Nearly 700 new jobs will be created with the help of the New Széchenyi Plan at LuK Savaria Ltd. in Szombathely. The factory in Szombathely celebrated its 15th anniversary and its expansion today with the participation of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Prime Minister Orbán’s speech that he gave on 23 October in front of the Parliament Building.
Deputy State Secretary for Hungarian Communities Abroad Zsuzsanna Répás found Hungarian cultural life to be lively on her tour of several South American countries, during which she made contact with Hungarian communities living there.
János Lázár, Minister of State heading the Prime Minister’s Office met the family of the young woman who had deceased in a tragic accident on the M5 motorway near Kecskemét, Central Hungary on Wednesday and expressed his deepest compassion to them.
On Thursday in Luxembourg at the meeting of EU Ministers of Interior so far there has been no consensus reached on when Romania and Bulgaria could join the Schengen zone.
Cultural programmes linked to Hungary have begun in Japan. State Secretary for Public Diplomacy Zoltán Kovács is attending the events, and on Saturday his itinerary includes opening the cultural festival in Tokyo in which young Hungarian performers from Transylvania will take the stage.
The exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts entitled Cézanne and the past – which can be visited from 26 October 2012 to 17 February 2013 – presents the life's work of the French painter together with its artistic predecessors. This is the first ever exhibition of the Post-Impressionist artist in Hungary.
Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog opened the Helsinki Book Fair, at which Hungary is the guest of honour.
The Hungarian Government continues to be committed to its policy aimed at getting the excessive deficit procedure against Hungary lifted and pursuing prudent economic management. The measures announced on 5 October the Government had considered sufficient, but acknowledging that the European Union adopted a different standpoint, new string of measures had been decided.
The reform of Hungarian public administration was presented in London at a prominent international forum: a conference of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).