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Government signs partnership agreement with Leier Hungária

Prime Minister’s Office, January 9, 2014 4:56 PM

The Government of Hungary signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the local unit of Austrian construction materials manufacturer Leier, based in Győr (northwest Hungary) on Thursday.

Strengthening Hungarian-Azeri economic relations

Prime Minister’s Office, January 8, 2014 2:32 PM

Hungarian exports to Azerbaijan have expanded by 29 percent in the past year, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó said.

Highly regarded former football players and coaches should be held in high esteem

Prime Minister’s Office, January 8, 2014 2:31 PM

"No country can disregard its successful former players and put aside its own traditions, and accordingly highly respected retired football players and coaches should be held in especially high esteem" – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Duna TV after attending Olympic bronze medallist and former national football team coach Ferenc Kovács’s 80th birthday celebrations.

Prime Minister sent a letter of condolence to his Portuguese counterpart

Prime Minister’s Office, January 7, 2014 11:14 AM

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent a letter of condolence to his Portuguese counterpart Pedro Passos Coelho over the death of soccer legend Eusebio, who died on Sunday at the age of 71.

The Government Information Centre's reaction to the statement by Federation of Jewish Communities MAZSIHISZ

Prime Minister’s Office, January 2, 2014 3:44 PM

The Government has difficulty understanding the statement made by the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities today. Hungary's Fundamental Law clearly states that "We date the restoration of our country’s self-determination, lost on the nineteenth day of March 1944, from the second day of May 1990, when the first freely elected organ of popular representation was formed. We shall consider this date to be the beginning of our country’s new democracy and constitutional order".

Holocaust Memorial Year 2014 in Hungary is commencing

Prime Minister’s Office, December 31, 2013 2:17 PM

With 2014 approaching, the beginning of Holocaust Memorial Year in Hungary is also imminent. The year-long commemorative event aims to reach out to the widest possible range of Hungarian society and to help the public understand, remember and mend the scars of one of the greatest traumas of Hungarian history.

EU summit breakthrough regarding the Banking Union

Prime Minister’s Office, December 21, 2013 11:37 AM

The two-day summit meeting of the European Union made a breakthrough regarding the Banking Union but saw only some promising initiatives concerning economic coordination, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Brussels on Friday.

Discussion on Budapest-Belgrade railway cooperation with Chinese officials

Prime Minister’s Office, December 21, 2013 9:52 AM

Hungarian and Chinese government officials met in Budapest on Friday to discuss cooperation on the 2.89 billion dollar upgrade of the Budapest-Belgrade railway line State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó said.

Viktor Orbán encourages Turkish investment in Hungary

Prime Minister’s Office, December 18, 2013 4:16 PM

Hungarian-Turkish relations have strong roots dating back several decades and have a promising future as well, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a Turkish-Hungarian business forum organised in Ankara.

The recently renovated baths were reopened in Gyula

Prime Minister’s Office, December 18, 2013 3:46 PM

The Castle Baths on Gyula have been restored at a cost of almost HUF 1.2bn (some 4 million euros) and with the opening of the new AquaPalota (AquaPalace) water park on 6300 sqr metres, with 5 new pools and several new amenities, the facility has become an all-year bathing complex.