More money will be available in next year's budget for healthcare, education, public safety and economic development, the Government Spokesman András Giró-Szász stated on Thursday.
On Thursday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán inaugurated a new plant of Danish company Grundfos in Székesfehérvár. The new plant has been built with an investment of 12 billion forints (EUR 40m) and will create 350 new jobs.
Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog addressed the opening ceremony of the 10th Autism-Europe International Congress in Budapest on Wednesday, where he spoke about the state’s task to create appropriate conditions for treating autism and enabling people with autism to live a full life in society.
Some 170 ambassadors and diplomats accredited in Hungary participated in the traditional grape harvest in the northeast Hungarian village of Demjén on Thursday. Minister of Rural Development Sándor Fazekas and State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Iván Bába welcomed guests at the Egri Korona wine cellars.
In light of data by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), the positive trend of increasing real wages – in place since the beginning of the year – is continuing. In January-July 2013, average gross and net wages were up year-on-year by 3.2 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively, within the national economy.
Hungary can only remain a talented nation if it pays attention to its talents, Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics stated at the opening of the TALENTn Conference in Budapest.
As Minister of State Zoltán Cséfalvay said at the conference entitled Competitive Enterprise=Competitive Economy organized by business daily Világgazdaság in Budapest, a large proportion of EU funding will be channelled to small and medium-sized enterprises in the upcoming EU fiscal period.
The substantial victory achieved at the parliamentary elections in Germany this Sunday by the conservative CDU-CSU party alliance, which fell short of an absolute majority by only a few mandates, provides the realistic chance of a grand coalition with the Social-Democrats (SPD) or of a coalition with the Green Party, MFA Deputy State Secretary for EU bilateral relations Gergely Prőhle said on September 24.
On Thursday Hungary's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held talks with Octavian Calmic, Moldova's deputy economy minister.
Minister for Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics said at a press briefing today that Ireland should be required to execute the ruling of the Hungarian court in the Tobin case, adding that the letter of EU Commissioner Viviane Reding clearly confirms that Hungary is right on this issue.