A new section of the M44 expressway was inaugurated this week connecting the M5 motorway to the town of Szentkirály drivers can now travel from Kecskemét to Békéscsaba on a continuous four-lane road significantly improving regional traffic flow and access Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and MP for Bács-Kiskun County’s 4th constituency He described the day as a long-awaited celebration for communities between the Danube and Tisza rivers noting that locals had waited more than 30 years for this moment The entire M44 expressway spans 125 kilometres and was constructed over nine years with the help of over 1,500 workers at a cost of nearly 543 billion forints funded from the national budget Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also attended the ceremony calling his cabinet the ‘government of roadbuilding’ Hungary has increased the length of its expressway network by 50 per cent while doubling the value of state assets over the past 15 years ‘Hungary can be proud of this achievement,’ he said Orbán stressed the government’s ongoing commitment to connecting all county-level cities to the expressway network and Kaposvár have been integrated into the system With the completion of this latest section of the M44 Békéscsaba now joins this ‘club’ of connected cities the Prime Minister announced further developments and M7 motorways to three lanes and to construct the new M8 motorway This future route will allow travel between western and eastern Hungary without passing through Budapest Lezsák said the opening marks more than just an infrastructure milestone—it also symbolizes the rebirth of rural life in Hungary He linked the achievement to broader rural development policies such as the Hungarian Village Programme support for rural entrepreneurs and families He pointed out that thanks to these policies population growth has restarted in over 1,200 small villages In contrast to voices within the opposition who have questioned the viability of rural settlements Lezsák reaffirmed the government’s commitment to vibrant rural communities adding that every village—no matter how small—has value with the first major segment between Tiszakürt and Kondoros opening in 2019 Additional stretches between Kondoros and Békéscsaba and Lakitelek and Tiszakürt—including the new Tisza bridge at Tiszaug—followed in subsequent years The most recent segment between the M5 motorway and Szentkirály adds a 30-kilometre dual carriageway without emergency lanes connecting to previous M44 sections and linking Békéscsaba to Hungary’s high-speed road network Hungarian Conservative is a quarterly magazine on contemporary political philosophical and cultural issues from a conservative perspective The Budapest Times will enable drivers to travel directly from Kecskemét to Békéscsaba Orbán declared that Fidesz had created ‘a government of road construction’ and had thus doubled the state’s assets within 15 years The completion of the entire M44 motorway is an important milestone in the development of the country’s transport infrastructure Traffic between Kecskemét and Békéscsaba will be faster and safer and the new section of road will also significantly relieve the surrounding side roads more jobs; the country’s last great labour reserve is in Békés County and the aim is to create opportunities here too The government previously decided that all county towns should be accessible via a motorway Sopron and Kaposvár have been connected to the motorway network M3 and M7 motorways will be expanded to three lanes over the next few years and the M8 motorway will be built so that it will be possible to travel between western and eastern Hungary without having to drive through Budapest Following the inauguration of the latest section of the M44 motorway They reviewed the economic and transport development plans of Békéscsaba in particular the tasks related to the extension of the M44 motorway to the state border and the construction of the section of the M47 motorway between Békéscsaba and Debrecen Orbán emphasised that the government’s aim is to create a new economic area in the Békéscsaba-Debrecen-Nagyszalonta triangle by expanding the M44 and M47 motorways You must be logged in to post a comment PRIVACY POLICY TERMS OF USE 2007 - 2025 BZT MEDIA Kft. 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You will receive mail with link to set new password Bracha Igaz wrote these words in her last postcard sent from the Békéscsaba ghetto in Hungary to her husband Bracha and her five children were murdered at Auschwitz Yaakov-Jenő and Bracha née Ziner and their children lived in Békéscsaba in south-east Hungary Yaakov had a small grocery store and Bracha helped with the customers Yaakov was drafted into a labor battalion and stationed in Debrecin Bracha and the children remained in Békéscsaba and Bracha and her children were confined there together with all the city's Jews She sent her last postcard on the same day the ghetto was liquidated and the Jews were transferred to the local tobacco factory Bracha and the children were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau Yaakov survived and returned to Békéscsaba He immigrated to Israel after the establishment of the