Lunes a jueves desde 8:30h a 17:30hViernes desde 8:00h a 15:00h Monday- Thrusday from 8:30h to 17:30hFriday from 8:00h to 15:00h Horario de verano:Durante los meses de julio y agosto.De lunes a viernes desde 8:00h a 15:00h Summer hours: During the months of July and AugustMonday- Friday from 8:00h a 15:00h By 2022-07-28T08:00:00+01:00 HUNGARY: Investment company Magyar Vagon has become sole owner of the Dunakeszi Járműjavító coach factory by acquiring the 50% stake in the TMH Hungary Invest joint venture which was previously held by the TMH International subsidiary of Russian rolling stock group Transmashholding Magyar Vagon said it aims to make Dunakeszi Járműjavító a flagship for Hungarian railway manufacturing and is aiming for further market expansion The acquisition includes responsibility for completing the contract to supply 676 Hungarian-built coaches to Egyptian National Railways; more than half of these have so far been completed SPAIN: The Spanish government has vetoed the proposed acquisition of 100% of rolling stock manufacturer Talgo by Hungarian consortium Ganz Mavag Europe, saying confidential analysis had determined that the deal posed ‘a risk to national security and public order’ logistics and energy company Acemil has signed a co-operation agreement with CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co covering the purchase of locomotives and the joint establishment of production capacity in Hungary The parties have agreed to set up four joint centres in Hungary in the fields .. SPAIN: Hungarian consortium Ganz-Mavag Europe has put forward a €619m offer to buy 100% of Talgo the Spanish government is not keen to see the company in foreign ownership and options including a potential takeover by CAF are reportedly .. Site powered by Webvision Cloud 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 More than 200 local actors gathered in Budapest last Friday to celebrate their life-changing achievements with the help of EU funds 2014-2020: 10.000 additional places in nurseries over 2.000 primary healthcare units renovated 3.700 hectares of new business parks in less developed settlements and 65.000 people trained 750 km new bicycle roads – to name but a few The event marked the end of the two territorial programmes funding until year end investments in the less developed regions of Hungary and the more developed Central Hungary region with some EUR 4.6 billion almost one fifth of European cohesion policy funding 2014-2020 aiming at reducing disparities of development across the country Minister Navracsics showed his appreciation for the 13.000 supported projects which contributed to closing the gap between the more and the less developed regions and thanked the European Commission for the funds which contributed to “Hungary becoming more liveable and competitive” Щоб переглянути сайт, увімкніть JavaScript у своєму браузері Text description provided by the architects. Boglands are complex natural wetland ecosystems. They are like swamps and marshes, but their living environment and their soil is more complex, therefore they are more fragile. Hundreds of years ago Budapest was surrounded by boglands due to the proximity of the Danube River. But through centuries we drained them and now a very few hectares exist only. One of them is completely untouched and is between one of the biggest shopping centres, and the M0 highway in the suburbs of Budapest. It is a magical land where large numbers of species find their shelter surrounded by a completely not welcoming urban environment. Out of the 265 bird species that settle in Hungary you can find 50 there, on a relatively small portion of land. © Szabolcs MolnárNHOOD Services Hungary Ltd. who handles the land decided to develop an Educational trail here, to show the richness of this natural environment and introduce its importance to the wider audience. They invited us for a tender to design and build the architecture of the trail, and we won the tender in 2022. © Szabolcs MolnárWith this feature our work connects to those ideas which are rooted in the contemporary observations, that edifices no longer can be attached to big cultural or societal narratives anymore but only can be compositions of forms and spaces of sense-making. Concept Drawing 02The significant blue colour of the structures comes from the fact that blue and violet colours are the rarest colours in the nature. Hence this basic colour also connects the structures to the concept of highlighting the inevitable human touch. If something is blue in a natural environment than it is probable that it was made by human.  © Szabolcs MolnárOn the timber frameworks of the pavilions plants can easily run up in the upcoming years and according to our early idea, the future look of the pavilions and the trail will be closer to the visual feature of the paint of René Magritte The Blank Signature. On that picture the figure of a woman on a horse is surrealistically faded between trees, just as we wanted to hide and highlight our stepped shaped structures at the same time within the natural environment. © Szabolcs MolnárFrom a constructor point of view the biggest challenge was to founding the trail and the pavilions on a marsh. Because of this difficulty the whole trail is a series of relatively short bridges with 6 meters length. With this we were able to reduce the number of ground screws from which finally we used 240 pieces and each of them were screwed down to the depth of 6 meters, where the first solid layer of the ground lays onto which it was possible to found the groundscrews. © Szabolcs MolnárThe whole construction needed 10.000 meters timber beam and 60.000 woodscrews and was realised if four months The biggest structure that was deployed to the place is the 15 meters long bridge