Foreign Minister János Martonyi paid tribute to Jewish victims of WW2 in Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Centre on Monday, at the start of his two-day visit in Israel. He placed a wreath at the eternal flame and wrote a short entry in the memorial book in honour of 1.5 million children killed in the war. Mr Martonyi’s official programme included talks with counterpart Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hungary continues to support establishing an independent, viable and contiguous Palestinian state, Foreign Minister János Martonyi told his Palestinian counterpart, Riyad Al-Maliki, during talks on the Middle East peace process.
"30 percent more, a total of 70 billion euros in funding will be available for innovation during the 2014-2020 European Union financing period under the auspices of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Development", the Ministry of National Economy's Parliamentary State Secretary announced at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday.
According to the Ministry of National Economy's standpoint, the continuous improvement in GKI research institute’s economic confidence index supports the expectations that the growth that began this year will prove to be permanent.
Hungary is satisfied with the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014-2020 since the country is among the three members states who will benefit most from the next MFF, Minister of State in charge of EU Affairs Enikő Győri said at a press conference on Monday.
A regional tourism hub for cooperation between China and Central and Eastern Europe has been established in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced on Tuesday after a two-day CEE-China summit in Bucharest.
The primary goal of the annual conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and to the Kyoto Protocol held in Warsaw from 11 to 22 November 2013 was to discuss the policy concepts related to the new global climate agreement.
"Two-hundred thousand people are taking part in the winter public work programme launched at the beginning of November, of whom one-hundred thousand are participating in further education", the Ministry of National Economy's Minister of State for Employment Policy announced on Tuesday in Ozora, Central Hungary.
"Our job isn't to predict the future, but to create it. And the creation of the future begins with us coming together to determine what future we want, and then planning what steps must be taken to make it a reality", Minister of State for Rural Development Zsolt V. Németh said at the professional consultation entitled Rural Development in Focus, organised at the Ministry of Rural Development.
The planned international South Stream gas pipeline was the subject of discussions on Tuesday morning between the Hungarian, Slovenian and Bulgarian prime ministers, on the sidelines of the CEE-China summit in Bucharest.