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Jan 17, 2025 | 
dailynewshungary.com | John Woods
Hungary’s emergence as the regional distributor of Russian gas amidst the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and escalating tensions between Russia and NATO has raised concerns, particularly for Slovakia. The arrangement has led to significantly higher costs for Slovakian consumers, while certain Hungarian companies are reaping substantial profits from the transactions.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
dailynewshungary.com | John Woods
Hungarian government has introduced the Client Gate+ (Ügyfélkapu+) system and the Digital Citizenship Programme (DCP) mobile app yesterday, replacing the older and less secure Client Gate (Ügyfélkapu) system. While these updates are designed to enhance digital identification security, the government’s recommendation of a Russian-developed one-time code generator has raised some eyebrows, particularly given the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and tensions between NATO and Russia.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
dailynewshungary.com | John Woods
Budapest’s 6th district, Terézváros, is one of the most popular targets of foreign and Hungarian investors and home buyers since most destinations tourists tend to visit in the Hungarian capital are just within walking distance. Meanwhile, the district’s reputation is good, its public spaces are more or less clean and safe. Moreover, due to a referendum banning Airbnb rentals, property prices began decreasing in the 6th district.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
dailynewshungary.com | John Woods
The cold front reached Lake Balaton on Friday and caused a serious shift concerning the lake’s water level. The difference measured between the two parts of the ‘Hungarian Sea’ reached 51 centimetres. According to Infóstart, the average water level of Lake Balaton was 98 centimetres on Friday. However, the extreme values of that average were astonishingly high: 80 centimetres in Balatonfűzfő and 132 centimetres in Balatonmáriafürdő.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
dailynewshungary.com | John Woods
As a result of the government’s measures, creche capacity in Hungary has increased two-fold since 2010, a state secretary at the culture and innovation ministry said on Saturday. There is capacity for 68,000 children in creches today compared with 32,500 fifteen years ago, Róbert Zsigó said in a video posted on the government’s social media page.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
dailynewshungary.com | John Woods
Vladimir Dzhabarov, First Deputy Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs and a Senator of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, believes Hungary would be ideal for President Trump and Putin to meet and discuss how to end the ongoing bloody conflict in Ukraine. According to Trump, Putin asked for the meeting. President Trump said during the election campaign that he would put an end to the ongoing violent conflict in Ukraine in no time if elected.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
dailynewshungary.com | John Woods
As we wrote, PM Orbán spends his winter holiday in India, a country yet not among the fanciest places where European or world leaders go to chill. Hungarian press suggested that Orbán went to India on an Ayurvedic healing tour with the head of a traditional Ayurvedic healing centre in Hungary, but the prime minister dismissed those allegations in a strange interview with Blikk, a Hungarian tabloid. He also said a sentence in that interview which seemingly won the hearts of many Indians.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
dailynewshungary.com | John Woods
“It’s with a heavy heart that I share the news of the recent fire that destroyed our property. It’s hard to find the words when you’re faced with something like this. The flames took so much, but we’re holding on to the memories that live on in our hearts”, Lívia Pillmann, a Hungarian top model writer, producer and award-winning actress, wrote on Instagram about the devastation. She also shared some shocking images, but does not blame anybody.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
dailynewshungary.com | John Woods
The first phase of the revamp of the railway line running between Budapest and Austria took place between 2 and 11 January successfully. The second phase started today and it will modify not only the schedule of the passenger trains commuting between the Hungarian capital and Sopron or Szombathely, but also the international trains carrying passengers on one of Hungary’s busiest lines.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
dailynewshungary.com | John Woods
Habony’s task was to establish a relationship between the newly-elected Georgian prime minister (and the country’s de facto leader, Bidzina Ivanishvili) and President Trump, but the project was unsuccessful after the Magnitsky sanctions were imposed on Minister Antal Rogán. VSquare’s Szabolcs Panyi wrote that Habony, PM Orbán’s chief spin doctor, worked in Slovakia and Poland, as well, and he also travelled to Florida to network with the Trump team.
