“The government’s goal remains unchanged: to assist families in home creation and help young people acquire their own home, and the latest figures published today indicate that we are on the right track and it is worth continuing the subsidies”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga declared in assessment of the latest figures published by the Central Statistical Office.
Launching the national consultation, the goal of the government is to reach “points of understanding” with society on issues which determine public discourse such as the damages awarded by courts due to poor prison conditions or the issue of the Gyöngyöspata damages, Örs Farkas stated on the Tuesday programme of the public service television news channel M1.
“The goal of the construction that has been going on since 2010 is moving forward according to a strategy that was thought out in advance. The Hungarian government has determined the strategic areas that either represent the required foundations for economic growth, or the system of instruments required for the welfare and prosperity of the Hungarian people, and the acquisition of which will enable these strategic portfolio elements to contribute to the growth of the Hungarian economy”, Andrea Bártfai-Mager said in an interview for Hungarian financial news portal Portfolio.
“The coronavirus epidemic is a serious matter and must not be exploited for political gain”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minster of State for Information and the International Representation of Hungary Tamás Menczer stressed on Hungarian M1 current affairs television on Monday evening.
Following a meeting in Warsaw on Monday, the agriculture ministers of the Eastern European and Baltic countries issued a joint statement declaring that maintaining the current level of funding available for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is vital to enabling the fulfilment of the European Union’s climate protection commitments. The Hungarian government will be doing everything possible to protect the agricultural funding due to Hungarian farmers. It is unacceptable that farmers, or the Hungarian people via food price increases, be made to pay the price of climate protection.
“Teachers will be receiving a ten percent pay rise in July”, the Minister of Human Capacities announced in Budapest on Monday.
“Facilitating the integration of Moldova into the European Union is one of the priorities of Hungarian foreign policy, and we are now placing even more emphasis on this issue”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary Levente Magyar said on Monday in Budapest.
“South Korean Lotte Aluminium Ltd. will be establishing its new parts plant in Tatabánya with an investment of some 44 billion forints (EUR 130.5 million)”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary announced at a press conference in Budapest on Monday.
Pension bonds will be launched shortly, and the minimum tie-up period will be ten years, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said in an interview given to mfor.hu.
State Secretary for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács has responded to the article published a few days ago on Jewish culture and life news portal Tablet claiming that Jewish Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész has been “dumped” from the Hungarian National Curriculum.