The Ministry of National Development has awarded a subsidy of HUF 3bn for the financing of the applications of the Green Investment Scheme Panel Programme II.
For the attainment of green economy goals, subsidised by some HUF 150 billion in the past three years, the Development Ministry urges keeping competitiveness by complex and fast development.
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did not simply unveil the brutality of the communist terror, but became the chronicler of millions of victims, including hundreds of thousands of Hungarians, who were not given the opportunity to tell their story", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the opening of the exhibition entitled „A Russian Patriot – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)" in Budapest’s House of Terror Museum.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held negotiations in Moscow on the two most important fields of Hungarian-Russian cooperation: energy and agriculture.
Photos of 6th Session of the Hungarian-Russian Working Group on Tourism.
Tourism experts want to turn focus on the fact that one of the most important instruments and resources of tourism is water, Deputy CEO of Hungarian Tourism Ltd Gergely Horváth said at the press conference organized to commemorate the event. Gergely Horváth stressed that this is the third year that the World Tourism Day is celebrated in Hungary and this year’s motto also aims to raise awareness in environmental issues as the development of tourism has been an increasing burden on the environment.
The Ministry for National Economy drafted next year’s budget with a deficit of 2.9 percent and an inflation rate of 2.4 percent, Minister Mihály Varga stated on Sunday.
Hungary’s position is that the United Nations’ presence will be needed on the long term in Afghanistan, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Political Director Szabolcs Takács, at the meeting of the International Contact Group on Afghanistan and Pakistan in New York City. He stated that the reason for this is that among others the global organization continues to play an important confidence building role in the Afghan society.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its leader Chancellor Angela Merkel on their success in the German parliamentary elections on Sunday.
"The goods showcases at the five-day 76th National Agricultural and Food Industry Exhibition and Fair (OMÉK) clearly show that both the qualitative and quantitative range of Hungarian foods and agricultural products has developed significantly during the past two years", Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas declared on Sunday at the event in Kőbánya, eastern Budapest.