State her last postcard and the memory of his five children were all that remained of his beloved family They were his most treasured possessions until his dying day In 1955, Bracha Igaz's relative, Rosa Gutman, submitted a Page of Testimony in memory of Bracha and her five children Rosa remembered the names and ages of the three oldest children: ten-year-old Tibor Bracha's family discovered the names of the two younger children: Arno and Agi was a forced laborer in the Hungarian labor battalions on the eastern front I am informing you that I am packed and ready I could have lived with the move to the factory next week we will board the cattle cars and leave the indescribable suffering of five innocent little children perhaps it would nevertheless be easier for us I can't write again because we are not permitted to take as much as a pencil with us May the good Lord let us be reunited in great joy and may we raise our darling children together Le sort des enfants juifs en France pendant la Shoah : un bref aperçu historique par Serge Klarsfeld gathered on June 26 to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the transport of the town’s Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau by unveiling the first monument to pay tribute to all 3,000 victims Békéscsaba is the birthplace of survivor Gabor Hirsch, who traveled to Poland with USC Shoah Foundation in 2015 for Auschwitz: The Past is Present He was one of four survivors who reunited in Poland to recreate the famous photo they took as children behind the barbed wire of Auschwitz after liberation Hungarian teachers who have participated in professional development programs with USC Shoah Foundation International Training Consultant Andrea Szonyi have also developed an IWalk with their students in Békéscsaba IWalks are walks around historical sites that are accompanied by Visual History Archive testimony clips on tablets/iPads that describe events of the Holocaust that happened in these very places Of the approximately 6,200 Hungarian Jews who were deported from Bekes county to various concentration camps and death camps during the Holocaust was the date that Hirsch's transport departed Békéscsaba for Auschwitz placed near Békéscsaba’s Neolog Jewish Cemetery features granite stones engraved with the name of each person who was transported from Békéscsaba and the surrounding towns to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 Hirsch said the monument is important because only about 40 Jews remain in Békéscsaba today and among them there is perhaps only one Holocaust survivor The people who will visit the monument will not be families of survivors but rather the next generation of Hungarians who have little connection to or knowledge of the Holocaust showing that there was a Jewish life before the war and thousands of Jews lived in the town,” Hirsch said Sign Up Today! Be the first to learn about new articles and personal stories like the one you've just read Digital Accessibility | Accessibility Guidelines One of the most important projects of Transelectrica The project of the 400 kV Oradea-Bekescsaba overhead line after the Government of Romania on 10 May 2018 adopted a Decision allowing the completion of expropriation procedures which are in progress for the privately-owned buildings found within the expropriation corridor of the public utility of national interest project of the 400 kV OHL Oradea-Bekescsaba The same Government Decision approved funds to install a 100 MVAr shunt reactor in the 400 kV substation Oradea Sud and to procure telecommunication and tele-transmission equipment for the 400 kV OHL Oradea-Bekescsaba “This Government Decision allows the completion of the 400kV Oradea-Bekescsaba overhead line with a value updated in 2014 of over RON 83mln The completion of this investment is of paramount importance for the safe operation of the National Power System and the Government has understood this,” the Management Board of the National Power Grid Company Transelectrica SA has stated The 400 kV OHL Oradea-Bekescsaba was commissioned only partially the 400 kV OHL Nadab (RO)-Bekescsaba (HU): 60 de km of which 22 on Romania’s territory at the same time with the 400 kV OHL Arad-Nadab The segment of the 400 kV OHL Oradea Sud-Nadab is 72 km long simple circuit A and has been partially completed The Oradea-Nadab segment will be commissioned and thus complete the 400 kV OHL Oradea-Bekescsaba thus contributing to closing the 400kV ring of the country’s electricity transmission network this line leads to avoiding congestion costs in the north-western region which last year amounted to about 39,000 Lei in March and to about 160,000 Lei in November the urgent completion of the work to the 400 kV OHL Oradea-Bekescsaba will remove the risk to impact the safety of the National Power System an ever-increasing hazard generated by the potential unavailability of the interconnection line between Romania and Ukraine (the 400 kV OHL Rosiori-Mukacevo) circumstance when maintaining the operational safety in the country’s north-western region will become extremely difficult and costly Line completion can be assimilated to providing a new flux/route of electricity supply in the country’s