The chairmen of the foreign affairs committees of the Visegrad countries discussed their Eastern and Southern security policy issues with their French counterparts in Budapest.  Photo by Peter Kovalev / PAP/TASS  

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks in Budapest on central and eastern Europe’s energy sovereignty and efforts to consolidate the north-south energy corridor with Daniel Obajtek, management board president of the Polish PKN Orlen company, and Zsolt Hernádi, chairman-CEO of the Hungarian MOL Group – the prime minister’s press chief Bertalan Havasi announced.

Liu Shaoang won the 500-meter men's short-distance speed skating competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Sunday. He is Hungary's first individual gold medalist at the Winter Games.

   Viktor Orbán. Photo by Szilard Koszticsak / MTI / PAP/EPA   (JAP)

Consumer prices in Hungary rose by 7.9 percent year-on-year in January – data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on Friday show.  

Reduced VAT on gasoline and diesel oil in Poland and the Fuel Price Cap introduced by the Hungarian government are pushing more and more drivers from Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to top up their tanks in Poland and Hungary. Photo by Marcin Bielecki / PAP (JAP)

Energy ministers of the Visegrad Group – Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia – and officials in charge of energy from Germany and Austria discussed the planning and establishment of a European hydrogen ecosystem at a meeting in Budapest on Tuesday. Photo by PAP/Łukasz Gągulski

The international federation of water sports, FINA, announced on Monday that the 2022 World Championships will be held this year, but not at the originally planned venue in Fukuoka, but in Budapest!

Ákos Engelmayer, a Hungarian journalist living in Poland, historian, lecturer, diplomat, received the Order of Merit for Polish Culture, awarded by Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Piotr Glinski on Saturday.   

The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest will soon present its “strongest ever line-up” featuring exhibitions by Bosch, Matisse and El Greco in 2022

The 2022 Winter Olympics kick off with the Opening Ceremony on Friday. Hungary has sent the smallest national team for over three decades. Nevertheless, Hungarian fans strongly hope that their athletes will be able to return to the country for the first time with more than one medal.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Czech Prime Minister, Petr Fiala, announced that the two countries had signed an agreement on the disputed Turow lignite mine in Prague on Thursday. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Czech Prime Minister, Petr Fiala, announced that the two countries had signed an agreement on the disputed Turow lignite mine in Prague on Thursday.

In January, the new residential real estate market in Budapest set a record: the average price per square meter increased by 17 percent to HUF 1.03 million (PLN 13200 / EUR 2905).  Photo by nextvoyage / pixabay   (JAP)

– My visit today is also a kind of peace mission. I would like to reassure you that none of the leaders of the European Union and its member nations want a war or conflicts – the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after meeting President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.

Hungary’s defence minister Tibor Benkő welcomed completion of the Hungarian Armed Forces’ light helicopter fleet following delivery in December of the 20 H145M utility helicopters to their base in the 86th Szolnok Helicopter Base.

In the afternoon of February 1 the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will meet with the Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a working visit in the Kremlin.  Photo by Alexei Nikolsky / PAP/ITAR-TASS