Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics stated on Thursday that Hungary has given qualified acceptance to the 2012 Report on the Implementation of the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights, conditional on release of a political statement by the Government with regard to it; the statement objects to the findings concerning Hungary on four points.
Opportunities of Transnational Tourism Development in CEI countries - Conference – 6th of June 2013
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The National Agriculture and Food Industry Exhibition (OMÉK) will be held once again this year at the Hungexpo exhibition centre between September 18-22, Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas announced.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó will hold negotiations with Assistant Minister for European Affairs and Strategic and Security Organisations in Europe Hatem Seif El-Nasr, Minister of Investment Yehia Hamed Abdel-Samie Hamed and Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Hatem Abdel-Hamid Mahmoud Saleh.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held a joint press conference with Budapest Mayor István Tarlós this morning at the Római Bank of the Danube, one of the flood-hit districts of Budapest.
This weekend public dignitaries and high-ranking officials have been closely following up flood protection operations along the flooding Danube.
Hungary's Parliament will prepare to extend the state of emergency called at the beginning of last week due to the flood situation, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a news conference today in the city of Esztergom, north of Budapest.
972 people have been evacuated so far and more than 5.8 million sandbags had been placed at dykes by dawn, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told journalists later this morning near Győrújfalu, one of the critical settlements evacuated on Friday.
Today at 12 noon, the Hungarian Government handed over a letter to the European Commission, in which it responded to the three questions raised by the EU body concerning the possibility to impose extraordinary taxes, the transfer of court cases and the restrictions on political advertisements – Foreign Minister János Martonyi announced on 7th June 2013.
Hungary will remove from its Fundamental Law the state's option to levy a tax to compensate for any payment obligations incurred from rulings of the constitutional court, the European Court or other international courts against it, Foreign Minister János Martonyi said on Friday. The Minsiter stated that Hungary will also retract the provision allowing cases to be transferred to another court.