The Defence Policy Directors of the Visegrad states (V4) met in Budapest on 10-11 February 2014 for the second time under the Hungarian V4 presidency.
Minister from the European Union's member states voted on 1507 genetically modified maize at a session of the EU General Affairs Committee on 11 February. An overwhelming majority of member states voted against authorising the cultivation of the GMO maize, which despite this will still be given a green light by the European Commission
Following the meeting of the Chinese-Hungarian Joint Economic Committee in Beijing, State Secretary for External Economic Relations and the Committee's Co-chair Péter Szijjártó stressed that cooperation on agriculture and tourism has strengthened between the two countries.
The Hungarian ambulance service will be much more efficient in the future, thanks to the new integrated command centre software, State Minister for Health Miklós Szócska said at a press conference on Tuesday. The new command software is currently being installed and operators receive their training.
Péter Wintermantel, Deputy State Secretary in charge of Global Affairs, had a meeting with the representatives of Hungarian NGOs involved in international development cooperation and humanitarian aid on February 11, 2014. The Hungarian Deputy State Secretary stressed that NGOs played a vital role in the implementation of Hungary’s development policy. He added that the Foreign Ministry advocates continuous dialogue with NGOs so as to make them successful in the area of international development.
At the meeting of the Chinese-Hungarian Joint Economic Committee in Beijing, Co-chair of the Committee Péter Szijjártó noted that Hungary is China’s top investment destination, its second largest import source as well as its third most important trading partner in the Central and Eastern European region.
We must assure that by 2020 only 10 percent of household waste reaches landfills in Hungary, the Ministry of Rural Development's Minister of State for Environmental Affairs said on Tuesday at the press conference organised to announce the latest TeSzedd ("You Pick It!") litter collection drive.
Following a period of falling investment over the past 5-6 years, last year there was a positive U-turn in this field and data show growth of some 10 percent in the third quarter of last year, Minister of State for Economic Regulation Kristóf Szatmáry said at a press conference in Budapest.
The reference to Ukraine's European perspective in the conclusions issued on 10 February 2013 by the European Union's foreign ministers is appropriate, Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi declared.
“The Hungarian defence industry has not been but will be”, Minister of Defence Csaba Hende stated at the opening of the conference “Security Market 2013–2014” on Tuesday, February 11 in Budapest.