Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Vice Chairman & CEO of Hankook Tire Seung-Hwa Suh held negotiations in the Parliament.
Terrorism is one of our biggest security policy challenges, but preventing radicalism is as important as fighting terrorism, Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi said on 29 May 2013.
According to the flash report of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) published earlier this morning, the number of those in employment continued to increase compared to the corresponding period of the previous year.
On 28 May, ministers of Member States in charge of international development cooperation endorsed the EU’s position for the post-2015 development goals and agenda that will be the next generation of the Millennium Development Goals. Deputy State Secretary for Global Affairs Szabolcs Takács gave an update on Hungary’s contribution to the preparatory negotiations underway in New York, within the framework of the United Nations.
Zoltán Balog, Minister of Human Resources, Hungary, was presented with the third highest ranked German Order of Merit, the Grand Merit Cross with Star and Sash (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband) by Dr. Matei I. Hoffmann, Ambassador to Hungary of the Federal Republic of Germany.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held talks with the premier and economy minister of Macedonia on Monday.
In a short speech in Parliament, the Prime Minister noted that he has high hopes with regard to Hungary exiting the Excessive Deficit Procedure this quarter.
Individual investment tranches of the Széchenyi Capital Investment Fund may rise to EUR 750,000.
Last year, the amount of foreign direct investments totalled EUR 10.462bn in Hungary, which exceeds the previous year’s figure by EUR 6.7bn and which is the largest amount ever recorded. The amount of outbound FDI by Hungarian enterprises in 2012 was EUR 8.210bn, EUR 5bn above the level registered one year earlier.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared in the Protestant Great Church of Debrecen that the Hungarian Government is providing HUF ten billion for the reconstruction of the Protestant College and schools of Debrecen leading up to 2017, the 500th anniversary of the birth of Protestantism. The Government is convinced that this support is not simply the honouring of our past but also serves the Calvinism and Hungarian peoples of the future, he added.