The economy protection action plan is necessary also because in Brussels economic decisions are adopted time and again which are positively disadvantageous for the Hungarian economy.
“Japanese enterprises are playing an important role in the growth of the Hungarian economy, and amongst others have contributed to the 5.3 percent increase in Hungarian GDP realised during the first quarter of this year, with which Hungary achieved the fastest rate of growth in the European Union”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Thursday. Prior to the lunch for Japanese investors organised by the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA), Mr. Szijjártó highlighted: “Cooperation between Hungary and Japan, and between the Hungarian and Japanese people, has always been based on mutual respect, and this cooperation has perhaps never before been as stable and successful as it is today”.
Thanks to the work of Hungarian people and enterprises, and a suitable economic policy, the Hungarian economy is performing better than ever before within the fields of economic growth, increasing employment, reducing unemployment and increasing wages alike.
The robust mandate which the Fidesz-KDNP alliance received in the European parliamentary elections is a great help in European political debates, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 135.
The government has adopted an economy protection action plan consisting of 13 plus 1 points, the principal elements of which relate to the simplification of taxation, the reduction of the rates of certain taxes, and the consolidation of taxes. The government would like to uphold the Hungarian economy’s dynamic growth, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said at the press conference Governmentinfo.
“Hungary shares in South Koreas grief and is fully cooperating with it”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
On 12 December 2018, the National Assembly adopted the Act on Public Administration Courts and the Act on the Coming into Force of the Act on Public Administration Courts and Certain Transitional Regulations, which include the organisational, administrative and legal status regulations that are vital to the creation of an independent public administration court organisation. The latter piece of legislation set the date for the coming into force of the Act on Public Administration Courts as 1 January 2020.
Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér received the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador to Hungary Choe Kyoo-Sik on Thursday, the Ministry said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
“Hungary has always paid particular attention to and placed major emphasis on cooperation between the countries of Central Europe, and accordingly on good relations with our neighbours”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a joint press conference with Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Marija Pejčinović Burić in the Croatian capital on Thursday.
“The ambulance service and emergency care institutions did an excellent job”, Minister of Human Capacities Miklós Kásler said on Thursday morning after visiting people injured in the Danube ship accident being cared for at Uzsoki Hospital in Budapest.