More Than 12,300 Suspicious Financial Transactions Reported in 2019
Financial service providers reported 12,342 suspicious transactions to the authorities last year, daily Magyar Nemzet said.
Economy
Hungary Industrial Output Drops By 7.8 % in June
Output of Hungary’s industrial sector fell by an annual 7.8% in June, data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) in a second reading show.
Food, Tobacco Prices Litf Hungary Consumer Price Index By 3.8% in July
Higher food and tobacco prices lifted Hungary’s consumer price index by 3.8% year-on-year in July from 2.9% in the previous month, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said.
PM: Hungary to receive EUR 40.7 BN in EU funding
Hungary’s funding from the multiannual budget and the recovery package will run to 40.7 billion euros, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a letter briefing parliament on the results of the EU summit held in late July.
Three die, registered infections up by 35
Three Covid-19 patients have died, while the number of registered infections in Hungary has increased by 35 to 4,731 over the past 24 hours, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Monday morning.
Value of Public Procurement Procedures Falls One-Fifth
The value of public procurement procedures fell about one-fifth, while the number dropped one-quarter in the first half from the same period a year earlier, showing the economic impact of the pandemic, the Public Procurement Authority told MTI. The 3,746 public procurement procedures had a value of about 1,346 billion forints (EUR 3.9bn).
Special Epidemic Action Unit to Isolate Clusters
A special epidemic action unit investigating coronavirus clusters will be isolating any groups that may be infected in order to prevent the virus from spreading further, a spokesman for the operative board coordinating Hungary’s response to the novel coronavirus epidemic said.
Trade volume continues to recover in June
The fall in Hungary’s exports and imports continued to slow in June, recovering from a lockdown plunge in April, preliminary data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) show.
Budget deficit reaches HUF 2,165 BN at end-July
Hungary’s budget deficit, excluding local councils, reached 2,165 billion forints (EUR 6.3bn) at the end of July, widened by pandemic defence spending, economic stimulus and pre-financing for European Union-funded projects, the finance ministry said in a preliminary release of data.
More Hungarians vacation locally
Domestic travellers spent 672,000 guest nights at commercial accommodations in Hungary in June, rising closer to levels a year earlier, data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) show.