Heroe Square Sunday News Today

Employers of Hungary’s catering industry have explained the devastation the coronavirus pandemic has caused on their businesses. The Hungarian Gastronomic Association has offered solutions. The protests at Heroes’ Square calling for the reopening of catering businesses have been effective in bringing attention to the issue, but now people are looking for legal solutions. The main issue catering businesses have is that they cannot function well enough to stay in business due to coronavirus r...

Coronavirus: Jobbik Calls for 100 % Rent Relief for Businesses The opposition Jobbik party has called on the government to cover 100 percent of the rent payments of businesses reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. “The government is squandering one opportunity after the other” to help small and medium-sized companies hurt by the crisis, Jobbik deputy leader Dániel Z Kárpát told an online press conference on Wednesday. Z Kárpát said his party was proposing for the establ...

Anti-Restriction Demonstrations Fail to Cause Mass Reopening in Hungary The mass reopening of stores movement is having little success in achieving its goal of mobilizing restaurants, cafés, and pubs around Hungary to reopen despite restrictions. While a few hundred people have been actively protesting coronavirus restrictions, catering businesses seem to remain silent. Whether it was due to the harshened restrictions the government put in place or the sudden payment of wage subsidies, restaur...

Hundreds of people gathered at Budapest’s Heroes’ Square on Sunday to protest coronavirus restrictions affecting small businesses. Police quickly responded. Protesters gathered at Heroes’ Square Sunday at noon to call for the easing of coronavirus restrictions, which have been extended until March. The current restrictions severely hamper the ability of catering businesses to survive. Since the restrictions do not allow for people to gather in large groups anywhere, participants were simp...