American General Motors and its subsidiary Opel will increase their staff by five hundred people and will establish a new training centre, as well as a service centre in Hungary, Péter Szijjártó and Joachim Koschnicke, the Opel Group’s Vice President of European Government Relations announced at a press conference.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said that Hungary is open to discuss all issues with the United States, commenting on the news of Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland’s Budapest visit this March.
At their meeting held on Friday in Budapest both Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and British State Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Philip Hammond urged that all parties should fully respect the Minsk agreement.
As of next week, bank customers will feel some tangible effects as banks are to repay income generated by unfair, unilateral modifications to contracts and by exploiting bid-ask exchange rate gaps, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at a press conference in Budapest.
On Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó welcomed British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Philip Hammond who is paying a two-day visit to Budapest.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade communicated to MTI that a delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade will travel to Moscow in the beginning of March to negotiate about the participation of Hungarian companies in infrastructure development projects in Russia.
Hungarian Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog met EU Commisioner for Justive, Consumers and Gender Equality Vĕra Jourová on Thursday in Budapest.
The number of people in employment continued to stay above the 4 million mark, according to the flash report of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) published earlier this morning.
Friday morning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán welcomed British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Philip Hammond in his office– Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Bertalan Havasi announced.
More than eighty local governments are account holders at financial institutions belonging to Buda-Cash Group in Hungary. As Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga announced yesterday, the Government will enable the State Treasury to make transfers to accounts designated by the local government instead of those at Buda-Cash banks in case the only account of the municipality has been blocked.