Hungarian rate-setters raised the central bank's base rate by 15 basis points to 1.65 percent. 

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski condemned double standards in Brussels, saying EU law objections are really about politics in the interview for Hungarian Daily Magyar Hirlap. 

– By 15 February 2022, they will refund the personal income tax paid in 2021 to parents raising children. The owners of small businesses who raise children will also receive a tax refund. In total, in February 2022 the tax authority will refund HUF 600 billion to 1.9 million parents – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in his address in Parliament.

–  It is wrong to always talk only about Hungary and Poland – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told the Austrian Funke Media Group and the French daily „Ouest-France”. Kurz said that equal measures should apply for all European Union member states.  Photo by: Bundesmini

The twelve MEPs of Hungary's ruling Fidesz party have regained the committee seats they lost this March when the Fidesz group left the European People's Party. 

Today, the inaugural conference of the De Republica Institute was held at the Regent Hotel in Warsaw. A new state body created in February by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Photo by MS

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hollywood star and famous bodybuilder, secretly visited Budapest, where he trained together with Dotti Sinka, a 10-year-old Hungarian girl, who pulled the 2700-kilo car with her teeth. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Pope Francis emphasized the courage and faith of St. Stephen and St. Elizabeth in his closing speech at the Heroes' Square in Budapest at the closing mass of the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress. – Let's not get by with a faith that lives only on ceremonies and repetitions – he said.

Hungary protects Europe’s borders. We are working hard to ensure that what happened in New York twenty years ago should never happen again, reads Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s press statement which the Press Office of the Prime Minister published on the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York.

Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, announced on Friday that the automotive industry in Hungary had increased its production by 31 percent in the first half of 2021, and by the end of the year, for the first time ever, its total value could exceed 10,000 billion forints. Photo by Audi Hungária

In total, 14.9 million guest nights were registered at accommodation establishments in Hungary this summer, which is 25 percent more than in 2020, and the number of domestic guest nights reached 11.9 million. – This is an outstanding achievement – said Zoltán Guller the CEO of the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTÜ).

The head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau said that the greatest challenge facing Europe was „to save the project of European integration”. The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, emphasised that Hungary does not agree with the delegation of further powers to EU institutions.

In September 7-9, 2021, the Sejm of the Republic of Poland with cooperation with Wacław Felczak Polish-Hungarian Institute is organizing the 30th edition of the Europe of the Carpathians conference in Karpacz. The event is organized together with the biggest economy meeting in Central Europe: the Economic Forum. Source: YouTube / Sejm

Hungary is interested in the European Union being strong, but in order to do so, the alliance must change – the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Saturday before the Civic Picnic event of the Foundation for Civic Hungary in Kötcsa.

Two restaurants in Budapest – Essencia and Salt – have been newly awarded one Michelin star according to the Michelin Guide Budapest 2021. 

The only way to manage migration in the European Union is by giving that right back to the Member States, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday in Bled, Slovenia, at the Leaders’ Panel of the international Strategic Forum (BSF). Photy by: PAP/Abaca (JAP)