Hungary

  • Nov 9, 2005
  • 13 min read

EASTERN EUROPE/CIS: Growth is key to cutting poverty

Although the proportion of people living on less than the benchmark 2.15 dollars a day had fallen...

Eastern Europe
  • Nov 8, 2005
  • 2 min read

EU/HUNGARY: EU ministers rap Budapest over budget

EU finance ministers said today that the Hungarian government was not trying hard enough to...

Eu
  • Nov 4, 2005
  • 2 min read

EURO-AREA: Few new members ready for euro

A European Commission report out today says the new EU entrants are lagging behind plans to join...

  • Oct 21, 2005
  • 6 min read

INTERNATIONAL: Policy announcements fail to surprise

The successful implementation of monetary policy depends largely on the predictability of...

International
  • Oct 21, 2005
  • 7 min read

HUNGARY: Planned 2006 budget gap looks short-lived

The European Commission yesterday reprimanded the government for failing to contain its budget...

Hungary
  • Oct 21, 2005
  • 2 min read

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY: H5N1 vaccine of limited use

Hungarian Health Commissioner Mihaly Kokeny yesterday announced that a vaccine developed in...

  • Oct 21, 2005
  • 2 min read

CEE: Only Slovakia looks set to join euro on time

The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland will not meet their official target of joining the...

Slovakia
  • Oct 18, 2005
  • 7 min read

EASTERN EUROPE/CIS: Chernobyl's damage was overrated

Chernobyl was the only non-military accident in the history of nuclear power to involve...