Wednesday, March 18, 2020
The European Commission has issued a release on a coordinated response to counter the economic impact of the coronavirus, economic news site Portfolio reports. According to the plan, the EU, by not applying the regular allocation system, will give money...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
While globalisation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have benefited the world greatly, it has a number of far-reaching consequences that include exacerbating inequalities across societies, with inequality rising even in some countries where economic...
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Friday, November 29, 2019
BLOG: Employers and employees make social security contributions at different rates across eastern Europe, presenting coordination challenges for multinationals. A previous article discussed social security contributions in the Americas. This...
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Monday, November 11, 2019
BLOG: A narrative approach study identified three main labour reforms that increased and then decreased employment protection in Hungary, writes Nauro Campos. This post looks at these important reforms in an understudied yet key country and...
Saturday, March 16, 2019
The Hungarian government has put in place supportive, stable, targeted and flexible social and family policies to protect women's rights, said a Hungarian UN envoy here on Friday. Speaking at the on-going 63 Session of the Commission on the Status of...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Social transfers in Hungary reduced the number of people at risk of poverty by 46% last year, showing one of the biggest impacts in the European Union, according to data from the EUʼs statistics office Eurostat, cited by Hungarian news agency MTI. ...
Monday, December 4, 2017
More than 200 experts and professionals in the fields of nutrition, health, education, social protection and agriculture are convening in Budapest today. They have one thing in common: the conviction that local, national, regional and global food systems...
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Hungary’s so-called Family Home Creation Discount (CSOK) housing subsidy scheme introduced in July 2015 is proving to be very popular. Napi.hu reports that to date some 25,000 individuals applied for grants and loans in the total amount of HUF 76...