that make possible to reach the bogland this is the first bridge that was designed by Paradigma Ariadné You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email one of the major subsidiaries of the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) with the majority of the company’s ownership transferring to a Hungarian private market participant This move aims to bring a much-needed transformation to the four-decade-old railway vehicle fleet Approximately 75 per cent of MÁV Vagon Ltd is set to change hands to private ownership, as confirmed by the MÁV-Volán Group This decision was made by the government and follows earlier signals from Transport Minister János Lázár emphasizing the need to introduce private capital into the company this change will enhance the efficiency of railway vehicle development and maintenance within the group MÁV has highlighted that involving private capital can streamline the processes of maintaining and manufacturing railway vehicles the company has also underscored that MÁV Vagon will continue to be a subsidiary of MÁV-Volán meaning that the alteration in ownership structure will not impact the terms of employment for the company’s workforce The new majority owner of the company will be Magyar Vagon Ltd a key player in the Hungarian railway vehicle manufacturing and maintenance market known as the owner of the Dunakeszi Járműjavító The signing of the contract is expected to take place in mid-October Magyar Vagon Ltd has a connection to the Solva II Private Equity Fund the ownership resolution of Magyar Vagon Ltd indicates that Gran Private Equity Ltd acted on behalf of the Solva II Private Equity Fund as the sole owner exercising the rights of Magyar Vagon Ltd affiliated with the President and CEO of MOL is the seventh most influential individual in Hungary MÁV Vagon Ltd’s development capabilities and manufacturing capacity can effectively support these objectives this transaction may also facilitate the market financing of vehicle manufacturing Sources: Hungarian Conservative/MÁV-Volán-Group/VG Hungarian Conservative is a quarterly magazine on contemporary political philosophical and cultural issues from a conservative perspective By 2024-08-29T09:00:00 Already have an account? LOG IN You’ve reached your limit of content for the month Register for free now We have explored the business successes of Péter Szijjártó’s old colleague and teammate and how hundreds of millions of forints of public money from the Foreign Ministry contributed to them Szilárd Benkő is an old friend of Péter Szijjártó Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Having played football together for the Dunakeszi Kinizsi futsal team Benkő accompanied Szijjártó throughout his political career and was his closest colleague for many years when he left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying he wanted to continue his career in the private sector Although Benkő has indeed been active in business in recent years, photos published by 444.hu show that in 2020 Benkő was on the yacht Lady MRD where the Foreign Minister was on holiday with his family incognito and specifically with the foreign ministry headed by Szijjártó received nearly 300 million HUF in non-refundable state funding from a back office of Szijjártó’s ministry Companies in difficulty due to the coronavirus pandemic could apply for this money to avoid having to fire their employees EUTEK  guaranteed to save 4 jobs and invest 560 million HUF It is not clear what kind of investment was carried out but the company ended the year with a profit of almost 260 million the company decided to pay a dividend of 750 million HUF In 2022 Benkő also became a 95 per cent owner of a construction company with billions in revenues through a company is a company that has been operating for decades and has won large government contracts in recent years including a 2 billion HUF hospital construction project in 2020 he also bought a property management company from pro-government investors who previously operated the Buddha Bar Hotel Benkő thus became the owner of two properties on the elegant Budapest street We sent questions to Szilárd Benkő about the purchase price of VER-BAU and the subsidy granted to EUTEK According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFA) which Benkő’s company benefited from was a great success and created 12,600 jobs MFA did not answer specific questions about Szilárd Benkő has the original qualification of an instrument maker He has been preparing for a career in music since childhood graduating from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest with a degree in instrument making he taught knowledge of stringed instruments at a college in Győr he has spoken about his award-winning violins and in 2002 he was elected as the leader of Fidelitas the political youth organization of Fidesz he became press secretary to Péter Szijjártó who also started his career from Fidelitas Győr Later Benkő worked for the Győr municipality and in 2007 became a senior advisor to the Fidesz mayor Zsolt Borkai His position in the local elite was reflected in his appointment to the board of the city handball team It was at this time that Benkő began to be attacked by the local opposition over a consultancy contract had contracted to provide consultancy services to the Fidesz-led Győr municipality however at the time of the contract Benkő was a member of a city council committee and was also Péter Szijjártó’s campaign manager Benkő was transferred to the Prime Minister’s Office in 2011 according to a document uploaded on Kormány.hu he became a leading member of Szijjártó’s staff he also became a player for Dunakeszi Kinizsi According to a video posted on the team’s YouTube channel Benkő – nicknamed Sziszi – is one