Hungary is establishing a maritime port and exit for Hungarian enterprises in the Italian city of Trieste; the related agreement was signed on Friday.
“Deufol will be constructing one of Europe’s most modern packaging and logistics centres in Debrecen with funding from the Government and an investment of 7 billion forints (EUR 21.7 million), and the new facility will also serve as the German company’s regional centre in Southeast Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday evening.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed his condolences to the grieving family with relation to the death of writer, literary translator and literary historian Tamás Ungvári, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI.
The correct attitude is to advance confidence to the new leaders and leader candidates of EU institutions, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stated at his press conference held on Wednesday in Budapest.
According to Zoltán Kovács, the critical article recently published in the Guardian on the state of press freedom in Hungary, written by the left-wing British daily’s political review writer, publicist and historian Timothy Garton Ash, “simply doesn’t square with the reality of today’s Hungary”.
On Thursday, in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Bram Schot, Chairman of the Audi Board of Management had talks about Audi Hungaria’s results and plans, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
“The reorganisation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is reinforcing the freedom and independence of research”, the Minister for Innovation and Technology said in an interview for Hungarian daily Magyar Hírlap.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó opened Hungary’s westernmost permanent representation on Thursday in Vancouver. In a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Canada, Mr. Szijjártó said the opening of the consulate was justified by the economic opportunities available in the region, the technological developments there, and the need to maintain contact with Hungarians living in the area.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto and Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Marijana Nikolova on the sidelines of a conference on Ukrainian reform processes in Toronto, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
In an interview with Hungarian news channel M1 on Tuesday, after a meeting of the European Council which decided on the allocation of leadership posts for the institutions of the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that grave errors have been made in the European Union over the past few years. He said that all of these errors must be corrected.