Foreign Minister János Martonyi congratulated Titus Corlatean on his reappointment as Foreign Minister in Romania's new government.
Hungary is a strong nation, which "stands the storms of a crisis" more successfully than several other nations "of more fortunate history and stronger economic fundamentals", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview published in national daily Magyar Nemzet on December 24.
The Hungarian government has moved forward the goals of education policy, cross-border projects, human rights issues and institutional development in its relations with Hungarian communities abroad in 2012, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh stated on December 26.
The reorganisation of the education system has been the greatest achievement of the government in the past two and a half years, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on public Kossuth Rádió on Sunday morning.
In the initial ten months of 2012 the sales volume of food, beverages and tobacco products stagnated year-on-year in an unfavourable global economic climate. In the tenth month of the year, however, this retail sub sector registered a decline of 1.2 percent in comparison to the corresponding period of the previous year. This figure is much more favourable than September data calculated by the same methodology (then contraction amounted to 3.7 percent).
According to the latest flash report of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), in October 2012 the volume of exports and imports was up by 5.2 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively, in comparison to the corresponding period of the previous year. In the tenth month of the year foreign trade posted a surplus of 182bn HUF (646 million EUR).
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday called student movements "a great thing", but stressed that perspective must be maintained.
Fitch Ratings Services has revised Hungary’s sovereign rating from “negative” to “stable”.
2014 will be the 70th anniversary of the darkest chapter in the Hungarian holocaust, the extermination of Hungarian Jews. For reasons of mourning and remembrance, and to increase awareness of the tragic events of 1944, on the recommendation of Hungarian Jewish organisations and based on the proposal of the Prime Minister, the Government is to establish the Hungarian Holocaust Memorial 2014 Committee.
With respect to energy security, Hungary will improve more in the next couple of years than it has during the past decades – said State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó by telephone to Hungarian news agency MTI, after negotiating with the Chief Executive Officer of Gazprom in Moscow.