north-western region with significant impact over the increased operational safety the availability of electricity transmission services the capacity and resilience in case of malfunctions in the transmission infrastructure caused by major failures The commissioning of the 400 kV OHL Oradea Sud-Nadab will increase by 100 MW the export interconnection transfer capacity and by 300 MW the importer one depending on the seasonal specific internal and external factors At present Romania has got only 7% interconnection capacity against the installed capacity of the SEN compared to the 10% target provided in the European regulations for 2020 an aspect notified by the European Commission Such commissioning of the 400 kV OHL Oradea Sud-Nadab will contribute to approaching to the European target landlocked Central European country covering an area of 93,030 km2(35,920 sq mi) As observed on the physical map of Hungary dominated by the Great Hungarian Plain east of the Danube The plain includes approximately 56% of the country's land The terrain ranges from flat to rolling plains The land rises into hills and some low mountains in the north along the Slovakian border A yellow upright triangle marks the position of this highest point on the map The lowest spot (marked by a yellow inverted triangle) is 77.6 m above sea level located along the Tisza River in the south of Hungary and is navigable within Hungary for 418 km Additional rivers of note include the Drava and Tisza.Hungary has three major lakes the largest at 78 km long and from 3 to 14 km wide it is located in the west-central part of the country It's central Europe's largest freshwater lake Hungary is administratively divided into 19 counties (megyek singular - megye) and 1 capital city (fovaros) There are also 23 cities with county rights which are called ‘urban counties’(megyei jogu varosok The counties are subdivided into 174 districts while the capital city has 23 districts Hungary is a medium-sized member state of EU Located at the center of the Carpathian Basin the largest and the most populous city of Hungary Hungary is a landlocked Central European Nation It is geographically positioned both in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth It is bordered by 7 Nations: by Slovakia in the north; Ukraine in the northeast; Romania in the east; Serbia and Croatia in the south; Slovenia in the southwest and Austria in the west The blank outline map represents the territory of the sovereign landlocked nation of Hungary in Central Europe and used for coloring or map-pointing activities a landlocked country in Central Europe and a middle power in global affairs photos and original descriptions © 2025 worldatlas.com – Békéscsaba SG1 is Hungary’s first city-owned smart grid project – Convert SC Flex storage converters chosen again for its off-grid features Protect PV inverters are also part of the solar plant as a core component of the micro-grid system that the company will implement in Békéscsaba AEG Power Solutions long-time partner in the country The smart-grid project of Békéscsaba is part of the “Modern Cities” program of Hungary The objective is to supply all energy needs of the urban sport center area which includes today a general-purpose sports hall a fencing sports hall and parking lots and will be extended further with a second multifunctional sports hall and a competition swimming pool Geothermal power plants are also part of the project The sports facilities of the city will then be powered by green energy sources The time and quantity differences between the weather-dependent production and the consumption of sports facilities are compensated by a lithium-ion battery energy storage system rated at 1.2 MW power and a capacity of 2.4 MWh The energy storage system is based on lithium-ion battery modules of 7.61 kWh each installed in a fire protection rack system the systems switch seamlessly to off-grid operation and supply electricity directly from the solar power plant and energy storage to the sports facilities Convert SC flex systems make this possible by performing the necessary local network stability tasks The facilities can continue to operate even in the event of a grid power outage the microgrid is automatically reconnected thanks to the resynchronization process INFOWARE is also providing real-time energy management (EMS) and control system which performs local and remote-control tasks as well as the local smart grid center which collects data further used by the “brain” of the microgrid system allowing to minimize the cost of energy used and optimize the whole installation The Békéscsaba SG1 smart grid project will be implemented by the end of 2020 Head of Grid & Storage inside AEG Power Solutions.” During the presidential gala dinner held on Thursday evening at the Almásy Castle in Gyula President Katalin Novák emphasized the various novelties that her visit to Békés County brought President Novák mentioned that it was in Békés that for the first time as part of a county visit she hosted a foreign head of state outside Budapest was received at Gyula Castle during his visit to Hungary She shared with the attendees that initially the Moldovan Prime Minister was surprised by the proposal he thought Gyula was too far from Budapest he greatly enjoyed the city and the opportunity for the head of state to perform duties from various parts of the country one of her goals at her inauguration was to bring the periphery into focus This takes on a special meaning in a place that was once the centre of historical Hungary and has now become we managed to draw attention to Békés County.’ Reflecting on her nearly two-year presidency she acknowledged that she did not anticipate that a war would cast a shadow over a significant part of her term She realized the importance of diplomacy in her work emphasizing the need to maintain and strengthen relationships with neighbouring countries and allies worldwide Novák stressed the significance of being able to communicate with anyone who can offer mutual respect to the Hungarian people Understanding and communicating Hungarian interests behind decisions became crucial She highlighted the importance of the alliances Hungary is part of and being a good ally within these frameworks where Hungarian interests can be represented She reaffirmed her commitment to realizing the unity of the nation by strengthening Hungarian communities in their Hungarian identity and national solidarity She emphasized the importance of family and children in every encounter In Gyula, Ferenc Erkel’s birthplace, she met young talents participating in an impromptu ‘mini virtuoso competition.’ At the Csabagyöngye Cultural Centre, she engaged with contemporary artists. President Novák called attention to the need to appreciate the beauty of the created world, referring to the Hungarian plain with its farms as something familiar and homey, recalling her origins in Szeged. She acknowledged the role of women leaders in Békés County, whether at the helm of a settlement or an institution, in strengthening communities. She recalled her participation in making doughnuts for charity with women leaders in Békéscsaba. Novák also expressed her commitment to focusing on disadvantaged individuals, mentioning her visit to the Okány study hall. She was pleased to witness the assistance provided by Békés County residents, such as the Lutheran Ótemplom (Old Church) Charity Service in Szarvas, to those in need. She noted the active sports life in the county and, on Thursday, signed a presidential resolution declaring 2024 as the Year of Movement. She encouraged Hungarians to engage in physical activity and sports. During her visit in the south-eastern Hungary, in addition to sports, she also participated in cultural programmes, attending a performance at the Gyula Castle Theatre shortly after her arrival. At the gala dinner President Novák presented, for the first time, the Presidential Order of Merit she established. The first recipient was Mihály Czirok, director of the Erkel Ferenc Primary Art School in Gyula. He received the honour for his work in Gyula’s musical education and preserving Hungarian musical culture. 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The postcard will join thousands of other Holocaust-era documents artifacts and artworks to be stored in the new Shoah Heritage Collections Center which will be built at Yad Vashem in the coming years The state-of-the-art Center is part of a new Shoah Heritage Center which will house and display the vast Collections Yad Vashem has amassed over the years Yad Vashem's Online Exhibitions Coordinator Yona Kobo: "This exhibit – the fourth in a series on last letters in which all the writers were murdered in the Holocaust – gives us a glimpse into the fate of Jews in the year 1944 These letters were written 75 years ago on small pieces of paper or the back of postcards which sometimes are stained with the tears of either the senders of the recipients we can tell the story of the individual in the Shoah and restore the names and faces to the victims "My research and reconstruction of the lives and fates of these families – which are presented in the exhibit – was often very challenging due to the lack of available information sometimes only after publishing do people come forward with more documents I am delighted that the two sides of the family were able to reunite and send us more photographs and information about their loves ones so we could add them into the exhibition." The Yad Vashem website had recently undergone a major upgrade The page you are looking for has apparently been moved We are therefore redirecting you to what we hope will be a useful landing page For any questions/clarifications/problems, please contact: webmaster@yadvashem.org.il Isabella-Bella Fodor from Kolozsvár wrote these heartrending words to the adoptive family of her eight-year-old daughter Gita in Nagyvárad Isabella was deported to her death in Auschwitz was drafted to the Hungarian Army labor battalions and did not return Isabella's letter is one of the 13 last letters on display here The last letters featured in this exhibition were sent from home prisons and camps to family members and friends Among them is the last letter written by ten-year-old Jacob Hijman Marcus from Amsterdam The letters in this exhibition were sent from the Czech lands They were written in a variety of languages: Dutch Most of the letters