Hungary not only needs to be successful but also look successful, and the conditions are provided, said Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Trade László Szabó, at the international conference on foreign relations organised by Századvég Foundation.
In his opening speech, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office announced at the meeting of the Jewish Community Roundtable held on Thursday that the Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association proposed the establishment of a central Holocaust memorial in Budapest on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust.
Over the past ten years, the state budget deficit in the month of February was lower than the current one only on two occasions. In the second month of the year, the deficit of the central sub sector of the state budget was HUF 256.9bn, well below the amount of HUF 407.9bn recorded in February last year.
As opposed to media reports, the government expects to have 15-20 thousand more public workers this year than last year, due to the fact that in 2015, an extra HUF 40 billion will be available for this purpose in addition to last year’s increased HUF 230 billion – Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said.
At a ceremony held in Esztergom to mark introduction of the new Suzuki model, Viktor Orbán said that it is thanks to companies like Suzuki that in Hungary today 455 000 more people are in work than were in 2010.
“Neither our extremely complex agrarian funding system nor tracking, which is a fundamental principle in food production, would be capable of functioning without the general application of information technology, and accordingly it is worth investing in these technologies at both individual and community level”, Deputy State Secretary for Agricultural Economy Zsolt Feldman said in Kecskemét today at a conference entitled Precision Farming and Digital Trends in Agriculture.
Social workers’ career model will come into effect by January 2016 at the latest, Minister of State for Social Affairs and Inclusion Károly Czibere said on Wednesday at a expert-level consultation held in Székesfehérvár.
In December 2014, the volume of exports and imports both increased by 11 percent in comparison to the corresponding period of the previous year. On an annual basis, the aforementioned indicators improved by 7.1 percent and 8.8 percent, respectively.
In mid February, the European Commission approved both Hungarian Operational Programmes worked out under the supervision of the Ministry of National Development. Within the Integrated Transport Development Operational Programme (ITOP) and the Environment and Energy Efficiency Operational Programme (EEEOP), funding in total of more than HUF 2,000 bn can be applied for in 2014-2020.
In 2008, the socialist government did not take the agreement on the South Stream investment to the National Assembly, the members were not allowed to know its content, to negotiate or decide on it – Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office said.