airlines report bankruptcy in an ongoing market cleansing process, those left standing should be getting ever stronger. At...

Conferences

Virtual reality – Hungarian innovation to change the world?

3D technology appears in most fields of everyday life, from film animations to medical solutions. Now the market is on...

Sights

Nature can solve it: Hungarian-developed botanic garden can clean world’s waste water

An exuberant little forest full of life – it would be hard to say from Organica Water’s botanic gardens that...

Transport

Up for the future? – Hungary’s need and scope for a new national airline

Despite several statements about already negotiating how and when to put a new Hungarian airline into the sky, it seems...

Banking

No more taxes, s’il vous plaît – French companies and Hungary’s unorthodox economic policy

Hard times require tough decisions. In the dark days of the crisis, Hungary implemented unorthodox measures to meet deficit targets,...

Sights

“Paraszolvencia” infecting the Hungarian healthcare system

Patients’ distrust in the quality of service and extremely low salaries for healthcare workers has made parasolvency (a kind of...

Drinks

Dreams come true

Many people probably had a childhood dream about what they would become as a grown-up, dreams they later decided to...

Sights

Private healthcare blooming

While Hungarians cut their consumption in almost every field to live through the ongoing crisis somehow, the turnover of private...

History

More than chocolate – Swiss-Hungarian bilateral business relations

Aside from the top quality Swiss products available on Hungarian shelves, the little Alpine country plays a sizable role in...

Automotive

Time to wake up – new car market over the worst days?

After three years of struggle, during which new car sales dropped by 70%, Hungarian car importers finally see light at...

Deals

A good strategy can save a shopping center

The current difficult economic conditions obviously do not favor the non-food retail market. How is declining purchasing power rearranging the...