were donated to Yad Vashem by family members as part of the national "Gathering the Fragments" project we can tell the story of the individual in the Shoah and restore the names and faces to the victims Enter Enter Enter Enter Enter Enter Enter Enter Enter "Make sure that nothing happens to any of you" Enter Enter Enter "I just hope that I will reach you alive and well" Enter followed by emigration and assimilation afterward The story of Hungarian artist Tibor Simon-Mazula “The person who enjoys art and the person who makes art they meet through a painting.” As I listened to him speak And knowing something of the heart behind the hand that held the paintbrush makes a difference We were sitting in his studio in Nyolcésfél on Nemet utca in Budapest’s eighth district talking about his work And while he illustrated his school newsletter he moved to Budapest to study to be a Landscape Designer a career at the intersection of his three chosen subjects It took just a year for him to realise this wasn’t what he wanted his future to be He went to Szeged to study for a teaching degree in Fine Arts specialising in Visual Arts and Maths and regularly took part in an art camp in Serbia in the late 90s After graduating, he went home to Békéscsaba to teach Maths and Art. There he played drums for an underground rock band and made an animated music video Grace which won a prize in Canada and was screened in independent/underground places around the world including Vancouver The dawn of the twenty-first century saw his life take another turn He quit teaching and got into computer graphics and digital art He returned to Budapest and spent his time working for a gaming company and making music videos for underground rock bands but he was in the research phase of his life My mum would buy a new painting rather than a new car I was brought up to see all forms of art as important.” He wanted to explore all aspects of visual art This journey would take seven years and find him in Dubai With his wife (and muse) Diana (a photographer and social worker) he moved to the Emirates on a short-term contract as a Creative Director with a Hungarian3D design team But two years working in a system where the colour of your passport rather than the quality of your work determines how far you could progress would dent the strongest of souls finding the antithesis of what was Dubai in San Francisco where the East and West met up with South and Central America Tibor applied to the Academy of Art University for his MFA They hit San Francisco as the city’s affordability factor was ebbing they immersed themselves in a burgeoning art scene mixing with second-generation beat poets and BoHo North Beach set; emerging artists from Taiwan Made nearly homeless with the massive rent hikes of 2012 they were saved by an art-loving couple who rented them a floor in their house at pre-2012 rates the biggest private art school in the USA at the time selected him as that year’s Emerging Artist and offered him a professionally designed two-month solo exhibition at which 10 of the 16 exhibited pieces sold Although Tibor had learned from teachers in Szeged who had grown up in the world of social realism and figurative art, and given his Maths background, his art is quite traditional in terms of lines and light and colours. And yet, his work was embraced by the Street Art scene. He exhibited alongside such famous street artists as Ben Eine and Plastic Jesus He asked how much I knew about art under communism About as much as I know about art in general While geometrical abstract art with a folk-art bent was tolerated pure/expressive abstract art was seen as rebellious I asked why his work is so popular with collectors from Seoul but I suspect because it’s rooted in traditional knowledge There’s a sensitivity with the subject and colour And a flavour of Renaissance geometric construction when it comes to structure It takes him one or two years to prepare for a show Some fly out of him in a matter of a week or two He usually works on three or four pieces in parallel The smooth commercial canvases don’t do it for him “isn’t always good.” He makes his own paint mixing pigments with oils and dusts (bone and marble) I asked how difficult it is to make a living out of art “When I have a good year (his last exhibition sold well) then I get a job.” Those seven years of research paid off This is what he can do when he’s not painting I asked if he had a favourite piece. He does. It’s called The View 2015. It’s still in San Francisco but it might make it home eventually. It’s the most travelled of his work. It’s the one that won him a place in the highly competitive Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series final the one that gilded his invitation to the street art world I asked how attached he got to his paintings and if it was hard to let them go It’s a little sad when a gallery sells a piece to someone I don’t know Then it’s gone.” His piece Dream has been bought by a new museum in Korea He knows where his most important pieces are hanging I have my eye on one of his pieces and I’d be happy to share To quote Jack Hirschman: “In an age of brash and brazenly neonic paintings mirroring the shallowest glitter – not