Lasting economic growth could be achieved by Hungary in 2014, with export being the major contributing factor, said Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Szijjártó Péter at the conference ‘Export expansion: where, how, what?’, organized by the newspaper Világgazdaság in Budapest this Tuesday.
“Hungary will make every effort to support Hungarian designers and prepare them for competition in the job market” – said Monika Balatoni, State Secretary for Cultural Diplomacy of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade yesterday, at the opening of the Vienna Design Week, an international design festival. Lasting until 5 October, the event is the biggest design festival of Austria and this year’s guest is Hungary.
Hungarians know that freedom is not self-evident as they have often fought for it in the past; Hungarians are the people of freedom and “liberty and democracy should not be protected from us”, State Secretary for Cultural Diplomacy of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said at an international conference on Europe in Budapest this Thursday.
As Ministerial Commissioner for Science Diplomacy Gábor Pörzse told to the Hungarian News Agency this Tuesday, members of the Visegrad Group and Japan signed a cooperation agreement on research and development in Bratislava the very same day; the countries are promoting joint scientific projects.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has sworn in today in Parliament. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén and the leaders of parliamentary groups congratulated the new minister on his signing the oath of allegiance.
The statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the remarks of the President of the United States about governmental restraints on the Hungarian civil society
Parliamentary Committees on Saturday approved the appointment of Péter Szijjártó as Foreign Minister at their joint session.
Hungary may become the centre of trade from Asia to Europe, State Secretary of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade László Szabó said on Monday in Budapest when opening the international air cargo conference. The objective of the Hungarian Government is to position the country as the gateway of goods transport by rail, water and air.
We regard it as unacceptable that an extremist American racist organisation should hold a conference with Russian radicals here in Hungary.
Hungary has always been very proud to be the host of the Danube Commission and will continue to do anything to assist the organization – said Monika Balatoni, State Secretary for Cultural Diplomacy of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Budapest this Monday.