The government’s goal is for Hungary to be ranked among the European Union’s top five most liveable and competitive countries by 2030 so that Hungarian young people can become winners of the future, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology stressed at a press conference held on Wednesday in Győr which will host the final of the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) global robotics and programming competition between 8 and 10 November.
The November pension premium, which every person receiving pension and pension-like services is eligible for, some 2.5 million people in total, will be higher than ever before, the Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Human Capacities said at a press conference held on Wednesday in Budapest.
“The automotive industry is the ‘backbone’ of the Hungarian economy; there are over 175 thousand people working in the sector”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday at the official inauguration of high-tech Japanese lithium battery manufacturer GS Yuasa’s new production hall in Miskolc.
“All of Hungary’s gas storage facilities are full, which not only assures domestic supply over the winter, but means that the Hungarian state will also be able to profit from renting out storage capacity”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in a statement to Hungarian news agency from Moscow on Wednesday.
“While in 2010, Hungarian families and the state were both being crushed under the pressure of debt and economic uncertainty, the country is now on a growth trajectory”, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s State Secretary for Information and the International Representation of Hungary Tamás Menczer said on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday morning current affairs program.
“Greece is in increasing trouble, and over 30 thousand asylum seekers are now waiting for the opportunity to travel on towards Western Europe on Lesbos and the neighbouring Greek islands”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday morning current affairs program.
The new Medial Centre and wrestling hall of the Diósgyőr Sport Association, which was founded in Miskolc in 1910, have been completed; the complex was officially inaugurated on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent a message to former US President Jimmy Carter on the occasion of his 95th birthday, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
Hungary does not accept any quotas relating to the distribution of migrants, and is ready to cooperate with Italy in the fight against people smuggling, border protection and the transportation of illegal immigrants back to their home countries, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on the public service television news channel M1 on Friday evening.
In the past nine years, the number of women in employment in Hungary has increased by three hundred thousand, and this increase is due to the fact that since 2010 significant changes have occurred in the country’s employment policy, the Minister of State for Employment Policy and Corporate Relations of the Ministry of Finance said on Monday in Kapuvár.