Foreign Minister János Martonyi appointed Deputy State Secretary Gábor Baranyai as the Ministerial Commissioner in charge of preparing the UN conference on water management and sanitation to be held in Budapest this October.
According to currently available Eurostat data, retail turnover decreased in 13 EU countries in December, while growth was registered in nine of them.
The pre-deployment training for the soldiers of the Hungarian Defence Forces to be sent to Mail is already under way, and the Hungarian operational plan is ready for receiving the final approval of a public law entity, the government’s authorization, Lt.-Col. (Eng.) Viktor Csabianszki, a member of the Defence Staff Operations Directorate told Hungarian News Agency MTI on Thursday, February 21.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held his traditional state-of-the-nation speech on 22 February in Budapest, providing a comprehensive assessment of the past year’s achievements and paving the way for future steps of the country.
"The Government is sticking to its previously adopted deficit target of under three percent", announced Minister without portfolio Mihály Varga on Friday in reaction to the European Commission's winter forecast.
According to its Winter Forecast published earlier today, the European Commission expects that fiscal deficit will be higher than anticipated by the Hungarian Government. Contrary to Brussels’ expectations, however, Hungary is certain of achieving a fiscal deficit of well below 3 percent.
The NATO member countries will hold a major European exercise in 2015, Minister of Defence Csaba Hende told Hungarian News Agency MTI. He is participating in the two-day meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels which started on Thursday, February 21.
Developing defence capabilities and taking stock of the accomplishment of defence tasks which were agreed at the Chicago NATO Summit in last May are the main focus of the NATO defence ministerial meeting held in Brussels on February 21–22.
Parliamentary State Secretary Zsolt Nèmeth declared that the cooperation of Visegrád, Baltic and Nordic states could be efficient when it comes to EU enlargement, EU neighbourhood policy and relations with Russia. The Secretary of State of the MFA responsible for Parliamentary Affairs represented Hungary at a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Visegrád group (V4 - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia), the Baltic States and Scandinavian countries held on 20th February in Gdansk, Poland.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó declared in an interview given to Wirtschaftsblatt that no new sectoral taxes are planned.