– If we start using the Chinese vaccine, which will happen soon, then by Easter we can vaccinate every person who has registered so far – Hungarian Prime Minister told Kossuth Radio, referring to the nearly 2.5 million people who have signed up to receive COVID-19 vaccines. – As things stand now, that will be 6.8 million people by the end of May or beginning of June – Viktor Orbán added.

The EC modified its estimate for last year's decline in Hungary's GDP to 5.3% from 6.4%. Photo credit: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay  (jap)

Hungary has joined the Three Seas Investment Fund and submitted proposals for 16 projects covering the areas of digitalisation, shipping and energy, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at an online meeting of foreign ministers focusing on the Three Seas Initiative

– Visegrad Group is an important catalyst of Central-European cooperation – Andrzej Duda said at the summit of the presidents of the Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia held on February 9-10 at the Polish presidential residency in Jurata on Hel Peninsula on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

The Meeting of Presidents of the V4 Group will be held on February 9-10 in the Presidential Residence on the Hel Peninsula. – We have to build strong Central Europe – Krzysztof Szczerski, the presidential plenipotentiary for the establishment of the International Policy Bureau said in the radio interview.

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– The economic restart action plan has been launched – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced during a speech at the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MKIK) on Thursday.

„In Hungary we say that you can only be a good European if you are a good Hungarian” – the Hungarian Prime Minister told the German Stern magazine. Fot. Radek Pietruszka / PAP (jap)

Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are starting small with a joint move to buy training ammunition – Czech Minister of Defense Lubomír Metnar wrote on Twitter. Fot. Twitter

The first shipment of the Russian coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Hungary. The 40,000 doses were enough to inoculate 20,000 people. Hungary has approved five COVID-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna AstraZeneca, Sputnik V and Sinopharm.

The 100th birth anniversary of Hungarian piano virtuoso Gyorgy Cziffra will be marked in 15 countries worldwide in 2021 – the leader of the Hungarian celebrations, pianist Janos Balazs, said on public news channel M1.  Source: YouTube

92,233 children were born in Hungary in 2020, 3,040 more than in the year before. – We are proud to say that in the last ten years, among all the member states of the European Union, the desire to have children has increased the most in Hungary – minister Katalin Novák said, quoted by the Magyar Hírlap daily.