of the founders of the club Szijjártó also started to play in the team at the same time Szijjártó was appointed for State Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office while Szilárd Benkő was appointed Chief of Cabinet Benkő also accompanied his boss on his professional trips abroad and a TV report was made about their trip to Vietnam in 2012 Szijjártó talks about the advantages of opening up to the East and his appointment as state secretary but the cameras also accompany him to the gym where he and Benkő train together in the red jerseys of the Dunakeszi team Several people from Dunakeszi Kinizsi and its surroundings have found positions in the Prime Minister’s Office and later in the MFA the club’s former managing director became a protocol officer at the Prime Minister’s Office and then head of protocol at the MFA the MFA said in response to HVG’s question about futsal player officials that they never took into account or had any say in what hobby their staff members pursued in their free time When Szijjártó moved up the ranks again in 2014 replacing Tibor Navracsics as Minister of Foreign Affairs Benkő remained unchanged in his position as Chief of Cabinet As Vs.hu’s investigation at the time revealed Benkő did not have sufficient qualifications to hold the position of Chief of Cabinet so he officially worked as the coordinator of the Cabinet’s operations MFA admitted at that time that Benkő did not have the right qualifications for the position but argued that the law allowed him to be employed under certain conditions Vs.hu revealed that Benkő’s salary in this status was close to 900 thousand HUF and that he used a Mercedes SUV as a company car which’s new version costed more than 17 million HUF The MFA’s reaction to all this was that the car was not new and had already ran hundreds of thousands of kilometers Benkő’s departure from the MFA in 2015 did not completely break the link with resources and opportunities offered by the state Just a few months before his leaving from the MFA a decision in favor of Benkő’s interests was made at a meeting of the Committee for Urban Management and Finance of the then Fidesz-led 8th District Municipality of Budapest The municipality put up for sale two properties in a prominent location on Rákóczi Road which at the time belonged to Zsuzsanna Benkőné Sárvári and later became the property of Szilárd Benkő both of them lived in the same house in Fertőd Direkt36 asked Szilárd Benkő about his relationship with Zsuzsanna Benkőné Sárvári The municipality asked 38.3 million HUF for the approximately 300 square meter properties but they were not to be paid immediately: 20 percent was asked for when the contract was signed and the remaining 30 million HUF was to be collected over the following five years According to the data sent to Direkt36 by Ingatlan.com at that time in that part of the district each of the municipal properties could have been worth more than 38 million HUF One of the properties is an instrument shop now run by a company formerly also owned by Szilárd Benkő The company is now owned by a woman with the same surname as Benkő – but the shop employee could not say who owns the shop and the manager refused to answer Direkt36’s questions Benkő acquired stakes in a series of companies: not only a musical instrument retailer and from 2018 he became owner of a construction company The construction industry was hit hard by the coronavirus in 2020 but Benkő’s business was helped out by the state Eutek received a large amount of state funding in 2020 as non-repayable grant This nearly 300 million HUF came from the ministry of Péter Szijjártó set up a fund called the Competitiveness Increasing Support Program to provide funds to companies that had been hit by the economic difficulties caused by the pandemic but were prepared to invest in new projects while retaining their employees it has committed to retaining four jobs and investing a total of 560 million HUF Eutek received almost the maximum amount of aid available Among the other winning applicants, there was a company that pledged to keep 286 jobs for a similar amount of aid, and most of the companies applied with a pledge multiple times higher than the commitment of Eutek. All these information are from a 2021 document uploaded to Kormány.hu but the ministry also released a list of winning applicants in October this year in response to a data request from Átlátszó The period of the coronavirus did not cause a drop in the company’s revenues they earned 490 million HUF profit in 2021 the management decided to pay a dividend of 750 million HUF About half of this could go to Benkő based on his ownership stake He has been the sole owner of Eutek since the beginning of 2022 Direkt36 has sent a number of questions to the MFA about the support for Eutek and Szilárd Benkő in which they describe the success of the Competitiveness Increasing Support Program which they say has helped to save 270,000 jobs and create 12,600 new ones they did not respond to our specific questions about Szilárd Benkő the most profitable of Benkő’s companies is not Eutek which has a turnover of billions and a profit of hundreds of millions of forints he became a 95 percent owner of Ver-Bau Ltd. The annual revenue of this company has been around 5 billion HUF in the last years and in 2021 it increased to 10.8 billion HUF The company’s revenues are also significantly boosted by public funds and in recent years – before Benkő acquired the company – they received public procurement contracts worth hundreds of millions of forints in the framework of a hospital construction project the State Health Care Centre contracted Ver-Bau for nearly 2 billion HUF but they also received a parking lot construction contract from the municipality of