When consulting with EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica on Thursday in Brussels, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said that Hungary continues its policy of tied aid credits.
In its winter economic forecast the European Commission acknowledged that the Hungarian economic model works - Minister of State for Government Communications András Giró-Szász said.
The conservative German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Thursday, entitled “We do not want a multicultural society”.
The Hungarian defence minister has proposed that NATO should set up a 40-strong integration unit in Hungary.
The Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy announced on Wednesday in Budapest that Hungarian companies reached unique export success in South Korea.
The balance of the central government budget in the first month of 2015 was in line with prior Government estimates. The deficit of the central sub sector of the state budget was HUF 53.8bn in January 2015.
State Secretary for Cooperation in European and International Affairs of the Ministry of Justice Barna Berke took part in the Informal Meeting of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs and the related Eastern Partnership meeting, held on 29-30 January 2015 in Riga, Latvia.
In an interview with Hungarian television channel HírTV, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “We must sign a flexible gas supply contract with Russia – one that can be extended, if necessary.”
Regulation related to the combating of money laundering and the financing of terrorism has been a Hungarian financial policy priority for more than 15 years. One of the key factors of an efficient anti-money laundering policy is the up-to-date knowledge of experts at participating authorities and financial services providers.
Péter Szijjártó said at the opening ceremony of the regional consultation of the UN World Humanitarian Summit that humanitarian and international development policy is an integral and crucially important part of Hungary’s foreign policy; approximately HUF 1 billion was spent on humanitarian actions between 2010 and 2014.