In the opinion of the Minister for National Economy, Hungarian technical intelligentsia will be a determining factor in the building of a strong and successful Hungary with steadily expanding economy.
The Water Strategy has been completed and may soon be submitted to the Government, the Ministry of Rural Development's Deputy State Secretary for Water announced at the OMÉK agriculture fair. The social debate on the Strategy, during the course of which over 1300 comments and suggestions were submitted, closed in July. The Ministry has processed the recommendations and incorporated a significant number of them into the Strategy.
Minister of State for Energy Affairs Pál Kovács and Deputy Minister for Education Pham Manh Hung signed a bilateral agreement on nuclear training, research, administrative and technical cooperation in the presence of President of the Republic of Hungary János Áder and President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Truong Tan Sang in Sándor Palace on 16 September 2013.
The Energy Working Group of the Russian-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation held its third meeting in Budapest on 16 September 2013, where the parties discussed energy cooperation and business opportunities between the two countries. The session was attended by officials from the relevant Hungarian and Russian ministries, and also members of the organisations active in energy market relations between the two countries.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held talks on the continuation of the Hungarian-Tunisian Economic Action Plan on Thursday in Budapest, the State Secretary's press chief said.
Defence Minister Csaba Hende will on Friday leave the Budapest hospital he was flown to by helicopter after a car accident on Thursday afternoon, a commander of the Hungarian Army's Health Centre told public TV on Friday morning.
The Ministry of National Economy has entered into ten-year public service agreements on railway passenger transport with MÁV-START Ltd. and GYSEV Ltd. At the signing ceremony, Minister of State for Infrastructure Pál Völner said that the agreements created a more predictable framework for both the state as contractor and service companies, making planning easier as well.
Hungary has become the stronghold of the European automotive industry thanks to the measures introduced over the last three years, including the restructuring of the tax system, the creation of a flexible Labour Code and the reform of vocational training, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Szolnok at the inauguration ceremony of the F. Segura Spanish car parts manufacturing factory.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban attended the inauguration ceremony of a new vegetable oil factory built by the Swiss Glencore group in Foktő.