Some 62% of companies surveyed by recruiting site Profession.hu plan pay rises of 6-10% this year. Photo by Csaba Nagy / Pixabay  (JAP)

The Vatican announced the three-day “apostolic journey”, the pontiff’s 41st visit abroad since he was elected in 2013, will include meetings with Hungary’s heads of state and government on Friday. (JAP)

In the third episode of The Bold Truth About Hungary's second season, State Secretary Zoltán Kovács discussed the main elements of Hungary's "unorthodox" economic policy, widely known as the "Hungarian model," with Finance Minister Mihály Varga. Source: YouTube Cover photo by OLIVIER HOSLET/PAP/EPA

Richard Hörcsik, chairman of the Parliament's European Affairs Committee, proposed the renovation of the 150-year-old first railway line in Galicia next year at the international conference called Europe of the Carpathians, held in Krasiczyn, southeastern Poland, on Saturday.

- Next year we will celebrate the 35th anniversary of the great revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989, which in various ways led to regaining freedom and independence.

Hungary’s jobless rate was 3.9% in January, up from 3.8% in the previous month, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Friday. Photo by Gerd Altmann z 

Today marks one year since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine started. - We Hungarians, wish that the road to a just peace may open! Let 2023 be the year of peace!

The average net wage including tax benefits in December 2022 was 400,300 forints, 18.7% higher than in the same period a year prior.

"The best sign of friendship is that we can talk openly about everything with each other. We hope that the war will end as soon as possible, but we are sure that our friendship will last forever", said Hungarian President Katalin Novak after a meeting with Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki. Photo by Paweł Supernak/PAP

On 1 March, the debate on Hungary's ratification of Sweden and Finland's NATO membership will finally begin in the Hungarian parliament. According to local media, the final vote on the matter is expected after March 6. Photo by ROBERT GHEMENT/PAP/EPA (JAP)

Hungary's state debt relative to GDP fell to 72.9% at the end of last year from 76.8%, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said in a post on Facebook on Monday.      Mihály Varga (L) in Brussels. Photo by OLIVIER HOSLET/ PAP/EPA

If 2022 was the most difficult year, then 2023 will be the most dangerous year since the regime change, Hungarin Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his annual “State of the Nation” address on Saturday. “Alongside migration, which is slowly becoming permanent, we have two new enemies, two new threats.