Hungary

Hungary Scraps Sunday Shopping Ban As Orban Pre-Empts Referendum

Hungarian lawmakers have scrapped an unpopular Sunday shopping ban implemented by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s administration last year, as the gove...

Hungary’s Orban To Scrap Sunday Shopping Ban To Avoid Referendum

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s cabinet will ask lawmakers to rescind a law that barred all but a few shops from staying open on Sundays, Orb...

Tesco Hungary Facing Online-Division Strike Over Pay Increases

Tesco’s online division in Hungary is threatening to go on strike in March if all of its workers don’t get pay rises, local newspaper Magyar Id...

Spar Celebrates 45 Outlets At OMV Petrol Stations In Hungary

As of January 2016, Spar has opened 45 of its Express shops at OMV filling stations across Hungary, the Dutch retailer said in a press release. Exempt f...

Drought Shrivels Hungarian Apple Harvest

The biggest drought in over a decade in Hungary is expected to take a heavy toll on the apple harvest and particularly small and medium sized farmers with...

Sunday Shopping Ban in Hungary Cost Over 2,000 jobs

Hungary’s ban on Sunday shopping ban cost more than 2,000 people their jobs in the commercial sector by the end of April 2015, blokkk.com has reporte...

Tesco Amends Business Hours in Hungary

Citing customer requests, Tesco Hungary decided to open 33 of its supermarkets as early as 5am, the British retailer told Hungarian news portal origo.hu....