The Government has been committed to correcting mistaken decisions of the past, and is therefore continuing with its policy of keeping fiscal deficit under 3 percent and reducing general government debt.
There are no plans to sell Mol shares owned by the state; they comprise an extra security reserve for the financing of the state budget – the Ministry for National Economy stated on Thursday.
At the Hungarian-German Forum in Berlin on November 8, Minister of State in charge of European Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Enikő Győri declared that EU member states should not let „new walls rise within the European Union”.
Deputy State Secretary for International Communications Ferenc Kumin paid a visit to London, where he held a lecture at an event organized by the Policy Research and Analysis Centre Federal Trust.
Foreign Minister János Martonyi conducted bilateral talks with Surapong Tovichakchaikul, the Foreign Minister of Thailand on the sidelines of the 9th Summit of the ASEM-Asia-Europe Meeting.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh decorated Ambassador of Montenegro, Vanja Brajlo.
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén and Archbishop Mark (Golovkov) of the Russian Orthodox Church signed a cooperation agreement that defines the responsibilities of the government and the church.
Cultural diplomacy should make full use of the interest currently being shown in Hungary around the world, Ministry of Human Resources Zoltán Balog, told Hungarian cultural diplomats on Thursday.
A trend reversal has been under way in 2012 as general government debt has been declining and state budget deficit could be reduced to below 3 percent of GDP, said Minister of State Zoltán Cséfalvay from the Ministry for National Economy on Thursday, at a conference in Budapest.
„The Hungarian government regards it as its moral and political obligation to face past violations of rights connected to the dictatorships of the twentieth century,” Parliamentary State Secretary Zsolt Németh declared in his opening remarks at the Fifth Budapest Human Rights Forum on November 8.