Hungarian public media opens bureau in Brussels

Hungary’s Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund MTVA has opened a bureau in central Brussels to provide reporting about news and events involving Hungary, European political developments, European Union affairs and topics of public interest, MTVA’s press office said on Tuesday.

The bureau has a staff of six correspondents for Hungarian news agency MTI, public television news channel M1, public news broadcaster Kossuth Radio and the news website hirado.hu, the office said in a statement.

It said that the bureau’s central location and its highly modern technology infrastructure meeting 21st century standards ensure “an excellent opportunity to facilitate the work of the correspondents and provide to the viewers and listeners of the public media a service at an even higher level”.

Opening the bureau, Dániel Papp, the chief executive of MTVA, said it was particularly important for the Hungarian public media operator which has a global network of correspondents to have an office in Brussels, “the capital of the European Union”.