Zsolt Németh, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, opened the exhibition entitled „Serbian Church Art in Hungary” at the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Brussels on Wednesday.
Masat 1, the small satellite developed by Hungarian researchers, which was orbited on 13 February last year, has been operating perfectly and has broken all records in its category, the audience was informed at a press conference organized to celebrate its 1st “birthday”.
The HDF Provincial Reconstruction Team (HUN PRT) recently distributed humanitarian aid packages for the last time in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan. The Hungarian troops will soon finish their development projects and their six-and-a-half-year mission abroad.
Swedish Volvo Bus Corporation and Hungary's Rába Vehicles Holding signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Budapest on Tuesday. The agreement was concluded in Parliament by Volvo’s European Vice-President and Head of Business Development Stefan Guttman and Rába's President and Chief Executive István Pintér.
Hungary wants to play a larger role in the European Union’s assistance programmes in Africa, especially in the Sub-Saharan region, Deputy State Secretary for Global Affairs Szabolcs Takács told MTI February 13, 2013.
EU ministers responsible for international development cooperation held talks at an informal meeting in Dublin on 11-12 February regarding the global development and sustainability agenda following 2015, when the Millennium Development Goals’ deadline expires.
According to Deputy Secretary of State for International Communications Ferenc Kumin, the image of Hungary in the international press has improved recently and attention is instead centred around how Hungary has managed to achieve such positive changes.
In 2012, overall local tax revenue in the Western-Hungarian city of Tatabánya exceeded 5.2 billion forints, which is an 18% rise compared to 2011 and an increase on pre-crisis figures, Mayor Csaba Schmidt informed participants at a reception for "large taxpayers".
The adoption by Parliament on Monday of the new Civil Code is seen by the Minister of State for Justice to be of historic significance.
Hungary issued international bonds worth USD 3.25 billion on Tuesday, which were nearly four times oversubscribed as they have received bids worth USD 12 billion. Hungary’s currency has strengthened as a result of the issuance.