The volume of retail sales has increased by more than 8 per cent in the first month of this year compared to the same period of the previous year – Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga announced.
The economic growth of Hungary will remain sustainable and stable in 2015 as well, the 2.5 per cent projected growth rate is still realistic – Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said on Wednesday in the Miskolc plant of the German Bosch concern.
Participating in a two-day working visit in Tokyo, Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy Levente Magyar informed MTI in a phone interview that a Japanese automotive company is planning an investment of EUR 50 million (HUF 15.25 billion) and the creation of 200 new jobs in Hungary in the near future.
PM Viktor Orbán received the leaders of those 67 local governments that were affected by the Buda-Cash scandal. A decision has been made on the government providing financially endangered local governments an extraordinary support of approximately HUF 245 million – Bertalan Havasi announced.
In Hungary, no Holocaust memorial site can be established without the support of the Hungarian Jewry, “there will either be a museum with them or no museum at all” – Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár said in an interview on Tuesday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a phone interview given to MTI on Monday from Geneva that Hungary has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the brutal actions committed against the Christian community by the Islamic State (ISIS) and to prosecute the perpetrators with rigour.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade László Szabó had an official meeting with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Melia, the Head of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, responsible for Europe and Eurasia on 2 March 2015.
Ökotárs Foundation has lost the case at first instance in which it sued the Prime Minister’s Office and Deputy State Secretary for Development Policy Communication Nándor Csepreghy on the grounds of defamation.
Minister of Justice László Trócsányi welcomed EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Vĕra Jourová on 27th February 2015. The Minister informed Commissioner Jourová about the latest legislative measures and presented the Fundamental Law of Hungary. Mr Trócsányi also indicated that most of the previous disputes were settled by legal solutions.
Democracy needs to be promoted even today, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said at a ceremony held on Monday on the occasion of 25th anniversary of the opening of the Hanns Seidel Foundation’s Budapest office.