“The Government aims to carry out the reconstruction of the national public road network in the medium term with the necessary funds” said Pál Völner, state secretary of infrastructure on 17 April 2013 in Bajna, at the opening event of the reconstruction of the connecting road between Tát, Tarján and Tatabánya.
In the framework of the NER300 programme, the European Commission supports innovative projects aimed at the environmentally safe capture and geological storage of carbon dioxide, the recovery of renewable energy and the development of intelligent networks. Only a limited number of tenders may be submitted per Member State in the framework of the Commission’s call for tenders, therefore the Ministry of National Development is launching a preliminary qualification tender.
In the framework of the supplementary agreement concluded on 11 April 2013 between the Ministry of National Development and the Leipzig based European Energy Exchange (EEX), the Hungarian State will sell all of its remaining European units of account (EUA) in April of this year, as approved by the European Commission.
The United States is a major player is global politics, yet the close American-European alliance remains important, especially with regard to security policy – said Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh at a conference on US-Hungarian relations.
On the first day of the forum, the foreign ministers of the Visegrad countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – adopted a joint declaration highlighting the growing importance of their V4 cooperation.
Minister of State Zsolt Németh welcomed the agreement between Serbia and Kosovo concluded during his visit in Romania.
In Washington, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga met with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to discuss cooperation options on technical issues. He also held talks with Switzerland’s Economy Minister Johann Scheideer-Ammann about the liberalization of the Swiss labour market with regard to Hungarian jobseekers, in addition to which he sought information about accounts held by Hungarians in Switzerland.
A 5-day professional conference on the protection of National Parks and the more effective prevention and management of fires on their territory began today in Balatonöszöd with the participation of eight countries and the expert and financial backing of the United States.
Hungarian, British, Austrian, Turkish and local forces are jointly exercising the use of EUFOR’s new force structure, which has been augmented with the Intermediate Reserves Forces, EUFOR Chief of Staff Brig.-Gen. József Szpisják told Hungarian News Agency MTI on Thursday, April 18.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an interview to Spanish daily El Mundo, in which he talked about the importance of Christian values in society, the ethnic and religious minorities as constructive elements of the state, and the necessity of more just treatment for Hungary on the part of the European Union.