Albania and Hungary have a good chance of becoming winners in the coming decades, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said referring to both countries’ economies on Wednesday after talks with Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha in Tirana.
The Ministry for National Development signed an agreement with the Leipzig-based European Energy Exchange (EEX) on 28 November, based on which the auction of Hungary’s EUA units in the second trading period of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) may now be launched.
In the focal point of taxation policy: securing financial balance, acknowledging aspiring entrepreneurs and reducing the proportion of income taxes while increasing the role of consumption and turnover taxes.
On 27 November 2012 Minister of State at the Ministry for National Economy Gyula Pleschinger signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Peter Harrold, the World Bank’s Country Director for Central Europe and the Baltic Countries.
Today Minister for National Economy György Matolcsy leads negotiations on current economic policy issues and German-Hungarian economic relationships in Berlin.
The Hungarian Parliament has once again passed the Waste Management Act. This was required, because President of the Republic János Áder sent the draft of the new Act back to Parliament for reconsideration at the end of October.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán handed the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary to Vice President of Banco Espírito Santo, Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva Salgado on Tuesday in the Parliament Building. The award was granted for his work to develop Hungarian-Portuguese economic and cultural relations and to improve Hungary’s international image.
Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér held talks with his Georgian counterpart Irakli Garibashvili.
Minister of Human Resources Balog and Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Torgeir Larsen at a press conference prior to the start of a two-day Council of Europe conference to tackle hate speech.
The Office of the Government Spokesman, the Fidesz party faction and various governmental politicians have condemned to the greatest possible degree the statement made in Parliament by Jobbik MP Márton Gyöngyösi. According to the Office of the Government Spokesman, the Government takes the strictest possible action against every form of racism and anti-Semitic behaviour and does everything in order to ensure that malicious voices incompatible with European norms are driven back, adding that every citizen will be protected from such insults.