The Foreign Ministry resolutely denied on Friday reports about Hungary supplying military technology to Ukraine.
The state secretariat for cultural diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade plans a series of international thematic events to coincide with the Ignac Semmelweis memorial year announced by UNESCO for 2015, marking the 150th anniversary of his death, the ministry said on Thursday.
Hungary has evoked the admiration of the world in 1989; at the time Hungarian people had leaders who have had the courage to take risks and their decisions meant the only glimmer of hope to refugees, said father Imre Kozma, founding president of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service at the opening of the event series called ‘Day of Welcoming’ in Budapest this Thursday.
Hankook Tire Magyarország Gyártó és Kereskedelmi Kft., Eximbank, K&H Bank, UniCredit Bank and Raiffeisen Bank agreed on a Credit Facility Agreement of EUR 120,000,000, which was signed today by the representatives of the Parties. The Credit Facility will provide the necessary financing related to the export activity of Hankook Tire Magyarország kft.
The Government of Hungary is seriously concerned about and strongly condemns the senseless violence based on radical ideology, which through the military advancement of the so-called Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation in Iraq resulted in the deterioration of the security situation and in particular through the increased religious violence threatens the security of the entire Middle Eastern region and the mere existence of the Christian communities.
Fears in the press regarding the termination of Hungarian-Estonian relations on the closure of the Hungarian embassy in Tallinn are unreasonable, and the Hungarian institution operating in the Estonian capital is even strengthened by the Government, answered Monika Balatoni, State Secretary for Cultural Diplomacy of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to the Hungarian News Agency this Thursday.
Film screenings, literary and musical programs are awaiting the interested among contemporary art exhibitions in Budapest City Park, at the Art Moments Festival starting this Thursday.
Mexican-owned Nemak Győr Ltd, a manufacturer of cylinder heads and engine blocks, is to create 100 new jobs with a HUF 5 billion (EUR 17.8 million) expansion project in Győr, to which the Hungarian Government has provided a one-off subsidy of HUF 406 million, announced State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó at a press conference on Friday.
Tibor Navracsics, Hungary's candidate for EC commissioner, said on Thursday evening that he wanted to represent Hungary in the EU and represent the EU in his own country.
The Government signed a strategic partnership agreement with Ganz Holding, making Ganz the third Hungarian-owned company with which the government signed such an agreement.