By Me but Buy Me – pitch of time of intense consumerism the subtle magnificence of a painter like Tibor Simon-Mazula – a REAL painter – speaks to the heart and soul of the imaginative organ called the Eyes.” Mary Murphy is a freelance writer, copyeditor, blogger, and communications trainer. Read more at www.unpackingmybottomdrawer.com | www.anyexcusetotravel.com | www.dyingtogetin.com You must be logged in to post a comment The National Electricity Transmission Company Transelectrica SA signed the execution contract for the works for the completion of the Oradea Sud – Nadab section part of the Oradea – Bekescsaba 400 kV Overhead Power Line The works have a value of over 4 million lei and will be completed within 12 months by Electromontaj SA „Completion of the investment The 400 kV Overhead Power Line Oradea Sud – Nadab has been one of the priority objectives since the beginning of our mandate I found this project stuck in the process of acquiring the execution works from the moment of obtaining the Government Decision for expropriation We understood the importance of this investment for both the Company and the National Energy System and for more than half a year we have accelerated the processes and we have managed to remove all the blockages The result was as expected: we completed a public procurement process and awarded the contract for the execution of the works Thank you to the team of professionals from the Company who contributed significantly to the resumption of the investment,” said Catalin NITU President of the Management Board of CNTEE Transelectrica SA The Oradea-Bekescsaba 400 kV Overhead Power Line project has been blocked since 2008 due to difficulties encountered in the expropriation process on the Oradea Sud – Nadab section the 400 kV OHL Oradea – Bekescsaba was put into use only partially the 400 kV OHL Nadab (RO) – Bekescsaba (HU): 60 kilometers of which 22 kilometers on the Romanian territory The 400 kV OHL section Oradea Sud – Nadab has a total length of 72 km simple circuit A and is partially completed The commissioning of the Oradea Sud – Nadab section and thus the completion of the 400 kV OHL Oradea – Bekescsaba contributes to the completion of the 400 kV ring in the West with a significant impact on increasing operational safety and minimizing risks in power supply electricity of consumers in the northwestern part of the country it should be noted that the Oradea-Bekescsaba 400 kV OHL has a reliability superior to existing lines which take into account the increasing impact of meteorological phenomena the completion of this line will lead to the elimination of some costs regarding the congestions in the northwest area with an impact both on the price to the final consumer of electricity and on the income and expenditure budget of CNTEE Transelectrica SA the costs regarding the congestions in the northwest area amounted to about 1.6 million lei By completing the 400 kV OHL Oradea Sud – Nadab it will increase the interconnection transfer capacity on the export direction by 100 MW which contributes to Romania’s compliance with its obligations from the implementation of EU Regulations This investment will also play a significant role in achieving the European Union’s goal of achieving the European Single Energy Market which aims at social welfare (reducing the price of electricity to the final consumer by increasing competition and competitiveness) This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Opposition parties that do and do not have seats in parliament protested against the government as well as amendments to the labour code in Békéscsaba waving opposition party flags and banners on which “Resist!” was written the protesters walked along the city’s main street to the city hall where they listened to opposition politicians who had arrived for the demonstration already 400,000 signatures had been collected supporting Hungary’s joining the European Public Prosecutor’s Office the head of the Liberals and an independent MP said the opposition is bound together by the needs of the “true republic” civil organisations and unions will continue joint demonstrations to bring about “a new change of system” Democratic Coalition lawmaker Ágnes Vadai asked people to challenge the government on the labour code amendment passed in a year which was dedicated to supporting families Conservative Jobbik MP Andrea Varga-Damm said the “slave law” had brought together the diverging ideologies of the opposition to achieve a common goal “The European parliamentary elections will be the day of the new change of system” LMP board member Kálmán Kis-Szeniczey called for a boycott of the “slave law” said the opposition should pit single candidates against each Fidesz representative in the upcoming local council elections said the crowd gathered in Bekescsaba was evidence that people are not afraid and are again expressing their political views said at most two in a hundred workers agree to work overtime and only because they can’t earn enough to provide for their families The amendments to the labour code, approved by parliament in December, raised the annual threshold for overtime from 250 to 400 hours. 