“The acceptance of the technical plan in early October was a milestone with relation to the Paks Nuclear Power Plant project, and the most important next task from the perspective of construction is the preparation of the establishment licence application and its submission to the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority by 30 June of next year”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a meeting with Director General of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev in Budapest on Wednesday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with Russian Minister of Trade and Industry Denis Manturov, who is in Hungary as part of the delegation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
“Hungary has vetoed the joint statement on Ukraine by NATO ambassadors”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at the Eurasia Forum in Budapest on Wednesday. “Hungary refuses to sacrifice the Transcarpathian Hungarian community on the altar of geopolitics”, the Minister said.
“Beginning on Monday, Hungary’s most popular form of investment, the Hungarian Government Security Plus (MÁP Plus) bond will also be available in printed form at post offices in six denominations from ten thousand forints to two million forints, providing the highest rate of interest on the market. Hungarian families have already subscribed to the electronic MÁP Plus bond to a value of over 2500 billion forints (EUR 7.6 billion)”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga wrote on his Facebook page.
Hungarian tourism has moved to the next level in recent years. The government’s goal is to turn Hungary into the region’s leading tourism destination, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minster stated at a press conference held on Tuesday in Budapest.
Minister of Defence Tibor Benkő received the Republic of Italy’s Ambassador to Budapest Massimo Rustico in his office at the Ministry of Defence on Tuesday, 29 October.
The stabilisation of the Balkans region is an important economic, political and security interest for Europe.
“Hungary, as the first of the affected states to do so, has come to an agreement with the Russian party on the settlement of the May oil contamination”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday.
The government parties welcome the decision of President of the Republic János Áder to re-nominate incumbent chief prosecutor Péter Polt for the post, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
“Economic relations between Hungary and Russia are developing transparently, and in accordance with the interests of the Hungarian economy and Hungarian enterprises”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at a press conference on Tuesday in Budapest.