The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary offers its sincere heartfelt condolences with regard to the outrageous attack in Turku which claimed innocent lives and injured so many.
There is a Hungarian national among those injured in the Barcelona attack: a Hungarian woman is lightly injured, but she has already been released from hospital, Levente Magyar, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said at his press conference held on Friday.
The terrible Barcelona attack shocked every person with a kind-hearted disposition, and draws attention to the fact that every country of Europe is being threatened by the increasing risk of terrorism, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
Advantage Austria conducted a survey scrutinising Hungary as an investment site. The International Agency of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce conducted a public opinion poll among Austrian branch offices in Hungary for the first time. In total 166 Austrian businesses settled in Hungary took part in the survey. Final conclusion: the businesses concerned are fundamentally optimistic as regards processes in Hungary. Eighty-one per cent of businesses believe that there is an unchanged or improving development in Hungary’s economic situation this year.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was deeply shocked to learn about the Barcelona terrorist incident, and condemns the cowardly attack in the strongest possible terms.
The contracts of the economic development programme which serve to support Hungarian communities in the Carpathian Basin were signed in Muravidék (Prekmurje), Slovenia as the first Member State of the European Union, and from the allocation of HUF 500 million provided by the Hungarian State, 155 family businesses were awarded grants.
According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, Martin Schulz, chancellor-candidate of the German social democrats would be better off minding his own party’s business, rather than criticising Hungary and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was shocked to learn about the mass accident on the Island of Madeira which claimed the lives of 13 pilgrims, including the life of a Hungarian national.
Hungary must make itself relevant in the United States, László Szabó, Hungary’s new Ambassador to Washington, who took up his post in the capital of the United States a few days ago, pointed out in his interview given to the Hungarian news agency MTI.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of ASEAN a flag hoisting ceremony was organized by the Budapest based missions of ASEAN Member States.