Although the original deadline is the end of this year, it is possible that the agreement on the common European refugee system will be postponed to next year – said Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Home Affairs at the press conference following the EU Ministers of Interior meeting.
In compliance with EU regulations, the Ministry of Rural Development seeks by all means to enhance animal welfare in Hungary.
"600 tons of plastic waster are generated in Hungary each year, of which 6 0tons are PET bottles", the Ministry of Rural Development's State Secretary for Environmental Affairs stated in Mezőfalva, at the inauguration of a plastic recycling plant. Zoltán Illés stressed, that "the remaining 540 tons should also be recycled, and so the Government is calling on enterprises that deal in waste management to recycle, and on the public to selectively collect their household waste".
President of Békés County Council Zoltán Farkas and State Secretary for Rural Development Zsolt V. Németh signed a cooperation agreement on Thursday in Békéscsaba regarding the development of a model project for the promotion of fish consumption in Hungary, and the increasing of productivity and the quality of processing.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held talks with Philipp Missfelder, Foreign Policy Spokesperson for the German CDU party.
According to the final estimate of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, in the third quarter of 2012 gross domestic product, as formerly anticipated, declined in Hungary by 1.5 percent in comparison to the corresponding period of the previous year; compared to the previous quarter the contraction was 0.2 percent. Regarding the initial three quarters of the year, the economy posted negative growth of 1.3 percent in comparison to the same period of 2011. The entire European economy has been facing tough challenges and that is aptly reflected by international data which signal that the EU’s GDP declined by 0.4 percent.
Hungary will never be an outsider in the European Union and will one day participate in the Eurozone, Foreign Minister János Martonyi said in an interview with Austrian daily Die Presse published December 7, 2012.
Hungary's chance of reaching an agreement on a financial backstop from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union has diminished as positions have stiffened, Mihály Varga, Hungary’s chief negotiator said in an interview published in business daily Napi Gazdaság on Friday.
Minister Varga said that Hungary's official talks with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund on a loan agreement had stalled but coordination talks focusing on how to kick-start growth were still under way. IMF experts recognise the Government's efforts to reduce the deficit, he said.
Hate speech cannot be permitted; it is our moral obligation to stand by its targets, Foreign Minister János Martonyi told a conference in Budapest December 6, 2012.