Finance Minister: Support for Local Councils to Increase in 2023 The financial support available for local councils will increase by 95 billion forints (EUR 238m) next year, Finance Minister Mihály... 2022.06.29.
LMP Pledges to Return Powers,and Funding to Local Govt’s Should the opposition receive the mandate to form a government after the spring election, it will return funds and powers... 2022.01.10.
Opposition after Meeting Macron: Strong Europe Needed In connection with Emmanuel Macron's visit to Budapest on Monday, the Budapest mayor's office issued a statement that the French... 2021.12.14.
Budapest Leadership Says Plan to Sell City Hall was Taken Off Table Long Ago As a new recording was leaked in connection with the sale of City Hall, Budapest's leadership hasn't ruled out that... 2021.11.11.
Hungarian State Acquires Right of First Refusal Over Most Valuable Residential Properties in Budapest Following a change in the law on heritage protection, the Hungarian state now has the right of first refusal for... 2021.10.06.
Parl. Passes Controversial New Housing Law Allowing Council Apartments to Be Sold Underpriced Hungary’s parliament passed the government’s recent bill on housing into law, allowing for state-owned or council apartments to be purchased... 2021.06.17.
Parliament Passes Hungary’s 2022 Budget Hungary's parliament passed into law the government's 2022 budget in a final vote on Tuesday. The budget passed with 132... 2021.06.15.
Parliament Passes Hungary’s 2022 Headline Budget Parliament on Tuesday passed into law the main figures of the government's 2022 budget, together with amendments by parliament's budget... 2021.06.08.
Local Assemblies Allowed to Reconvene from June 15 Municipal assemblies will be allowed to reconvene and meet as they had prior to the introduction of the special legal... 2021.06.07.
LMP Speculates Local Councils to be ‘Blackmailed’ into Transferring Water Works to State Opposition LMP on Monday accused the government of intending to use a draft amendment to Hungary's energy laws to "blackmail"... 2021.06.01.
Watered-Down Housing Act Still Unacceptable for Many On the heels of loud debate regarding the sale of council-owned rental flats, Fidesz has eventually moved to take one... 2021.05.27.
Free Parking to End in Hungary As epidemic data shows declining numbers, the government announced the end of country-wide free parking from the day after Pentecost... 2021.05.20.
Opposition Slams Govt Proposal on Sale of Council-owned Rentals Opposition district leaders on Wednesday lambasted the government's proposal to privatise apartments owned by Budapest district councils, originally used as... 2021.05.19.
Even Fidesz Mayors Criticize Bill on Sale of Council-Owned Flats Even some of ruling Fidesz's mayors have grown critical with the draft bill that would enable virtually all the current... 2021.05.19.
Opposition DK Mayors Protest Plans of ‘Selling Off’ Housing Stock Deputy mayor of Budapest Erzsébet Gy. Németh and the mayors of five districts delegated by the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK)... 2021.05.15.
Fidesz’s New Bill on Sale of Council-Owned Properties Draws Criticism A fresh draft bill by ruling Fidesz would enable current tenants of council properties to buy them at a fraction... 2021.05.14.
Fidesz Mayor Szita: Compensation for ‘Left-wing Cities’ Higher than for Pro-govt Ones Central government compensation for lost local council revenues has been higher in cities run by left-wing councils than those headed... 2021.05.11.
Budapest Mayor Presents Alternative Plan to Use of Recovery Funds Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony on Sunday presented an alternative plan on the use of the European Union's pandemic recovery fund,... 2021.05.10.
Budapest Mayor Slams Govt Over Missing Business Tax Revenue Compensations Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony on Thursday slammed the government for what he said was a failure to keep its promise... 2021.05.07.
Karácsony: Budapest Residents Should Get to Decide on City’s Future Decisions on the future of Budapest should be left up to its residents "and not the government's confidants", Gergely Karácsony,... 2021.05.05.
Audit Office Welcomes Review Findings Outlining Low Risk of Graft at Local Councils The State Audit Office's review of the compliance of local authorities in tackling corruption has yielded "surprisingly good results", uncovering... 2021.04.13.
