Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will pay his first official visit after his reelection to Warsaw on May 5.
The Visegrad Group (V4) is more important today than when its member states joined the European Union in 2004, Foreign Minister János Martonyi said on Monday, addressing a conference marking the tenth anniversary of the EU accession of ten member states.
“The Holocaust, an unheard example of industrially executed terror, was the tragedy of mankind, Hungarians and Jews as well”, said Deputy PM Tibor Navracsics, Minister of Public Administration and Justice in Budapest during the commemoration of the Holocaust organized at the House of Terror Museum last Sunday.
Minister of State for European Affairs Enikő Győri represented Hungary in Vienna at the panel discussion “Returning to Europe: 10 years of EU integration”, along with Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia and Igor Senčar, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia.
A development project worth HUF 2.6 billion (EUR 8.7 million) has begun at the Hungarian subsidiary of German manufacturing company Rosenberger in Jászárokszállás, Hungary.
The launch of a twin-family movement in Transcarpathia was announced this Friday in Budapest. According to Bence Rétvári, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs of the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, the civil initiative is very important as it provides a way for Hungarian families living across borders to help each other.
According to Tibor Navracsics, the Government should support any initiative serving accessibility and which pulls people closer to living a full life in all areas. The Deputy Prime Minister spoke on this matter at this Friday, when he took part in the presentation of a sign language interpreting video service developed by Vodafone for the hearing impaired in one of the shops of the company in Budapest.
The upcoming renovation of the railway track between Budapest and Belgrade, which can currently only compete with bicycles, is equally important for both passenger and freight traffic, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó underlined on Pannon TV’s Közügyek ('Public Affairs") programme in Szabadka (Subotica) on Wednesday.
Deputy State Secretary Gergely Prőhle received Douglas Davidson, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues from the US Department of State, on April 24, 2014. Mr Prőhle informed his guest about the current Holocaust Memorial Year in Hungary.
In February, the number of tourism nights at hotels was up significantly: demand by domestic and foreign guests increased by 12 percent and 9.2 percent, respectively, in comparison to the corresponding period of the previous year. In addition to domestic consumption growth, the positive figures have been the result of favourable weather conditions and the increasing popularity of SZÉP Card.