Housing completions in Hungary rose by 33.5 percent to 28,208 in 2020, an eleven-year record – the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Wednesday.

The United States has been a strong supporter of the Three Seas Initiative from the start and it addresses many of our shared priorities – Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said in his remarks on the Three Seas Initiative. – We applaud your work, and are eager to work with you to strengthen a Europe that is whole, free, prosperous and at peace - added U.S. Secretary of State. Like you, we want more regional economic development.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki thanked Viktor Orbán for returning the armour, saying it would henceforth be another symbol of Polish-Hungarian friendship. Photo credit. Art Service 2 / PAP Sigismund II Augustus was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1548 to 1572.

The Heads of Government of the Visegrad Group agreed to increase the annual budget of the International Visegrad Fund to EUR 10 million, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, announced in Cracow.

Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak and his Hungarian counterpart Tibor Benkő signed a bilateral military cooperation agreement in Budapest on Tuesday. ​ Photo credit: PAP/Leszek Szymański (jap)

In the next few months we will complete the mass inoculation plan, gradually phase out the Covid-19 restrictions based on people's views and implement our action plan designed to restart the economy – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on the first day of the Hungarian parliament's spring session on Monday. ​

Ladies and Gentlemen!  The Visegrad Group is a regional agreement, geographically embedded in Central Europe and politically in the architecture of the European Union. In the temporal dimension, the Visegrad cooperation refers to the cooperation of kingdoms and nations, which took place in the Middle Ages – the famous Visegrad conventions, while today it is necessary to deal with the heritage not very gracious for the Central European countries of the 20th century.

It is with great honour and pleasure that we present to the reader's hands the “Visegrad Atlas” – a monograph presenting the geographical diversity – natural, social and economic – of the four countries forming the Visegrad Group, i.e. Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia (V4).

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The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita is considered to be the most common form of presentation of spatial income disparities between countries and regions. For the Visegrad countries, a good benchmark is the average GDP per capita, in the EU. Piotr Rosik, Patryk Duma

The development of the  Internet has contributed to changes in society and the economy. New solutions have emerged, replacing or complementing the existing ones. Among them are cryptocurrencies, i.e. digital currencies independent of central institutions. Krzysztof Janc

COVID-19 was first diagnosed in Wuhan in central China in December 2019. It is caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 acute respiratory disease. The disease also reached Europe in a short time, and the situation is changing rapidly. Tomasz Michalski, Wioletta Szymańska At the outset, it should be noted that the official picture of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in society is influenced by the number of tests performed.