The planned 10 per cent drop in gas prices must be applied to district heating as well, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Salgótarjan on 10 December, where he held talks on the northern town’s debt settlement. The Prime Minister said that the Government's objective was to free the municipality of its loans by 2014.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held talks with Philipp Missfelder, Foreign Policy Spokesperson for the German CDU party.
On 12 December, the Government will approve an agreement on the purchase of E.ON's gas business in Hungary, Minister of State heading the Prime Minister's Office János Lázár said on Thursday.
The Government wishes to reach an agreement with municipal councils regarding debt takeover by spring 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén stated on Wednesday at a press conference with Mayor of Eger László Habis.
Government spokesman András Giró-Szász stated on Wednesday that the Ministry of National Development had been asked to work out the conditions under which a 10% cut could be implemented in the case of gas and electricity prices.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó and Serbian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Goran Knezevic are the co-presidents of the Hungarian-Serbian Economic Joint Committee in Budapest.
The Office of the Government Spokesman, the Fidesz party faction and various governmental politicians have condemned to the greatest possible degree the statement made in Parliament by Jobbik MP Márton Gyöngyösi. According to the Office of the Government Spokesman, the Government takes the strictest possible action against every form of racism and anti-Semitic behaviour and does everything in order to ensure that malicious voices incompatible with European norms are driven back, adding that every citizen will be protected from such insults.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held negotiations in Parliament with Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, who is on an official visit to Hungary.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held talks with Goran Knezevic, Serbian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, about modernising the Budapest-Belgrade railway line and opening three new crossing points between Hungary and Serbia.
On Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Péter Feldmájer, President of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Religious Communities (MAZSIHISZ) in his office and they discussed the situation of the Hungarian Jewish community.