According to the Spanish outono.net Eurostat reveals the good progress of those countries with conservative governments.  Photo credit: printscreen (jap)

Two Hungarian films in competition at the Berlinale international film festival have won Silver Bears this year. The Silver Bear for Best Director went to Dénes Nagy for his debut film Natural Light made in Hungarian-Latvian-French-German co-production.

Poland has recorded the lowest unemployment rate in the European Union (3.1 percent), slightly less than the 3.2 percent held by second place the Czech Republic – according to data published by Eurostat.  Photo credit: Gerd Altmann / Pixabay  (jap)

Speaking at the weekly Kormányinfó event, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office, announced that all shops – with the exception of food stores, pharmacies and petrol stations –  must close between March 8 and 22, with primary schools and nurseries remaining shut until April 7.

Hungary will make a return to the MotoGP calendar in 2023.  ​ GP Spain. Photo credit Kai Foersterling / EFE / PAP/EPA Hungary last hosted a motorcycle Grand Prix in 1992 at the Hungaroring.(jap)

Fidesz MEPs leave the European People's Party (EPP) after the People's Party adopted an amendment to its statutes on Wednesday. Source: Facebook / Novák Katalin   (jap)

Investment volume in Hungary rose by an annual 2.5 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, after three consecutive quarters of declines – according to data by the Central Statistical Office (KSH). (jap, photo credit: tomfield z Pixabay)

Due to the surge of new variants in Hungary, Chief Medical Officer Cecília Müller is urging people to get vaccinated as soon as possible. From March onwards, the second jab of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine will be given 35 days after the first vaccination, instead of the former three weeks. Furthermore, the second dose of AstraZeneca will be given 12 weeks after the first vaccination, instead of four weeks.

The Polish president Andrzej Duda paid tribute on Monday to the "Cursed Soldiers" (also known as "doomed soldiers", "accursed soldiers"), who fought against the communist authorities for a free and independent state, at a ceremony to mark their memorial day. The clandestine organisations continued their armed struggle against the communism regime of Poland into the 1950s. An estimated 50,000 members of the "Cursed Soldiers" perished at the hands of the communists between 1944 and 1956. They…

The Hungarian Prime Minister was vaccinated with a Chinese vaccine. The prime minister shared some photos and a video of his vaccination on his social media on Sunday. – The third wave will attack and become stronger than the previous two. Please register and get vaccinated. This is the only possible protection – Viktor Orbán said. 

– Central Europe has a chance to make a huge leap forward – said Zsolt Németh, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament, in an online speech at the “Europe of the Carpathians” International Conference on Saturday.   ​

– I have nothing but bad news. The situation is that we are facing the most difficult two weeks of the entire epidemic, the entire epidemic we have experienced so far. Due to the appearance of new mutations, the number of infections is increasing intensively, and will continue to increase – the Hungarian Prime Minister said.  In the radio for Kossuth Rádió he also mentioned that delivery of the vaccines ordered by the EU appears even more sluggish than expected.