Kecskemét and an industrial land development contract from the municipality of Kerekegyháza The company has also won several EU tenders with almost 100 million HUF awarded in 2020 Direkt36 asked Benkő how much it cost him to acquire a 95 percent stake in Ver-Bau Ltd. as he did not previously own a company of this size so it is not clear from what source and how he got it Benkő declined to respond to this question The businessman has also recently entered the real estate market in the summer of 2022 he became owner of a company called BP5 Ingatlan BP5 is a real estate marketing company with assets of nearly 500 million HUF The company owns at least two properties – both located in one of the busiest parts of Andrássy Avenue near the Opera – with mortgages worth hundreds of millions of forints The real estate company was previously part of the Mellow Mood group which is owned by Sameer Hamdan and Zuhair Awad wealthy businessmen with interests in the Hungarian hotel industry The two Palestinian-Jordanian businessmen were awarded the Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary by the Fidesz government in 2012 Their interests also included the Buddha Bar Hotel which was inaugurated by Viktor Orbán himself in 2012 and the renovated luxury hotel in the Párisi Udvar which was inaugurated by Péter Szijjártó in 2019 The Mellow Mood group did not respond to our enquiries about the sale of the Andrássy Avenue properties and Szilárd Benkő Hungary's new Defense Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky took office last month He is a former Hungarian ambassador to London and a businessman active in gambling through Hungarian Rail Investment Assets Management bought half of the shares in Transmashholding Hungary the Russian-Hungarian consortium that won the bid to manufacture and deliver 1,300 railcars worth €1 billion to Egypt Russian company Transmash retained the remaining 50 percent stake The deal was backed by Hungary's and Russia's Eximbank and the railcars are partially assembled at the formerly state-owned MÁV Dunakeszi repair facility which was sold by the government in 2020 to Hungary's Transmashholding Invest Szalay-Bobrovniczky in September 2021 also became the owner of an 80 percent stake in Aero Vodochody thanks to a €133 million loan from the Hungarian Development Bank Hungarian Defense Forces announced that it would buy twelve jets manufactured by Aero Vodochody Media reports indicate that the business he is running is not legally compatible with the position he holds but Szalay-Bobrovniczky – as he indicated at a parliamentary hearing – considers these investments necessary for "the Hungarian national interest." 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Terms of Service Trademarks Privacy Policy 2018 Warsaw Business Journal which is presumably why he fetched no more than 2,000 guineas when sold at auction as a yearling a string of 15 wins broken only by a single and widely seen as their best racehorse since Kincsem who came to England in the 19th century and won the Goodwood Cup Overdose will make his British debut in the Temple Stakes at Haydock If you have any liking for horse racing and more than an ounce of romance in your soul with the exception of the Prix de l'Abbaye of 2008 a top-class sprint race at Longchamp on Arc day One of his rivals had been held in her starting stall by a faulty gate but Overdose was among those who kept running right to the line and there was no way he could take part when the race was rerun a few hours later In light of his subsequent injury problems that may have been his big chance to prove his worth But there could yet be another because his target is the King's Stand Stakes on day one of Royal Ascot next month This week, I was one of a handful of journalists who spent time with the horse and his owner, Zoltan Mikoczy, at a stable in Sussex. I wrote about the experience here but I didn't have nearly enough space to explain all the things that make this beast fascinating Here are five more stories about Hungary's horse even though every hack is required to use that phrase in the first paragraph of each report about him Though he's done most of his racing at Kincsem Park Overdose does not live in the Hungarian capital He is based at the Alag training centre about 20km from the city in a town called Dunakeszi Unless we're going to start naming horses after the tracks at which they do well The original intention was to call him Orient Express but Mikoczy was told that name wasn't available as Mikoczy could hardly talk about any other subject but his daughter eventually came up with a winning alternative You find out a horse's limits when he is beaten but that has only happened once to Overdose and it was the sort of run that you just have to put a line through He lost his head and the race before the start things might have been OK if the race had been over five furlongs on a sound surface but he was a spent force by the end of six on soft Perhaps you think that race exposed his limitations and maybe in the fullness of time it will seem so the circumstances are easily extenuating enough to refrain from judgment though Gary Hind did ease him down so that the winning margin was only half a length on his comeback last year But those races may not have taken much winning because none of them was a Group One (not even an Italian Group One!) and only two were Group Twos The most he has ever won in a single outing was £35,000 a proper Group Two with Group One winners in the field He could easily be good enough and I hope he is but we really have very little clue on the subject is a country keen for sporting success but chagrin and frustration have been easier to come by You probably don't remember the 1954 World Cup final The team had been unbeaten