The only way for Hungary to stay on the sustainable growth path attained by serious efforts is by establishing itself in the digital age. Within the framework of the programme Digital Hungary, the Government is therefore to implement, with market players and institutions involved, info-communication development on an unexampled scale, covering the whole country – Minister of National Development Miklós Seszták announced at one of the first stations of the initiative in Nyíregyháza on 19 March, 2015.
Péter Szijjártó said to journalists that the government will make its final decision on Hungarian military participation against the Islamic State when consultations with the parliamentary parties end, adding that he believes, as regards this issue, that a two-thirds majority is an achievable and "realistic scenario".
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu on his party’s victory at the last elections in a letter.
The Ministry of Agriculture’s Parliamentary State Secretary, István Nagy, held talks with the Russian Federation’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture Ilya Shestakov in Moscow today.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is attending the two-day summit of the European Union in Brussels. According to the Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister held informal discussions on Thursday in Brussels with the cabinet members of the Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, Tibor Navracsics.
Péter Szijjártó confirmed that the Hungarian involvement in the international action against the Islamic State is expected to cost HUF 20 billion in the first year, adding that they are negotiating with the United States about providing equipment worth roughly HUF 7 billion.
Reaction to Prime Minister of Romania Victor Ponta’s statements with relation to Hungary made in his interview with Reuters.
Hungary condemns in the strongest terms the terrorist attack committed on 18 March in the Bardo Museum in Tunis against innocent civilians and foreign tourists.
Dynamic expansion within the tourism sector is continuing in 2015. In January, the number of arrivals and tourism nights were up by 10.5 percent and almost 9 percent, respectively, year-on-year. Revenues at accommodation establishments grew even more dynamically, by some 25 percent.
With the March payments included, Hungary has succeeded in drawing HUF 7200 billion from the funds available for Hungary during the 2007-2013 budgetary period. Until mid-March, bills and pre-payments amounting to HUF 325 billion have been paid and accounted. According to the monthly payment rate set in the respective government decree, the target for the end of March is HUF 395 billion, which we have succeeded in fulfilling to 82% by the middle of the month.