Georgian crime boss arrested in Hungary

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Former Hungarian Socialist Prime Minister Gyula Horn has died at age 80 after a long illness, the government said in a statement on Wednesday, expressing its condolences to the family. Horn was Hungary's prime minister between ...

Part of Hungary's parliament was evacuated today after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered during excavation work for a nearby underground garage. "The northern wing of the parliament and the surrounding area including the Museum of Ethnography ...

Former Hungarian prime minister Gyula Horn, who played a key role in ending communism in eastern Europe, has died in Budapest after a long illness. He was 80. Mr. Horn's death was announced Wednesday by the government in Budapest and the Hungarian ...

BUDAPEST, June 19 (Reuters) - Hungary's tax authority has questioned two men over a fake contract that, if fulfilled, would have involved the sale of nearly half a million tonnes of sugar - more than the country's annual sugar consumption - and a ...

BUDAPEST--German utility company E.On SE (EONGY) said Wednesday it wants to suspend running two combined-cycle generators in Hungary since their operation isn't profitable amid current market conditions. E.On Hungaria Zrt., the local arm of the ...

Laszlo Lajos Csatari, under house arrest in Budapest since last year, was "actively involved in and assisted the deportations" in 1944 of Jews from a ghetto in then-Hungarian Kassa, now known as Kosice in Slovakia, prosecutors said yesterday. The ...

Civil Society, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Europe, Headlines, Regional Categories BUDAPEST, Jun 18 2013 (IPS) - Monday's resignation of Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas over a massive corruption scandal may well mark a new era of judicial ...

Magyar Telekom Nyrt., the Hungarian unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE), fell to the lowest level on record after a government plan to raise taxes prompted Erste Group Bank AG to lower its recommendation on the shares. The stock dropped 0.9 percent ...

The forint fell the most in more than a week on speculation that Hungary's planned tax increases will hurt economic growth and as investors awaited a signal from the U.S. Federal Reserve about when it will taper stimulus. Hungary's currency ...