The Ministry of Rural Development's Minister of State for Environmental Affairs Zoltán Illés is calling on the Government to establish a HUF 350 million fund to finance the total elimination of the Hortobágy dangerous waste storage facility.
The Government aspires to conclude a financial agreement which is the most favourable for the country: negotiations on financial issues regarding the construction of the two new nuclear blocks for the Paks power plant are still ongoing, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said on Magyarország élőben (Hungary live) programme of HírTV.
Farmers do not always properly apply the regulations introduced last month in relation to the use of farmland, the Ministry of Rural Development's Deputy State Secretary for Legal, Administration and Agrarian Vocational Training Attila Simon said at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday.
During a visit to the Wine and Alcoholic Beverages Directorate of the National Food Chain Safety Office (NFSCO), Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas and Ministerial Commissioner for Wine Sector Development Eliza Kiss viewed the institutions activities aimed at facilitating the work of wine producers and the work phase of the National Tasting of Red and Rosé Wines, which is currently underway.
Social consultations have been launched for discussing the INTERREG EUROPE programme, one of the inter-regional partnership programmes for the period 2014-2020.
Consumer prices were on average 0.4 percent higher in December year-on-year, while for the entire year of 2013 the inflation rate was 1.7 percent. In the last month of the previous year, consumer prices continued to decrease: the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) even published data over the past half a year indicating that inflation hit new record lows month after month. The prices of goods which the inflation basket for pensioners contains also declined, which is an unprecedented phenomenon hitherto.
There is further room for expansion in Hungarian-Russian agrarian relations, which have developed dynamically recently, Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas told Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
At the end of last year, the European Council and the European Parliament signed the European Union's new, 7th Environment Action Programme, which will come into effect in January; the Programme determines the EUs main environment and climate objectives until 2020. The adoption of the programme was preceded by a long process of negotiations between member states, the Council and the European Parliament.
A cooperation agreement was concluded between Hungary and Russia on the peaceful use of nuclear power yesterday, within the framework of which Russia will be involved in maintaining the current capacity of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant by providing a loan for the construction of two new blocks to replace the plant's outdated ones.
Hungarian light-heavyweight boxer Zsolt Erdei (39) announced at a press conference on Wednesday that he will fight at least another professional match for the WBO European Champion title on 8 March in the central Hungarian city of Kecskemét.