Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received CEO of Eni Marco Alvera and CEO of Mol Zsolt Hernádi in his office today, following the signing of a regional business agreement between the two oil companies.
"The role of innovation realised within the agrarian sector will be increasingly valuable in future, and the European Union is providing funding for this purpose during the 2014-2020 period", the Ministry of Rural Development's Minister of State for Parliamentary, Social and International Relations Katalin Tóth emphasised at the European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP) conference held in Budapest.
Marking the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, as part of the official program series within the frames of the Holocaust Memorial Year declared by the Government of Hungary, Leon Botstein will conduct at the Liszt Academy on the 11th of May, 7:00 PM.
The next Hungarian government will remain deeply dedicated to preserving the historical Hungarian-Polish friendship, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday after meeting his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk.
The Spring Forecast of the European Commission includes economic projections which are similar to those in the macroeconomic outlook of the Convergence Programme. This confirms that the Hungarian Government’s forecast is reliable and trustworthy.
Hungary is ready to take steps towards launching and implementing a process of historic reconciliation aimed at countries with which it has so far been at odds, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh told a conference on Hungarian–Serbian relations held at the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Institute 5 May 2014.
It is very important that Hungarians cast their ballot at the upcoming European parliamentary elections in large numbers, Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi said on Sunday.
The real economic advantage of Hungary’s EU membership lies in the fact that domestic enterprises are part of a common market with 500 million people, Minister of State Zoltán Cséfalvay said in an interview for kormány.hu which he gave following a conference organized for the 10th anniversary of Hungary’s EU accession.
According to the latest Eurostat data, the largest fall regarding the unemployment rate among EU member states over the past one year was registered in Hungary, Ministerial Commissioner Piroska Szalai, responsible for improving the labour market prospects of women, told MTI. Over the past 12 months, within the bloc only 10 countries were capable of cutting unemployment, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged in three and edged higher in 15 of them.
Almost 30 percent of Hungarian troops on foreign missions, currently around 200 of them, are serving with EU-led operations, as shown by a summary of the Ministry of Defence, which says that since the EU accession, Hungary has been playing an active role in EU crisis management missions as well and the EU membership also helps the development of the Hungarian Defence Forces’ capabilities.