Szabolcs Takács, Political Director at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, declared that 2013 has been „the year of breakthrough” in Hungarian-Turkish relations, and that the long-term goal was to advance bilateral cooperation to a strategic level.
The deficit target in the 2014 budget will be met thanks to reserves, Minister of National Economy Mihály Varga told lawmakers ahead of a debate of the budget bill.
In the eighth month of the year, wages increased by 4.8 percent in real terms, thus the positive trend in place since the beginning of the year is continuing. According to the report of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), in January-August 2013 gross and net average wages within the national economy were 3.4 percent and 4.8 percent higher, respectively, year-on-year. Parallel to benign inflation growth of 2.1 percent, wages gained 2.6 percent in real terms in the observed period.
A record number, a total of 200 thousand people will participate in the Government’s public employment programme during this year’s winter period (form November until the end of April), Minister of State for Employment Sándor Czomba of the Ministry for National Economy announced.
Deputy State Secretary for Global Affairs Péter Wintermantel paid a visit to Singapore on 22-23 October. The aim of the trip was to prepare for the visit of the President of Singapore to Hungary in November.
The total value of the New Széchenyi Plan package of developments targeted at the prevention of road accidents causing personal injury is over HUF 55 billion. The investments to be implemented on the expressway system in the first round, from a budget of over HUF 13.5bn, may be completed by the end of next year. The project launching event of the State Motorway Management Co. Ltd. was held at the Company’s customer service at Rest Area M3 Szilas on 22 October 2013.
Minister of National Development Zsuzsa Németh delivered an address at the topping out ceremony of Somogy County Kaposi Mór Teaching Hospital in Kaposvár on 22 October, 2013. Enabled by the additional grant of HUF 2.5 billion awarded by the Government, the comprehensive reconstruction of Somogy County Kaposi Mór Teaching Hospital can be implemented by June 2015, it was mentioned at the event.
The whole free world honours the Hungarians of 1956 who fought an open war against the communist system which had kept everyone in fear, and which was proven to be "irreparable", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the state ceremony to commemorate the October 23 national holiday at Heroes' Square, Budapest.
Commemorations were held in Budapest and other cities and towns today to mark the 57th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution and freedom fight of 1956.
State secretary for foreign affairs and external economic relations Péter Szijjártó met with a delegation from Vietnam’s finance and investment ministry in Budapest on Tuesday.