Political, religious, and local community leaders unanimously condemned the anti-Semitic assault against a rabbi in Budapest. Civil associations also raised their voice in support of Chief Rabbi József Scweitzer.
Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi sent a letter of solidarity to Chief Rabbi Emeritus József Schweitzer June 6, 2012. Dr. Schweitzer fell a victim to an anti-Semitic verbal abuse on the previous day.
Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi gave an interview to MTI Hungarian News Agency. The Minister highlighted that Hungary has made major progress in the implementation of its foreign policy goals amidst adverse external conditions and “deep and fundamental” changes in the country since Viktor Orban’s government came to office two years ago.
The Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) has published earlier today GDP data in line with preliminary figures in its detailed release. In Q1 2012 the Hungarian economy – due primarily to negative external market developments – contracted by 0.7 percent.
Wang Xiaochu, Deputy Minister at the Human Resources and Social Insurance Ministry of the People’s Republic of China, has paid a visit to the Ministry of National Economy earlier today, where he met with Sándor Czomba, Minister of State for Employment.
The last formal Council meeting on Justice and Home Affairs under the Danish Presidency was held on 7-8 June 2012, in Luxembourg. On the first day of the meeting home affairs issues were on agenda. Károly Kontrát, Parliamentary State Secretary was the Head of the Hungarian delegation of the Ministry of Interior.
Recently several favourable economic trends have developed in Hungary. Some of these can be identified by data published by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) and others are manifested by various international comparative studies. The below study presents, after the paper of last week, further trends, which now rather focus on changes identifiable from economic statistics, but we will also analyze competitiveness and purchasing manager indices.
Yet another Freedom House report has been released that is based on a number of incorrect arguments. It is proof of the fact that the Washington-based organisation measures democracies in Central- and Eastern-Europe with double standards. The report reveals that the organisation shows not the slightest sign of empathy or understanding towards the region, and specifically Hungary, that left communism behind twenty years ago but is still in need of a number of changes and reforms on account of the deficiencies of the inherited constitutional system.
Hungary’s delay of a vote on amendments to a disputed central bank law will help resolve differences blocking talks with the International Monetary Fund, said Mihaly Varga, the country’s chief negotiator.
Hungarian governments in the last twenty years combined have not done as much for preventing and reducing corruption and for achieving accountability as the government currently in office has in the past two years.