Ministers in the Cabinet of newly elected Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany were set to be sworn in today as part of his push to raise living standards and apply “truly Social Democratic” values to Hungary.

Moving to end a political crisis with its government coalition partner, Hungary’s Socialist Party has announced that Prime Minister Medgyessy is no longer head of the government and that it plans to nominate his replacement next week.

The driver of a double-decker bus cut in two by a passenger train in a Hungarian crash that killed 33 not only ignored warning lights but also passed a vehicle that had stopped at the crossing, investigators said today.