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ORBÁN HAILS “SLAVE LAW”, OPPOSITION PROTESTS President János Áder has signed an amendment to the labour code the president’s office said on its website and website in this browser for the next time I comment Y"},"category":false,"taxonomy":{"active":false,"name":"category"}},"markup":{"custom_html":true,"wpp-start":"","wpp-end":"<\/ul>","title-start":"","title-end":"<\/h2>","post-html":"{thumb} {title} {stats}<\/span>{excerpt}<\/p><\/li>"},"theme":{"name":""}} You have successfully joined our subscriber list © 2025 DailyNewsHungary | All rights reserved Hungary has been famous for its many traditional festivals but the Csabai Sausage Festival occupies a special place among them for sure this festival became one of the biggest ones in Hungary It welcomes tens of thousands of visitors not only from Hungary but also from all around the world but some foreigners even try to win the awards and make their own sausage specialities during the contest According to bigseventravel.com fall “might spell the end of long sunny days but it also signals the start of the harvest combined with baggier and thicker clothing makes it the perfect time of year to tuck into the tastiest things you can find.” Therefore they recommend everybody to “stop mourning the end of summer and start planning your foodie getaway.” the global travel site revealed The 25 Best Autumn Food Festivals In Europe With many countries in Europe now open and eager for visitors these food festivals will inspire future trips and hopefully boost these local economies the Csabai Sausage Festival won the silver medal Here is a video about how the atmosphere is regularly in the festival: they have been checking out suggestions from their audience as well as contributions from their editorial team They also followed certain criteria for the ranking original and postponed festival dates and attendance numbers They have narrowed it down to really find the best Europe has to offer these became the top 10 best autumn festivals in Europe in 2021: Galway International Oyster and Seafood Festival Perugia (Italy)The Great British Food Festival Yorkshire (United Kingdom)The International White Truffle Festival Bruges (Belgium)Montmartre Grape Harvest Festival For the complete list of The 25 Best Autumn Food Festivals In Europe, click HERE The Hungarian road-building industry has reached a historic moment as the westernmost section of the M44 motorway was opened in the Kecskemét area on 15 April Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended the event The new section will be opened to traffic today The 32.3-kilometre section between Szentkirály and Kecskemét was built by Hódút Építő Kft. After the completion of the Ministry of Construction and Transport’s project a four-lane road from the M5 motorway to Békéscsaba a total of 127 kilometres of four-lane roads were completed between Békéscsaba and the M5 motorway in a series of projects launched 8.5 years ago: 18 km between Kondoros and Békéscsaba and 62 km between Tiszakürt and Kondoros The 10 km Lakitelek-Tiszakürt section was built together with the new Tiszaug bridge followed by 4.6 km between Szentkirály and Tiszakürt and the final step was the 32.3 km Kecskemét-Szentkirály section opened today which has a comprehensive and consistent development background: the foundation stone of the longest section (62 km Tiszakürt-Kondoros) was laid in October 2019 handed over the road in a decade-old record The last time such a long section of motorway was completed in the country at the same time was in 2002 and there has been no precedent since then The next milestone was reached a year later was opened for traffic by Duna Aszfalt Zrt Built as the fourth four-lane Tisza bridge in Hungary the total length of the crossing is 556 metres and the ellipsoidal gateway makes the bridge structure unique in Europe Hodut Epito completed the latest stretch for gross HUF 185bn (EUR 450m) The project is not completely finished because although Békéscsaba can be reached from Budapest by motorway the last junction from Békéscsaba is not yet fully motorway accessible a motorway junction at the junction of the M5 motorway and the five main roads is currently being built by Hódút Építő Kft According to MagyarÉpítők more than 1,500 people worked on the project which was built with almost HUF 543 billion (EUR 1,31bn) of domestic funding over nine years Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed that since 2010 the length of motorways has increased one and a half times M3 and M7 motorways will be widened to three lanes allowing people to travel between western and eastern Hungary without going through Budapest According to a press release issued by ÉKM for the press event the 14-unit artificially-engineered section has been built with the crossing national roads and dirt roads above the motorway the Cegléd-Szeged railway line has been routed under the planned motorway the Csillik Rest at the beginning of the section has been equipped with motion-sensitive street lighting For those travelling in the direction of Budapest (on the left side of the section) parking spaces with solar shading brackets have been added to reduce the rest area’s overheads Hungary’s sour