Hungarian oil and gas company MOL will launch a scheme dubbed MOL Plugee Partner Program supporting businesses that install new, high-capacity electric vehicle charging points with up to HUF 3.6 million per company, MOL said on Friday. The aim of the program is to increase the number of reliable, publicly available charging points at viable […]

June 2026 was the second hottest June on record in Hungary, marked by an extreme heatwave, the national weather service company HungaroMet said on Friday. The average temperature for the month was 22.5 Celsius nationwide, exceeding the 1991-2020 average of 19.8 degrees by 2.7 Celsius. This made it the second warmest June in the country's […]

HungaroControl's air traffic controllers managed 452,414 flights in Hungarian airspace in January-June 2026, 1.8% fewer than in the same period a year earlier, the state-owned company said. June was the busiest month of the year so far with 97,232 flights. In the first six months the number of flights the ATCs managed that only passed […]

Hungarians' trust in the European Union as a place of stability in a troubled world has surged to 80%, well above the EU average of 75%, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey published this week. Trust among Europeans rose by eight percentage points since the last survey in October-November 2025, but Hungarian support jumped 14 […]

Surgeons at the University of Szeged were the first in Europe, and the third in the world, to implant a new type of heart valve-containing vascular prosthesis, the university's communications office said in a statement on Thursday. The innovative procedure involved implanting a biologically derived heart valve in two young patients with congenital heart disease. […]

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank have announced on Thursday the disbursement of EUR 2.5 billion from the Modernization Fund to support 51 energy-related projects in 11 EU member states, including EUR 552.3 million of transfers for Hungary. These investments will help modernize energy systems by improving energy efficiency in the energy, industry […]

Hungary's net issuance of state debt stood at 85.0% of the full-year plan at the end of the second quarter, the Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) said in a press release. As MTI reports, net issuance came to HUF 4,615 billion, compared to the HUF 5,455 billion target for the whole year. Net retail issuance […]

Hungarian-owned Pek-Snack group, which makes frozen bakery products, had after-tax profit of HUF 619 million in 2025, up 5% from HUF 589 million a year earlier, the company told MTI. Revenue was HUF 12.7 billion, almost unchanged from a year earlier. Exports accounted for 42% of the total. Pek-Snack has an extensive franchise network. It […]

Spot market turnover on the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) totaled HUF 565.7 billion in June, representing an average daily trading volume of HUF 25.7 billion; the exchange’s benchmark stock index, the BUX, rose 3.9%, closing the month at 139,892.19 points, the bourse told MTI. On international stock markets in June, investor sentiment was shaped by […]

OTP Bank became the first European Union financial institution to launch a EUR 7 billion Medium Term Note (EMTN) program on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the bank said on Wednesday. The launch of the program was celebrated with a gong ceremony on June 30. As the first step of the new program, a EUR […]

The Hungarian currency, the forint strengthened close to 8% against the euro in the first half of this year, taking third place among emerging market currencies after the Brazilian real and the Columbian peso, senior analyst Dávid Németh of K+H Bank said on Wednesday. The forint strengthening is a sign of investor confidence in Hungary, […]

The freedom of the United States also guarantees freedom in Europe, Caroline Savage, the Chargé d'Affaires of the US Embassy in Budapest, said at a commemoration marking the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. The ceremony was held at a monument to George Washington in the Hungarian capital's City Park on Wednesday, MTI […]

Hungary's seasonally-adjusted Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) stood at 51.5 points in June, rising from 50.2 in the previous month, the Hungarian Association of Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory Management (Halpim) said on Wednesday. The PMI was over the 50-point threshold, signalling expansion in the manufacturing sector. Among the PMI sub-indices, the new orders index rose 3.7 […]

Hungary's government sector had a HUF 2,090 billion deficit in the first quarter, equivalent to 9.0% of GDP, data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on Wednesday show. The deficit was HUF 838 billion higher, or 3.1 percentage points higher as a proportion of GDP compared to the same period of the previous year. […]

The heads of the foreign affairs and European affairs committees of Visegrád Group (V4) parliaments signed a joint agreement expressing their positions on the European Union's next seven-year framework budget, security policy, EU enlargement plans, and opportunities for expanding cooperation, the chair of Hungarian parliament's European affairs committee, Ildikó Sopov said on Tuesday, MTI reports. […]

Last year, some 6.6 million tons of biomass was used for energy production in Hungary, 10.7% more than the year before, the Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) said in a report on Tuesday. In 2025, Hungarian power plants, heating plants and industrial boiler operators using biomass feedstock primarily relied on wood chips — hat is, […]