Current account recorded €13 billion surplus in August 2021, down from €23 billion in previous month Current account surplus amounted to €328 billion (2.8% of euro area GDP) in 12 months to August 2021, up from €176 billion (1.5%) one year earlier In financial account, euro area residents’ net acquisitions of non-euro area portfolio investment securities totalled €942 […]
In the week ending 15 October 2021 the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) remained virtually unchanged at EUR 320 billion.
Serbia has been “ready to join the EU for years” and Hungary is a committed supporter of those endeavours, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Horgoš (Horgos), in northern Serbia, on Monday, at a ceremony marking the start of the refurbishment of the railway line linking Subotica (Szabadka) and Szeged.
Additional manufacturing sites approved
EMA has started evaluating an application to extend the use of BioNTech/Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty, to children aged 5 to 11.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has thanked Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for the Hungarian government’s assistance with efforts against the coronavirus pandemic.
Hungary and the Visegrad Group countries will veto a new tax Brussels plans to introduce “under the guise of fighting climate change”, the communications director of ruling Fidesz said over the weekend.
The number of illegal border crossings at EU’s external borders in the first nine months of 2021 rose 68% to 133 900*, according to preliminary calculations. This is 47% more than in 2019 before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic when the number of illegal border crossings amounted to 91 000.
The cornerstone for the Budapest-Belgrade railway line upgrade was laid in Kiskunhalas, in southern Hungary, on Friday.
Hungary-Lithuania parliamentary ties, the coronavirus pandemic, security policy and the handling of the migration crisis were high on the agenda of talks House Speaker László Kövér had with his Lithuanian counterpart and other officials in Vilnius.
