On Tuesday, Péter Kaderják, State Secretary for Energy and Climate Policy, Ministry for Innovation and Technology (ITM) presented the energy and climate strategy decisions of the Government in his speech delivered at the Electricity Security Workshop of the International Energy Agency of Paris.
The National Public Health Centre appointed Szent László Hospital, Budapest to isolate patients, if any.
Minister of Human Capacities Miklós Kásler emphasised that the disease has so far only appeared sporadically in Europe. Based on currently available information three and one confirmed cases have been identified in France and in Germany, respectively, Austria and Romania reported one non-confirmed case, each and in Hungary there were two suspected cases but in each of them this disease was excluded.
“A group of young men attempted to get into Hungarian territory in an organised and violent manner in the small hours of Tuesday morning at the road border crossing point at Röszke, and people smugglers with knowledge of the local area are suspected of having assisted the large group”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister declared at the site of the incident
“The dimensional transition of the economy must be continued, and accordingly Hungarian investment policy is encouraging development projects rather than production”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday at the year-opening event of the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Deutsch-Ungarische Industrie- und Handelskammer, DUIHK).
Minister of Defence Tibor Benkő received Sweden’s Ambassador to Budapest Dag Hartelius in his office on Tuesday, 28 January.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his spouse, Anikó Lendvai, laid a wreath at the mausoleum of former Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria in Krakow.
“The time has come for Christian-conservative green politics: Europe must practice a climate policy that does not place the burden of the costs of climate neutral economic transition onto the poorest countries”, Minister of Justice Judit Varga underlined in an op-ed published on Monday on the Politico European news portal.
“Investors prefer to go to countries in which emphasis is placed on responsible business conduct, since they can calculate better with equal competitive conditions and can plan for the longer term”, Minister of State for Financial Policy Affairs Gábor Gion said at an international conference jointly organised by the Ministry of Finance and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
A successful cooperation with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) may contribute to increasing the international competitiveness of domestic medical and health sciences research and innovation, László Palkovics, Minister for Innovation and Technology said to MTI (Hungarian Press Agency) on Friday after a meeting in Germany with Edit Heard, Director General of EMBL.
The Government has granted HUF 600 billion to families so far under the Family Protection Action Plan – the State Secretary for Family and Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Human Capacities informed MTI (Hungarian Press Agency).
Katalin Novák said that since July more than a hundred thousand families have applied for any of the incentives under the Family Protection Action Plan.