for four years and were facing a side that they had beaten 8-3 earlier in the tournament A recent study has suggested that some of the German players were injected with methamphetamines before the game and Hungarians are understandably ready to believe it Overdose's non-victory in the Prix de l'Abbaye is not quite on the same level but it was seen as exactly the sort of thing that would happen to a representative of their hard-done-by country And there are even those who are prepared to suggest that someone tampered with the stall that didn't open would be the least likely to stop if there was a false start and might burn through his energy was a hold-up horse whose jockey was able to ease him down quickly upon realising that the first race was not really a race I can see its attraction for outraged fans of the horse On YouTube, someone has spliced together the original race, "won" by Overdose, and the eventual rerun won by Marchand D'Or, sans Overdose. You can see the result here The two winners seem to reach the line at exactly the same moment A foot problem kept Overdose on the sidelines from April 2009 to July the following year and Mikoczy says there was a point when he really believed he would have to call time on Overdose's career as a racehorse with the help of a vet and a blacksmith from Amanda Perrett's yard in Sussex where Overdose was stabled at the beginning of his troubles two years ago He had arrived with the aim of taking part in the 2009 Temple Stakes A nail from one of his shoes is said to have caused an infection Overdose managed to alter the shape of a hoof with the way he responded and adapted to the pain and it had to be gradually reshaped once the problem had been cleared up Mikoczy says he is now set on winning a Group One with him so that the horse can earn his place at a high-profile stud The owner was so clear in this ambition that I asked him what would have happened if Overdose had actually won the 2008 Abbaye So the silver lining from that Longchamp debacle is that we are still able to marvel at this smashing animal and turn up at the races in the hope of seeing something amazing from him It is a long way from his Hungarian home to his temporary base in Sussex but Overdose did not make the journey in the equine equivalent of a private jet He covered almost every yard in an ordinary trailer of the kind that posh parents use to get Portia's pony to the gymkhana he likes to be able to see the countryside whizzing by which is possible in a trailer but would not be in the sort of enormous four-horse lorry that most trainers rely upon use one of those while on the cross-Channel ferry so he would have some space to stretch his legs having made overnight stops in Bratislava and Cologne so the plan was to do the journey in stages and avoid him being cooped up for more than a few hours at a time One of the things that sends him a bit potty If his trailer gets caught in traffic and its speed drops below a certain level he starts to fret and paws at the floor in frustration apparently gave 60mph as the minimum speed with which Overdose is content I really hope something was lost in translation at this point because many of the trailers I've seen could not be trusted to retain their structural integrity if asked to keep up such a brisk clip for more than a few seconds 60mph is the upper limit allowed for vehicles towing trailers in this country it's fun to think of the racehorse with road rage Mikoczy spends most of his time thinking about Overdose which is why he has discovered so many quirks in the animal's nature and I wish all owners and trainers could discuss their horses with such knowledge and enthusiasm To listen to him was to form dark thoughts about all those people who finding themselves in the winner's enclosure offer the waiting press a cursory: "He's a nice horse and he'll win his races We're very pleased and we'll have a think about where we go next." I have spent a lot of time this year chewing over the behaviour and habits of Long Run and Frankel Surely it is not just the very best horses that show signs of having a personality There is only one Overdose but there are probably plenty of racehorses who resemble him in one way or another jockeys and owners could be bothered to tell us about them Egyptian National Railways (ENR) expects to award a contract to supply 700 train coaches in the next few months The frontrunners are Hungary’s Ganz Motor and Dunakeszi The final price is still under negotiation Hungarian Export-Import Bank has signed a letter of intent to extend a €900m ($1bn) loan to Egypt to finance the purchase of the coaches The loan has a 12-year tenor plus five years’ grace at an annual interest rate of 1.26 per cent ENR will also receive a €100m grant covering 80 carriages Russia’s Transmasholding was also competing for the contract after it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ENR to supply and finance the 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were alerted to the scene A man in his 60s was taken to hospital by ground ambulance with minor injuries Featured image: illustration, depositphotos.com 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 SupportUs Newsletter © 2025 DailyNewsHungary | All rights reserved The Dunakeszi Workshop (Dunakeszi Járműjavító Ltd.) has a Chinese supertrain stationed and Világgazdaság wanted to know whether that superfast iron horse would carry passengers in Hungary Experts regularly say that the problem with the slowness of the Hungarian railway system is not caused by the slow trains but by the many slow signs on the outdated Hungarian railway system it was surprising to see the Chinese CRRC’s double-deck EMU model in a workshop in Dunakeszi The number of passengers it can carry is more than 1,280 