Hungary and Austria will build new cross-border roads and reconstruct others as well as some border stations in the coming years, Péter Szijjárto, state secretary for foreign affairs and trade said after talks with Hans Niessl, Governor of Burgenland, in Budapest on 11 February.
"Last week’s agreement on the European Union’s budget for the next seven-year period is the single biggest success from Hungary’s point of view since the country joined the EU in 2004", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his pre-agenda speech at the opening of the spring session of the Parliament on 11 February. The Prime Minister stressed that Hungary had achieved almost everything it possibly could have from last week's agreement.
Dr. Patti Londoño Jaramillo, Vice-Minister of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, paid an official visit to Hungary on February 8-9, 2013.
It is the fifth month in a row that the leading economic indicator for Hungary showed improvement in December, but the pace of growth remains below the long-term trend, according to the indicator tracking Hungarian real economic cycles prepared by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó said that the Hungarian state will acquire 12 per cent ownership in Győr-Pér International Airport by purchasing the shares of the municipality of Pér.
The Ministry of Defence and the Museum and Institute of Military History most firmly reject the claims made by the Association of Hungarian Resistance and Antifascist Fighters and the Labor Party 2006, which suggest that the Ministry’s paying tribute to the World War II battles for Budapest are meant to encourage and strengthen the far right.
Hungarian Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas opened the Prodexpo 2013 food industry exhibition in Moscow, together with Russian agriculture officials. Mr. Fazekas is in Moscow at the invitation of Russian Minister for Agriculture Nikolai Fyodorov, where he will be holding bilateral talks.
Hungary will be second behind only Lithuania within the European Union with regard to per capita funding, and Hungary will receive increased net per capita funding despite a drop in the EU's total budget, according to the 2014-2020 financial framework agreed in Brussels on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated.
"Fruit and vegetable exports, which are currently at 800-850 thousand tons-a-year may be increased to 1.2 million tons/year over the coming years. This is one of the most important goals of the new agriculture strategy, which should be published during the first half of the year", Deputy Secretary of State for Agricultural Economy of the Ministry of Rural Development Zsolt Feldman told Hungarian news agency MTI at the Fruit Logistica exhibition in Berlin.
The Hungarian Government cannot comprehend why Moody's Investors Services does not take into account what Hungary has achieved lately.