According to the autumn forecast of the European Commission, Hungary’s major economic indices are signalling improvement for the coming years. The differences between the opinion of the Government and that of Brussels on growth and the government budget deficit are narrowing; the forecast of the Commission has adopted a more positive stance compared to the spring prognosis.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Péter Szijjártó, who is also Government Commissioner for Chinese–Hungarian trade relations, inaugurated the Hungarian consulate general in Hong Kong on Thursday.
On 13-14 November, MFA Political Director Szabolcs Takács paid an official visit to Madrid to discuss European issues, particularly the EU neighbourhood policy.
The presentation event of the volume in Central Europe, organised by the Ministry of National Development, is to be held in Budapest on 5 December, 2013. The predictions of the International Energy Agency (IEA) for the global energy industry are to be outlined by chief economist of the organisation Fatih Birol.
According to preliminary data by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), in the third quarter of 2013 – well above prior analyst estimates – Hungary’s economy expanded by 1.7 percent year-on-year. In light of data adjusted for seasonal and calendar effects, annual growth totalled 1.6 percent. In light of statistics of diverse fields, economic growth has been based on an increasingly sound structure.
Minister of State for Infrastructure Pál Völner, Member of Parliament of the region Katalin Csöbör and Head of Communications of the National Infrastructure Development Co. Ltd. Dániel Loppert laid the foundation stone of the Miskolc Northern Ring on 13 November 2013. The 2x1 lane stretch of 5.8 km to be funded from the New Széchenyi Plan is to be ready for use by traffic in late spring 2015.
Singapore regards the economic and political changes that have taken place in Hungary as "positive and forward-looking", the country's head of state, Tony Tan Keng Yam said during talks with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest on Wednesday.
Hungary is applying all possible means to address youth unemployment, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a European summit of presidents, prime ministers, labour ministers and heads of European institutions in Paris on Tuesday.
Extremists who ride on tensions present in Hungarian society should be rejected, Zoltan Kovacs, the state secretary in charge of social cohesion, told a conference on Wednesday.
It is a long path that leads to the ultimate success of the inclusion strategy; however, we may now see the signs of the positive changes that it has induced, the Minister of State for Social Inclusion at the Ministry of Human Resources said on Saturday in Komló.