The Chinese CRRC is the world’s largest train manufacturer Being made of light aluminium and other composite materials, the Chinese DDEMU’s weight is just 10% above the weight of single-deck trains’, Világgazdaság wrote it has 1.5-meter doors to help passengers get on and off passengers’ experience includes board services like snack and coffee machines bike storing zones and places for disabled passengers there is intelligent Wi-Fi and a real-time passenger information system CRRC has been supplying the European market with EMU trains for long they delivered the first to the Austrian Westbahn a railway company operating trains between Vienna Westbahn signed the relevant contract to lease four DDEMUs from the CRRC in 2019 The Austrian company got the fourth this summer the trains have not received the needed licenses yet Westbahn CEO Thomas Posch said in a March video interview that they ran out of time but highlighted he was sure the DDEMUs would be in service he added that it would not happen this year shared the first video of the new superfast Chinese train in Hungary he could not find out why the train was in Dunakeszi A Greenpeace report shows that fetotoxic substances in the wastewater near the Samsung battery plant in Göd near Budapest also threaten nearby towns including Dunakeszi the environment and climate affairs shadow minister of opposition Democratic Coalition said on Sunday Olivio Kocsis-Cake told an online press conference that toxic water had spilled onto arable land near the plant the Samsung plant in Göd should have stopped operations a long time ago but “the Orbán government continues to protect the factory with an obvious lie” The DK politician said that the head of the Prime Minister’s Office attributed at a recent government briefing the factory’s continued operations to postal delivery problems DK demands that the government should immediately put a halt to the construction of new battery plants and calls for an investigation by independent experts of the operation of existing plants “We must not allow Far Eastern-owned battery plants that neglect Hungarian laws and regulations to contaminate the water reserves for residents and make their properties lose in value,” he added László Szilágyi the opposition’s mayoral candidate of Göd said that early this year it was revealed that 88 tonnes of fetotoxic substance had been leaked in the air in two years which “could cause serious problems in the area” The factory has since received a permit to expand by 43,000 square metres The Dunakeszi Járműjavító Ltd has new owners and their goal is to modernise the company and make it the market leader in the Central-European railway industry Lipa Kirill, the CEO of the Transmashholding Group, which has 50 pc of the Ltd’s shares, told the Hungarian News Agency that they need an investment worth tens of millions of EUR, VG reported He added that it depends on the contracts what they will produce and how many people they can employ provided that there is a demand on the market the number of their employees might rise steeply The other owner of the Dunakeszi Járműjavító Ltd is the Magyar Vagon Ltd (MA-VAG) led by Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky who told MTI that the development of the Ltd because it might attract further subcontractors to come to the country Lipa Kirill’s Russian group is currently employing more than 100 thousand people and Mr Kirill said that they would like to enable their Dunakeszi plant to produce not only railway wagons but also electric and diesel locomotives or subway cars they need tens of millions of EUR to improve the quality of their products and to widen their portfolio He pointed out that the TMH Hungary Ltd would produce 1,300 railway wagons for the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) and the deal is worth more than 1 billion EUR He also added that the Dunakeszi plant would make 680 of them The CEO said that there were a lot of speculations about the TMH saying that they bought the Dunakeszi Járműjavító Ltd only to fulfil their contract with the ENR they would like to become market leaders in Hungary and expand in the European market Mr Szalay-Bobrovniczky said that the railway industry has significant roots in Hungary and their products still circulate in Argentina the professional staff in Hungary is very good in the field it is a global trend that more and more people turn to railways because it is fast and offers a safe alternative for transportation Mr Szalay-Bobrovniczky stated that the Transmashholding Group is the fourth biggest company in the sector excellent opportunity for both technological and knowledge transfer and their staff will have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge He also said that the management of the company is now measuring the capacities to start producing the wagons for Egypt He added that the project already needs significant investments and creates hundreds of new jobs The opposition Jobbik-Conservatives on Wednesday held a press conference in front of a Samsung factory in Göd under the title “the Orbán government has decided: half a million migrant workers instead of Hungarian employees” Zoltán Péter Varga the party’s representative in the Pest County general assembly and a Dunakeszi local council representative told a the press conference that the plant had caused great concerns to locals because potential pollution from the plant raised fears “The battery plant is taking significant security measures but instead of focusing on operations they focus on ensuring that no information is leaked from the plant,” he added He also said that it was a reasonable expectation by locals that taxes paid by the plant should be fully granted to them Dániel Z Kárpát told the presser that the plant