Montenegro is an important foreign trade partner and we want to strengthen this relation not only with investments but also with trade developments, Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Levente Magyar said at a press conference following the meeting of the intergovernmental Hungarian-Montenegrin economic joint committee on Tuesday in Budapest.
In January 2015, foreign trade continued to expand: the volume of exports and imports was up by 7.4 percent and 5.8 percent, respectively, compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The manufacturing sector has remained the main driving force of foreign trade: in the first month of the year, sales related to vehicle manufacturing and related divisions saw a massive gain again. The value of exports and imports totalled EUR 6.8bn and EUR 6.1bn, respectively, in the observed period, and thus the sector posted a surplus of EUR 709 million, up by EUR 202 million, year-on-year.
21 new border-crossing points will be opened between Hungary and Slovakia within the framework of a project to be launched this autumn, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced on Monday in Budapest after negotiating with his Slovak colleague.
At a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday, Deputy Minister of State for Development Policy Communication Nándor Csepreghy said that ministers János Lázár and Miklós Seszták have ordered an immediate halt to construction of the section of the M4 motorway between Abony and Fegyvernek.
A bust of former Hungarian PM József Antall was unveiled on Tuesday by his widow, Mrs Klára Antall in the wing of the European Parliament in Brussels named after him.
At the official opening on Tuesday of a “government window” serving the needs of the public in Sárbogárd, Fejér County, the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office said that Hungarian public administration is undergoing the biggest transformation it has seen in the last 150 years; as a result of this, by late autumn 2015 citizens will be able to deal with at least 300 administrative matters at 278 government windows in almost 200 districts.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has discharged the Director General of the Constitution Protection Office, with effect from 31 March.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó opened the office of the Hungarian National Trading House in Santiago de Chile.
On public television on Monday, Minister of State Lászlóné Németh announced that, having received the necessary operating permit, the First National Utility Company (ENKSZ) may start operating in the gas sector on 1 April.
The public will be informed of which state background institutions had financial links with brokerage firms, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said during a questions and answers session in Parliament on Monday.