The IMF and EU delegations, which have just concluded a visit to Budapest, are "positive" about Hungary's measures to restore the country's fiscal balance over the past two years, Mihály Varga, the country's chief negotiator said in a statement on Monday.
At its meeting today, the Government discussed the possibility of further decreasing public utility charges. The Government did not set out on the path of decreasing the overly high burdens on families to stop half or even a quarter of the way.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics began an official visit to Washington, D.C., on Monday.
Representatives from the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission met with leaders and experts from the Hungarian Government, the National Bank of Hungary, the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority, and with certain financial sector operators, within the framework of their annual economic policy consultation. The meetings included negotiations on economic forecasts for winter 2013.
Doubling Hungary’s GDP by 2025 is an important national goal, Minister of National Economy György Matolcsy said on Monday at the signing of a Strategic Partnership Agreement with Róbert Ésik, Managing Director of Nokia Siemens Networks Ltd.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó began an official, one and a half day visit to Qatar yesterday.
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén declared that the International Water Summit is to be held in October in Budapest, after participating in the summit of world leaders' from the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Santiago de Chile.
The Hungarian Government plans to pay out 1,500 billion forints (EUR 5bn) to EU-funded projects in 2013 to help stimulate the economy, János Lázár, Minister of State heading the Prime Minister's Office announced.
Zsolt Németh, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, informed Thomas O. Melia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the Department of State, about the consolidation of the new Hungarian constitutional order and the parliamentary elections in 2014, on January 24.
The Agriculture Workgroup of the Hungarian-Russian Economic Joint Committee is holding a two-day session at the Ministry of Rural Development.