employing thousands of people had only 200 workers from Göd The party would like to ensure that initially those jobs get subsidies from Hungarian taxpayers’ money that are filled by Hungarians a party lawmaker and the head of parliament’s national security committee said that the security of Hungary and Hungarians was of primary importance and the arrival of guest workers in masses from Asia He added that the relevant ministers should reveal whether Hungarian secret services were able to screen new arrivals in any form What’s the point of spending all the resources including international political good will if you allow the country to be swamped by unnecessary immigrants anyway?!?! high-skill jobs requiring specialized knowledge The largest order ever received by Hungary’s transport industry raises hopes of wide-ranging cooperation and tapping opportunities in African markets said after talks with Egyptian transport minister Kamel al-Wazir in Budapest on Thursday Railway carriages for the Egptian market are already being manufactured in Dunakeszi Originally a Russian-Egyptian-Hungarian cooperation the project is now fully in the hands of Hungary’s Ganz-Mávag due to recent geopolitical changes So far Hungary has delivered 255 carriages and we will be ready by the deadline,” he said The project has contributed to the significant expansion of exports a key element of Hungary’s economic performance “Today we started talks on expanding this cooperation and on the manufacturing of joint Hungarian-Egyptian rolling stock,” Szijjártó said The ministers have also agreed to train Egyptian railway engineers and technicians in Hungary using a grant system already in place The first four carriages arrived in Alexandria in 2021: Here are the four ENR carriages still in Hungary: Hungary is raising the number of grants offered to Egyptian university students from 115 to 200 from 2024 More than 100,000 Hungarian tourists visited Egypt last year and that number is expected to grow in 2023 There are currently 12 weekly flights between the countries Hungarian discount airline WizzAir has obtained permission to fly from Ghiza Egypt is also strategically important to Europe as it plays an important role “in reining in the waves of migration to the continent as one of the main fortresses of the defence lines of north Africa.” “Thanks to Egypt’s responsible policies migration waves from the south have been held in check recently,” he said Cairo is also an important partner in the fight against terrorism “Without a stable political system in Egypt the risk of terrorism in the region would be even greater.” “Thanks to investments such as the construction of Coca-Cola HBC Hungary Ltd’s new warehouse in Dunaharaszti Hungarian exports could reach 100 billion euros this year” Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday at a press conference held to mark the new facility’s official inauguration “The two billion forint (EUR 6.5 million) project makes Coca-Cola HBC Hungary Ltd’s new warehouse the largest food industry warehouse in Hungary” adding that “the strength of every national economy is indicated by the level at which global brands such as Coca-Cola are present in the country” Hungary achieved a total export value of 92.990 billion euros in 2016 followed by 50.990 billion euros in the first two quarters of this year luckily several global brands such as Audi Lego and Coca-Cola are present in the Hungarian economy and it is thanks to their investments that the Hungarian economy will be capable of achieving 100 billion euros in exports Coca-Cola HBC exports the goods it produces in Hungary to 25 European countries “The investments realised by Coca-Cola are also proof of the fact that Hungary offers the region’s most attractive investment environment We can also not ignore the fact that the company acquires two thirds of its raw materials and would like to increase this ratio even further” Coca-Cola HBC Hungary has constructed a 6500 square metre warehouse in the centre of Dunaharaszti The 12 metre tall building is big enough to fit 8.4 million litres of products on a total of 12 thousand pallets which is larger than five football pitches Managing Director of Coca-Cola HBC Hungary Minas Agelidis and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó officially inaugurated the warehouse which was then viewed by guests and representatives of the press Coca-Cola HBC Hungary was the first company to conclude a strategic partnership agreement with the Government in 2012 the company has brought some 15 billion forints (EUR 49 million) of investment to Hungary while its annual turnover has increased from 87.5 billion forints to 106 billion forints and the taxes paid by the company have increased from 17.7 billion to 25 billion forints As we wrote before, Coca Cola started to sell pálinka After a successful cooperation of six years (Rézangyal Kft) and Coca Cola Hungary will further improve their cooperation with a new trade agreement Márton Kovács/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade/MTI People are fleeing from the heat to the water If you don’t want to pay for a beach ticket or travel down to the Hungarian sea We’ll show you where the best free beaches are around Budapest Dunakeszi you can enjoy the pleasures of summer in Dunakeszi The advantage is that there is plenty of shade There is a playground for families with children but care must be taken as the water deepens quickly Changing rooms and refreshments are provided for your comfort Dunabogdány Dunabogdány is a good choice for active holidaymakers. There is also a football pitch and a volleyball court. A playground is also available here. The beach is sandy and the water is gradually deepening, according to strand.hu The fast-diving Nagymaros open-air