Minister of State for Food Chain Supervision and Agricultural Economy Endre Kardeván received Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Co-Chair of the Hungarian-Ukrainian Joint Committee on Economic Cooperation Mikola Prysyazhnyuk at the Ministry of Rural Development in Budapest today, to hold discussions within the framework of the Committee.
Central Europe has been successfully renewed and has a competitive economy, making it is a good destination for foreign investors, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a lecture held at Istanbul's Marmara University on Wednesday.
Central Europe will be the next decade's fastest-growing region within the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a Hungarian-Turkish business forum in Istanbul on Tuesday.
Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas has ordered the targeted monitoring of frozen marine fish throughout the country. During testing, inspectors check that packaging includes the required information in accordance with regulations and the thickness of the permitted layer of ice on fish, in addition to performing tests of a sensory and toxicological nature.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán inaugurated a Hungarian Cultural Centre in Istanbul on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is paying an official visit to Turkey and will meet the Turkish president and prime minister on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Parliament passed the new Penitentiary Code including an objective to make prisons self-sufficient.
An exhibition on the 1989 Pan-European Picnic, an event that eventually led to the dismantling of the Iron Curtain and the re-unification of Germany, opened at the Hungarian Embassy of Berlin late on Monday.
The National Assembly has passed the Act on Referendums. The motion was submitted back in June 2011 by Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics, however, discussion on the matter was put on hold for over two years following the general debate, as in order for the process to continue the Act on Electoral Procedure had to be adopted. The Referendum Act will enter into force on the day when the date for the 2014 parliamentary elections is set.
The National Waste Management Agency (OHÜ) signed agreements for next year's selective waste collection with the first three public service providers on Tuesday in Budapest.