Foreign Affairs

World

Serbia near-bankrupt, Ukraine unsustainable

Serbia is close to insolvency and must cut public wages and subsidies to state companies to avert it, Deputy Prime...

Visits

MOL-INA: Orbán urges buyout; national relations emphasized

BBJ starts what is certain to be another week of stories on ongoing negotiations between Hungary-based gas-and-oil giant MOL and...

World

Hungary denies asylum to former Ukrainian MP

Former Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Shepelev, a suspected embezzler of public and private funds, has reportedly been denied asylum via refugee...

Int'l Relations

State set to take over E.ON ownership today

The Hungarian gas business of Germany-based E.ON will return to the state on September 30, National Development Minister Zsuzsa Németh...

Visits

Election ’14: Orbán, Bajnai call each other communists

To no one’s surprise, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was formally reelected Fidesz party chairman on Saturday. Orbán then took the...

Visits

Editorial: Crumbling bedrock

The start of the fall parliamentary season brings another modification to a cardinal law, a piece of legislation that requires...

EU

EC to Hungary, six other states: Comply with energy efficiency

The European Commission has formally requested full compliance from seven member states, including Hungary, on their obligations as described in...

World

Government backs Ukraine on EU Association Agreement

The Ukrainian government has proudly reported that Hungary, via Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen “stands ready with maximum support” for...

Visits

Minister: Food exports could fill gap in trade with Russia

One of the best ways to close the $5 billion gap in Hungary's trade with Russia could be the increase...

Visits

Orbán prepares for “battle” over utility price cuts

Nobody should have any doubts that 2014 will be the year of the battle to protect the achieved results in...

Int'l Relations

Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina cooperate to support SMEs

Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina signed an agreement on cooperating to support SMEs in the two countries in Sarajevo on Friday, the...

Visits

BBJ’s stories of the week, September 7-13

It’s Friday, another ending of a news cycle – and so, before BBJ takes off for the weekend, it’s one...

Int'l Relations

Talks start on $50 million tied-aid credit for Uzbekistan

Talks have started on the launch of a $50 million tied-aid credit program in which Hungarian companies would modernize street...

EU

Visegrád Four: EU must support biofuel industry

From a meeting of agricultural sector leaders from the Visegrád Four (V4) nations (Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia) came a...

EU

EU to free up suspended funds (minus penalty)

As expected, European Union authorities have decided to restart development funding to Hungary, though the country will see a €230...

World

Serbia near-bankrupt, Ukraine unsustainable

Serbia is close to insolvency and must cut public wages and subsidies to state companies to avert it, Deputy Prime...

Visits

MOL-INA: Orbán urges buyout; national relations emphasized

BBJ starts what is certain to be another week of stories on ongoing negotiations between Hungary-based gas-and-oil giant MOL and...

World

Hungary denies asylum to former Ukrainian MP

Former Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Shepelev, a suspected embezzler of public and private funds, has reportedly been denied asylum via refugee...

Int'l Relations

State set to take over E.ON ownership today

The Hungarian gas business of Germany-based E.ON will return to the state on September 30, National Development Minister Zsuzsa Németh...

Visits

Election ’14: Orbán, Bajnai call each other communists

To no one’s surprise, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was formally reelected Fidesz party chairman on Saturday. Orbán then took the...

Visits

Editorial: Crumbling bedrock

The start of the fall parliamentary season brings another modification to a cardinal law, a piece of legislation that requires...

EU

EC to Hungary, six other states: Comply with energy efficiency

The European Commission has formally requested full compliance from seven member states, including Hungary, on their obligations as described in...

World

Government backs Ukraine on EU Association Agreement

The Ukrainian government has proudly reported that Hungary, via Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen “stands ready with maximum support” for...

Visits

Minister: Food exports could fill gap in trade with Russia

One of the best ways to close the $5 billion gap in Hungary's trade with Russia could be the increase...

Visits

Orbán prepares for “battle” over utility price cuts

Nobody should have any doubts that 2014 will be the year of the battle to protect the achieved results in...

Int'l Relations

Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina cooperate to support SMEs

Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina signed an agreement on cooperating to support SMEs in the two countries in Sarajevo on Friday, the...

Visits

BBJ’s stories of the week, September 7-13

It’s Friday, another ending of a news cycle – and so, before BBJ takes off for the weekend, it’s one...

Int'l Relations

Talks start on $50 million tied-aid credit for Uzbekistan

Talks have started on the launch of a $50 million tied-aid credit program in which Hungarian companies would modernize street...

EU

Visegrád Four: EU must support biofuel industry

From a meeting of agricultural sector leaders from the Visegrád Four (V4) nations (Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia) came a...

EU

EU to free up suspended funds (minus penalty)

As expected, European Union authorities have decided to restart development funding to Hungary, though the country will see a €230...

Serbia near-bankrupt, Ukraine unsustainable

Serbia is close to insolvency and must cut public wages and subsidies to state companies to avert it, Deputy Prime...

MOL-INA: Orbán urges buyout; national relations emphasized

BBJ starts what is certain to be another week of stories on ongoing negotiations between Hungary-based gas-and-oil giant MOL and...

Hungary denies asylum to former Ukrainian MP

Former Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Shepelev, a suspected embezzler of public and private funds, has reportedly been denied asylum via refugee...

State set to take over E.ON ownership today

The Hungarian gas business of Germany-based E.ON will return to the state on September 30, National Development Minister Zsuzsa Németh...

Election ’14: Orbán, Bajnai call each other communists

To no one’s surprise, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was formally reelected Fidesz party chairman on Saturday. Orbán then took the...

Editorial: Crumbling bedrock

The start of the fall parliamentary season brings another modification to a cardinal law, a piece of legislation that requires...

EC to Hungary, six other states: Comply with energy efficiency

The European Commission has formally requested full compliance from seven member states, including Hungary, on their obligations as described in...

Government backs Ukraine on EU Association Agreement

The Ukrainian government has proudly reported that Hungary, via Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen “stands ready with maximum support” for...

Minister: Food exports could fill gap in trade with Russia

One of the best ways to close the $5 billion gap in Hungary's trade with Russia could be the increase...

Orbán prepares for “battle” over utility price cuts

Nobody should have any doubts that 2014 will be the year of the battle to protect the achieved results in...

Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina cooperate to support SMEs

Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina signed an agreement on cooperating to support SMEs in the two countries in Sarajevo on Friday, the...

BBJ’s stories of the week, September 7-13

It’s Friday, another ending of a news cycle – and so, before BBJ takes off for the weekend, it’s one...

Talks start on $50 million tied-aid credit for Uzbekistan

Talks have started on the launch of a $50 million tied-aid credit program in which Hungarian companies would modernize street...

Visegrád Four: EU must support biofuel industry

From a meeting of agricultural sector leaders from the Visegrád Four (V4) nations (Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia) came a...

EU to free up suspended funds (minus penalty)

As expected, European Union authorities have decided to restart development funding to Hungary, though the country will see a €230...