Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met John McCain, current Republican Senator of Arizona, leading figure of the Republican party, in Budapest on Friday afternoon.
Thanks to the cooperation with the OECD, the renewal of the Hungarian administration system could be a reference in the region, Europe and eventually out of Europe as well, said Minister of Public Administration and Justice, Tibor Navracsics at the Forum of Public Administration arranged for European public administration leaders in Budapest this Friday.
Hungary spent 620 billion forints (some 2 million euros) on the young generation within the framework of the National Youth Strategy in the 2012-13 period, the Ministry for National Economy and the Ministry for Human Resources said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
Hungary will host a poetry and prose recital festival this spring to commemorate the European Year of the Family and the 100 years since the outbreak of World War I, Minister of State for Culture János Halász said at a press conference on Wednesday.
The exchange rate is exclusively in the Central Bank's scope of authority and government should keep away from openly discussing this issue, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday. He addressed a conference named after Alexandre Lámfalussy, a Belgian banker originally from Hungary, who helped bring about the creation of the euro.
As regards the Ukrainian situation, the Hungarian Government must be prepared for all possible eventualities including the worst case, and this is why a new operative task unit has been set up to coordinate the operations of government agencies and other organisations, Foreign Minister János Martonyi told InfoRadio on Thursday.
In the opinion of Minister of State for Taxation and Financial Affairs Gábor Orbán, the Hungarian economy has been set on a sustainable growth path, as the structure of the economy has become sounder and positive trends appear to persist.
The Strategic Partnership Agreement, between the vehicle industry supplier Delphi’s Hungarian group of companies and the Government of Hungary, was signed by Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga and Delphi Hungary Manager Zoltán Jámbor in Budapest.
Last year, the bandwidth of internet access doubled at more than one thousand schools in Hungary, Minister of State for Infocommunication Vilmos Vályi-Nagy announced at a press conference on the achievements of the project Sulinet+ in Mezőkeresztes on 30 January, 2014. Developments are to continue in some 3800 educational institutions this year.
Following the official meeting between Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orbán and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the agriculture ministers of Hungary and Poland also held bilateral talks in the Parliament building. The main topics of the meeting between Sándor Fazekas and Stanislaw Kalemba included GMO policy, the domestic distribution system for Common Agricultural Policy funding, supporting the tobacco industry, opportunities for cooperation provided by the European Innovation Partnership, and cooperation between national rural networks.