“The Ministry for Innovation and Technology is drawing up a government sustainable development strategy”, the Ministry’s State Secretary for Construction Economy, Infrastructure and Sustainability Anita Boros announced at the official opening of the Sustainable Hungary 2020 – The Year of Sustainability series of programs at the Széchenyi István University in Győr on Monday.
“The funding for the Hungarian-American Fulbright scholarship program will by increasing from the current 250 million forints (EUR 740,000) to 400 million forints (EUR 1.2 million) by 2022”, the Ministry for Innovation and Technology’s State Secretary for European Union Development Projects Zsigmond Perényi announced at a press conference in Budapest on Monday.
“Hungary is highly respected within the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in view of the fact that in recent years is has done very much to guarantee the protection and security of nuclear facilities both within its own territory and globally”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Monday in his speech at the IAEA International Conference on Nuclear Security.
“The value of state assets has increased significantly to total 6093 billion forints (EUR 17.98 billion) by the end of 2018, while sovereign debt is getting smaller year by year”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga explained on Kossuth Radio’s “Sunday Paper” show.
“It is still not up to the Hungarian government whether we return to good Hungarian-Ukrainian relations”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó wrote on his Facebook page with relation to the Ukrainian Language Act issue.
Ministerial Commissioner for Space Research Dr. Orsolya Ferencz visited Singapore on 6-7 February 2020 as the head of the first Hungarian space industry delegation, to represent Hungary at the Global Space and Technology Convention (GSTC), a major space industry conference.
“We have been witness to the application of pressure intended as a media event”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 current affairs television on Friday with relation to Thursday’s migrant march in Serbia.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó informed his Ukrainian partner with relation to the Hungarian proposal for simultaneously teaching Ukrainian as a minority language and preserving the native language of Transcarpathian Hungarian during his visit to Kiev, he told reporters at a joint press conference with Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitro Kuleba following their meeting in Kiev on Friday.
Similarly to last year, in 2020 the budget also closed the first month of the year with a surplus. Last year, the Hungarian economy grew by around 5 percent, which also provided the foundations for the positive balance of public finances during the first month of this year.
“As a result of close inter-governmental and political cooperation that is based on common values, our intention to also develop our relations within the fields of innovation and defence, in addition to education and training cooperation, has been reinforced”, Minister of Defence Dr. Tibor Benkő said on Friday 7 February after receiving Israel’s Ambassador to Budapest Yacov Hadas-Handelsman for an introductory visit.