Steps taken by the government have helped families reduce the costs of starting the new academic year, Minister of State for Family Affairs and Youth Katalin Novák said at a press conference on Monday. She said 730,000 pupils receive textbooks at no cost for their families.
Even the beastliest Communist dictatorship failed to demolish civic tradition in Hungary, Deputy Minister of State for International and EU Affairs Gergely Prőhle said at a roundtable discussion held in the Budapest Opera House to celebrate the 25th anniversary of opening the border between Hungary and Austria.
The government wants competitive, efficient and sustainable higher education based on real values and intends to play an active role in establishing this, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said while opening the academic year at the Budapest Business School on Monday.
Hungarian accommodation establishments received 5.25 million guests in the initial seven months of 2014, who spent 13.4 million tourism nights in the country and the gross accommodation charges they paid totalled HUF 101bn. The number of domestic guests and gross accommodation charge revenues continued to record growth exceeding 10 percent, while the total number of guests and the number of tourism nights gained 7.3 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively.
It is in the interests of both parties for Hungarian-Russian cooperation in agriculture to continue, the two countries’ agriculture ministers agreed at a meeting in Moscow on Monday.
Under the Ányos Jedlik Programme, the Government promotes electrically-powered vehicles and the export of related Hungarian products, Minister of State for Economic Regulation Béla Glattfelder said at a press conference in Budapest.
Twenty-five years ago Hungary opened the borders in Sopronpuszta and this was the last step to break with communism in Hungary and in Eastern Europe, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said in Austria at the joint Hungarian-Austrian day of police.
Hungary has become the gateway to Europe for Chinese companies; and it is highly likely that, after last year’s record, Hungarian exports to China reach a new record this year, State Secretary of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday at a seminar dedicated to the Government’s ‘Opening to the East’ Policy.
The Hungarian Government provides HUF 700 bn (EUR 2.2 bn) for research, development and innovation in the 2014-2020 EU Financial Framework period, said Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Levente Magyar on Friday, in Debrecen.
The central sub sector of the state budget in the month of August 2014 posted a deficit of HUF 7.4bn, the lowest figure in ten years.