The Hungarian Minister for National Resources decorated Mr. Jan Kennis, Dutch cultural diplomat – current vice president of SICA – with the award Pro Cultura Hungarica. The decoration was handed over, in the name of the Minister by H.E. Gyula Sümeghy, Ambassador of Hungary to the Netherlands during a short ceremony at the Embassy on 11 May 2012.
Workday-adjusted industrial output was 0.6 percent higher in March 2012 than the year before, whereas on the basis of seasonally- and workday-adjusted statistics in the third month of the year output was 0.6 percent higher than in the previous month. Unadjusted data signal a decline of 1.6 percent in industrial production. For the future a very positive piece of data is the 17.1 percent year-on-year increase of new orders in the surveyed month.
János Martonyi met Argentinean Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman in Buenos Aires on May 14, 2012. Reviewing the bilateral relations of the countries, the two Ministers pointed out that there were several unexploited opportunities in the development of bilateral cooperation, especially in the field of economic relations.
Budapest, May 14, 2012
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed after the 14 May 2012 faction meeting of the governing Fidesz-KDNP alliance that Parliament must remain in session until mid-July under any circumstances because the situation in Europe may require decisions which may involve Parliament. At the meeting, the Prime Minister also proposed a new Fidesz faction leader in the person of Antal Rogán.
Interview with Foreign Minister János Martonyi by The Hindu on May 13, 2012.
Before the Hungarian-Argentinean bilateral diplomatic discussions, János Martonyi met the representatives of the Hungarians living in the South American state during his official visit to Argentina: he commemorated József Mindszenty, attended an oath of citizenship ceremony, and presented the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary to the editor-in-chief of the Argentínai Magyar Hírlap (Hungarian Journal of Argentina).
The Government has decided on the commencement of one of the largest projects in the capital, the Ludovika University Campus project, and the funding necessary for its implementation, Balázs Fürjes, Government Commissioner for priority Budapest projects said.
"Giving poor and vulnerable people secure and equitable rights to access land and other natural resources is a key condition in the fight against hunger and poverty", said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva in his speech at today's special session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) at FAO headquarters in Rome, where 124 member states ceremoniously adopted the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Land Tenure.
Earlier today the government has submitted to the National Assembly the bills about the implementation of the telecom tax, the financial transaction duty and the uniform insurance tax.