Montenegro’s Euro-Atlantic integration being the key to the stability in the Balkans, Hungary is committed to supporting the country’s integration – said Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó.
Deputy State Secretary for Development Policy Communication, Nándor Csepreghy stressed that the most recent strategic partnership agreements of the government concluded with mainly large enterprises so far will be expanded and aimed at the SME sector.
In Q4 2014, the Hungarian economy grew by 3.4 percent year-on-year and by 0.9 percent quarter-on-quarter. This dynamic growth came in well above prior market expectations of 2.8 percent. Full-year growth in 2014 was as much as 3.5 percent and thus economic output has already reached pre-crisis levels.
The largest Hungarian aid program to date has been launched in Ukraine; Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade help refugees in seven regions of the war-ridden country.
“Even a fragile peace is better than war,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his Friday interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, referring to Thursday’s Minsk agreement aimed at resolving the Ukrainian conflict.
“Croatia and Hungary agree that the stability of the Western Balkans is important”, Minister of Defence Csaba Hende told Hungarian News Agency MTI on Thursday, after holding discussions in Zagreb with his Croatian counterpart, Minister of Defence Ante Kotromanovic.
All areas of Hungarian-US relations should be dealt with by strengthening dialogue, Hungary's new ambassador to the US said in an interview prior to her departure to Washington, DC.
Though the two countries might take different approaches, they were always in agreement about the most important issues and will find means to keep it this way in the future, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Budapest.
Following a year-on-year increase of 5.8 percent in November 2014, Hungary’s industrial output growth accelerated, as in December 2014 the sector expanded by 7.1 percent in comparison to the same period of the previous year.
At the meeting of the European Council, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán thanked in the name of Hungary to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande for their efforts to achieve a ceasefire agreement and peace – press chief of the Prime Minister Bertalan Havasi said.