On December 5, in the south of Hungary, a national radioactive waste cemetary was opened, and the first barell was placed in it. The site, which is located in Bátaapáti, has cost HUF 68 billion and can store 500 containers that is 4600 barrels of nuclear waste. Entrance of the […]
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As I wrote Hungary signed a “strategic agreement” with Japanese car manufacturer Suzuki last week. They came 5thafter such companies as Coca-Cola, pharmaceutical firm Gedeon Richter, aluminum company Alcoa-Kofem and German car manufacturer Daimler. Today, a new member, Korean tire giant Hankook was added to the group. The agreement was […]
On 21 November Hungary signed an agreement with Japanese car manufacturer Suzuki. The document of “strategic partnership” was signed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Hungarian Suzuki Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Hisashi Takeuchi. In his speech Viktor Orbán praised the free trade agreement between the European Union and Japan, […]
According to the Hungarian News Agency (MTI) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Kevin Turner in Budapest. The meeting took place in the Hungarian Parliament on 7 November and there were Hungarian and the Central European top managers of Microsoft as well. Kevin Turner and Viktor […]
Condoms and dummies caused problems in the Hungarian and Slovak parts of the Druzhba oilpipeline – reported the Hungarian News Agency MTI. It is unclear how the unusual pollution got into the pipeline but there must have been a large quantitiy of it because the rubber items made the instruments […]
Drinking Coca-cola used to mean that people could believe, at least for a second, that they belonged to the western world – remembered Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán the country’s communist past when the drink was illegal and said to be a “capitalist drug”. The time has changed. Later – […]
The Hungarian Central Statistical Office has just published the current wage figures. According to the statistics in the first half of 2012 the average gross earnings were 220,700 HUF (ca 780 euro, 955 USD) per month. The best-paid jobs can be found at financial and insurance companies ((HUF 464,900 on […]
Yes, I know these figures do not have too much to do with everyday life, but it could be quite interesting to see them together. The Eurostat – the statistical Office of the European Union – institute recently publishedthe GDP per capitafigures of the European countries based on the preliminary […]