cherry season has commenced The National Chamber of Agriculture (Nemzeti Agrárgazdasági Kamara – NAK) and FruitVeB the Hungarian Fruit and Vegetable Interbranch Organisation and Product Council (Magyar Zöldség-Gyümölcs Szakmaközi Szervezet és Terméktanács) highlights that this year’s harvest promises high-quality Hungary is the third largest producer of sour cherries in Europe. Their unique taste, flavor, and nutritional value make these fruits highly sought after abroad, writes Agrotrend The harvesting of early sour cherry varieties has recently begun Hungarian sour cherries will continue to appear in shops and markets The sour cherry harvest typically begins in the Danube-Tisza area and concludes in the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg region sour cherries are cultivated on 13,000 hectares in Hungary with the largest production areas found in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Győr-Moson-Sopron and Bács-Kiskun counties On average, the annual sour cherry yield reaches around 60 thousand tonnes Experts predict a near-average quantity this year inclement weather during the flowering period and temperature fluctuations during fruit set While these factors have led to a significant reduction in crop setting This will result in a national harvest that may be only 15-20 percent lower than last year The increased use of crop protection measures has helped mitigate the damage caused by moniliaceous infestation Based on a survey conducted by the National Chamber of Agriculture and FruitVeB the most extensively cultivated sour cherry varieties in Hungary include Érdi bőtermő A considerable amount is used for cherry preserves In general, Hungarian sour cherries find applications in various industries, including canning, refrigeration (frozen), juice production, fresh markets, drying and pálinka production So who.is the winner the Hungarian customer at home or the companies that grow the pruduct for export. the companies that grow it are the winners not Hungarians at home who as a whole will pay more for it compared with the wages people earn nextdoor… dont choke on the pip… 🫠🙃 Practically every town has a weekly market day Get your fresh local Hungarian products from the local farmer´s market That way the growers get a decent price and customers get to choose the freshest and nicest quality Many Hungarian residents enjoy trying and eating different kind of gastronomical delicacies from each part of the country Not only Hungarian people but many tourists are keen on getting to know the cultural and traditional features of another country’s gastronomy; many of them visit Hungary for only its dining habits Although the capital is still the first in the category of best restaurants there are fifty-four other honourable mentions outside Budapest There are several places outside the capital with an extraordinary menu which consists of many traditional meals and special ones as well Besides the general traditional Hungarian meals it is important for every county to emphasise their own gastronomy and to include regional meals on their menus – making them even more spectacular among others it is recommended to try out every county’s speciality the fish soup in Baja or the meat-pancakes in Hortobágy the gastro-revolution in Hungary takes place in its counties as the market of the trademarked products in each country are more popular day by day These products wear trademarks because they are specialised in the counties’ culture and traditions These products only contain natural ingredients from the manufacturer county emphasise the region’s culture and traditions provide rare and unique Hungarian cultural features and have the best quality in the county Gastronomy develops rapidly in Hungary but not just in Budapest restaurants with high standards and exceptional features can be found and that is why it is highly recommended to conquer Hungarian counties and not just the capital if we are looking for something special to eat Another major advantage for these restaurants is that they only work with Hungarian ingredients – tasty fruits Featured image: www.facebook.com/magyargulyasetterem the 25th anniversary of the Csabai Sausage Festival begins so many sausages will be made that their combined length would encircle Békéscsaba the director of the Csabai Sausage Festival pointed out that the biggest attractions of the festival are the kneading competitions There can be more than a thousand teams stuffing sausages The length of the sausages made in four days would stretch around Békéscsaba The opening day is free of charge. On Thursday, a sausage making competition for kindergarten and primary school children will be held, with over 100 teams expected. On Friday, it will be the turn of high school and university students, writes sokszinuvidek.hu Saturday is the day of the most interesting international fresh sausage making competition large families and people with fewer opportunities The Csabai Kolbászklub is one of the most populous NGOs in Békéscsaba Not only gastronomy but also music is a central theme of the festival folk dancing and dog shows are among the programmes Detailed programme can be found on the Csabai Sausage Festival website