State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó met with Chairman of Vnesheconombank (VEB) Vladimir Dmitriev in Budapest and discussed the bank’s plans with Dunaferr.
Minister of State János Lázár held a two-and-a-half hour meeting with representatives of Hungarian Jewish communities today, within the framework of the Roundtable of Jewish Communities. Following the event, he addressed the press at a doorstep press conference.
Foreign Minister János Martonyi paid an official visit to Berlin on 5 February to hold talks with his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Local governments that managed their resources well and required little or no consolidation will receive HUF 50 billion in funding over the next four years – Minister of State for local governments András Tállai said.
The seasonally adjusted Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) for January 2014 increased to 57.9 points, according to the press release of the Hungarian Association of Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory Management (HALPIM).
A whole network of scientific research centres must be established so as to make Hungary a research and development hub as well as a manufacturing centre, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said, addressing the ELI laser centre’s foundation stone laying ceremony in Szeged, South Hungary.
The balance of the central sub sector of the state budget in the first month of 2014 was in line with the Government’s prior estimates, as a deficit of HUF 75.4bn was recorded.
International media interest in Hungary intensified and the country's image in the foreign media improved overall last year compared to 2012, a report released on Thursday by the Nézőpont research institute shows. Deputy State Secretary for International Communications, Ferenc Kumin highlighted the positive tendencies in his presentation as well.
Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga, speaking on public service television M1 this morning, said that the agreement on the financing of the Paks nuclear power plant expansion project offers conditions which are more favourable than those available on the market. Meeting in Moscow, the two parties agreed to a variable-rate loan of EUR 10bn with a tenor of 21 years.
The Hungarian exhibitors were well-received at the world's largest fruit & vegetable expo, the Fruit Logistica in Berlin, at which Hungary could be the featured guest in 2016, the President of the Hungarian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Organisation and Product Board (FruitVeB) told Hungarian news agency MTI at the expo that opened on Wednesday.