The draft of the 2015 budget includes the allocation of more funding for public education than there is available this year, Minister of State for Public Education Judit Czunyiné Bertalan said at a regional forum for teachers in the eastern Hungarian town of Debrecen on Wednesday.
Minister of Justice László Trócsányi gave an interview to Belgian daily La Libre Belgique on 7 November. The Minister described Hungary as a “reliable partner of the European Union”.
The budget bill submitted to Parliament aims to allocate HUF 118.8 billion (EUR 383 million) to sports, an increase of 20.7% compared to this year, Minister of State for Sports István Simicskó said at a Budapest press conference on Thursday.
Moody’s upgraded the country’s credit rating outlook from negative to stable, stating Government achievements in curbing debt and igniting economic growth. The institution finds three key factors behind this improvement.
The government signed a strategic partnership agreement with Kőröstej group on Thursday.
„Without the reunification of Germany, the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe could not have regained their freedom and the reunification of Europe would also have been unsuccessful”, Viktor Orbán said in his speech at the headquarters of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Munich.
“The United States is putting pressure on Hungary because of the South Stream gas pipeline and the planned expansion of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Munich on Thursday in reply to questions from the audience following his speech at the headquarters of the CSU-affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation.
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade negotiated with the Japanese Foreign Minister and the Minister of Agriculture during his one and a half day visit in Tokyo, and held talks with the executives of several Japanese companies with operating investments in Hungary about further investments and creating new jobs in Hungary.
An instalment of EUR 2bn, agreed upon in the loan agreement Hungary concluded with the European Commission in the autumn of 2008, was transferred at the end of October 2014 to the account of the European Union. Due to technical accounting issues, Hungary’s state debt is lower as of today.
Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga is to inaugurate the Honorary Consulate of Hungary in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, on 7 November. The Hungarian Government considers the Central-Asian country to be a strategic partner and improving Hungarian-Kazakh relations has been a priority of the Government’s Opening to the East policy.