President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Suma Chakrabarti met with Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga in Hungary.
Through its European section, the South Stream gas pipeline could create the missing connections between the countries and contribute to strengthening supply security in the whole Central European region. The Hungarian Government assigns high priority to the implementation of the investment since, beyond boosting energy markets, the project could also have a role, by raising the GDP produced and employment, in mitigating the effects of the economic crisis, Minister of National Development Zsuzsa Németh explained in her address opening the conference South Stream: The Evolution of a Pipeline in Budapest on 18 November 2013.
The Inter-sessional Implementation Meeting and the New and Evolving Technologies Technical Experts Meeting of the Australia Group (AG), as well as an AG Dialogue Meeting with the participation of 100 experts, takes place in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 18 to 22 November. For the first time in the history of the inter-sessional meetings, the AG will be especially devoted to dialogue with countries outside the group.
Calls for tender in fields of mining were issued by the Minister of National Development in four fields of hydrocarbon research (Southeast and West of the Szeged Basin and North and South of Battonya-Pusztaföldvár) and three fields of geothermal energy research (Ferencszállás, Kecskemét and Jászberény) in August 2013.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Sir Suma Chakrabarti, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), exchanged views on the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and with relation to the transfer of technology in Budapest on Monday.
MFA Deputy State Secretary responsible European bilateral relations Gergely Prőhle held talks with Europe Director of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Vijay Rangarajan in Budapest on 15 November.
Deputy State Secretary for Tourism Dr Viktória Horváth held a presentation at a professional conference on the key development priorities of Hungarian health tourism and the National Tourism Development Concept (2012-2024) which is currently under social consultation. The Government plans to increase by 2024 the share of the tourism sector within Hungary’s GDP to as much as 10 percent.
The development of the 4th National Environmental Protection programme, which is aimed at assuring the environmental requirements for sustainable development, is complete, the Ministry of Rural Development's Deputy State Secretary for Parliamentary, Social and International Relations Katalin Tóth announced on Friday in Budapest at the conference organised to discuss the new Programme.
The upcoming European Parliament elections were among the topics of discussion during talks between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and former Spanish Head of Government José María Aznar on Monday in Budapest.
Szabolcs Takács, Political Director of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, paid a visit to London to meet his British counterpart Simon Gass and several foreign policy advisors to Prime Minister David Cameron. Following his meetings, Szabolcs Takács stated that Hungary and Britain shared many mutual interests, and that this had already become clear during Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to Britain in early October.