beach has a 200-metre-long shoreline there is shade on barely a fifth of the site Ráckeve The Little Danube Wild Duck Beach in Ráckeve is only 30 metres long The gradually deepening water is of excellent clarity Facilities include a volleyball court and playground Arrive early as the small beach fills up quickly Szigetcsép A 200-metre stretch of beach awaits you in Szigetcsép Grass and sand on the beach and sand in the water The shaded areas are 20-40 percent and the water is rapidly deepening but there are also volleyball and football pitches Monday to Friday from 10 AM to 10 PM and weekends from 9 AM to 10 PM Verőce there is a volleyball court and two snack bars There is also a projector during sporting events Göd beach The best thing is that canoes can be rented A bit of mud with some sand thrown over it is not a beach A young man crashed with his glider near Sóskút he survived the accident and was hospitalised a fatal car accident happened on Budapest’s Árpád Bridge According to Szeretlek Magyarország authorities do not know what was behind the crash An eye-witness told the press that his head was bleeding and had several injuries on his hand An ambulance took the young man to hospital The accident happened in an unpopulated area of the village’s industrial park that the 26-year-old pilot of the glider suffered light injuries Police are examining the circumstances of the accident Several similar accidents happened in the last few weeks a 17-year-old crashed at the Airport of Dunakeszi A week later, two gliders collided near Nagycserkesz, but both pilots could escape with parachutes, hvg.hu wrote the other in his 50s) were taken to hospital Wednesday night saw a fatal car accident on the Árpád Bridge in Budapest. Three people died, and many were injured after a man crashed into a car with his stolen taxi and then hit another car after driving against traffic, Telex wrote Portfolio.hu wrote that the stolen taxi hit a Suzuki Ignis a Skoda bumped into the latter from the back the driver of the stolen taxi and a man and a woman sitting in the Suzuki Ignis died in the horrible accident Player.hu made a list of the most dangerous places in Budapest It includes abandoned industrial areas with whores pimps and criminals – the dark side of the capital In the spring of 2012 Counter Terrorism Center (TEK) carried out the largest action of its history: they searched several apartments with the help of 120 commandos There is a homeless shelter and a mobile police station in the street there are a couple of other similar places in the capital Klinikak (there is a metro station as well) it functions as an unofficial tolerance zone between Soroksári and Gubacsi Road During peak hours the place is full of prostitutes you can easily recognize them from their clothes (or the lack of clothes) the potential customers roll in front of them at a slow pace it is not the only place in Budapest with these characteristics: other destinations are Dunakeszi Road and Gyógyszergyári Road in Kőbánya The official name is: the Main Train Workshop of Istvantelek train cemetery The industrial area is located 2 train stops away from Nyugati railway station and the former trains – now out of order – inhabit it for now If there is someone who still want’s to visit this unpleasant sight one should contact BudapestScenes which organizes alternative trips in the Hungarian capital and they are frequently filled with homeless it is advisable to leave it as soon as possible It was the public slaughterhouse some time ago Now only music bands and the R33 club operate here It is quite depressing to walk down on the death row where animals were herded to the first floor It is no wonder that people begin drinking in the R33 club The road leading through Tetenyi plateau is completely different from other places where prostitutes normally work there are bad roads and burning oil barrels which give light to all the “employees” waiting there This 250-hectare industrial area is the most important remnant of socialism 25 thousand people worked here in the previous system Before World War II it was called Weiss Manfred Steel and Metal Works It is no wonder that is the ideal place for photoshoots and filming You can visit the place with the guidance of BudapestScenes abandoned building was the home of the National Psychiatric and Neurological Institute (OPNI) in Lipotmezo People of Budapest often called it the “yellow house” because of the color of its walls the institute was closed and several people allegedly were thrown into the street this is the second-biggest public building of Hungary (the Parliament is the first) except by musicians and crews shooting videos there This is another notorious place of Budapest Like the previously-mentioned Szabadkai Road You can find the road next to the waste incinerator Photo: Texaner/Wikimedia Commons Very interesting article; I wander where are the danger and mystery spots are in the more privileged 2nd and 12th Buda districts Szel Kalman/ former Moszkva Ter comes to mind there is an interactive map to check the dangerous zones Just do not go there at night if you value your life This might sound like I’m overreacting but just stay as far away from that wretched fucking place as possible Human traffickers with eyes pierced for vulnerable party-leavers (Liget Club is there) prostitutes and their pimps basically every archetype who you do not want to meet When I came face to face with the situation that was there I actually felt sick to my stomach Definietly one of the worst places in BP security-wise I want to mention Deak Square corner at Kiraly utca the city has become ridden with many more drunks Not a day goes by that I am not acousted at the tram stops for money Please get more patrols out there to clean up the city