The Hungarian Government and Tungsram have concluded a strategic partnership agreement; the agreement was signed on Monday in Budapest by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and President and CEO of Tungsram Jörg Bauer.
“The restructuring of the tax structure conforms to the country’s expectation that while reducing the tax burdens on capital- and work-related income, burdens should increase in the direction of VAT-type taxes”, the Ministry of Finance’s Minister of Sate for Taxation Norbert Izer said in an interview for leading economic daily Világgazdaság.
“This year, pensions will be increasing by 2.7 percent, the increased pensions will be arriving on bank accounts on 11 January and the post office will begin deliveries on 16 January; pensions will be increasing by an annual 42 thousand forints in the case of an average pension”, Bence Rétvári said.
According to the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s State Secretary for International Communications and Relations, the European People’s Party’s candidate for the post of European Commission President, Manfred Weber, is wrong: the CEU has not left Hungary.
“In cooperation with the Soros network, the pro-immigration forces will be stepping up their attacks against Hungary in 2019”, Government Spokesperson István Hollik declared in a video uploaded to the Government’s Facebook page on Friday.
According to the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, the level of organisation and orientation of migration has not diminished; those organising migration and the people smugglers are continuously monitoring the measures introduced by countries.
Following a submission by Minister of Human Capacities Prof Dr. Miklós Kásler, the Government adopted Government Decree 206/2018 (XI.10) on the establishment of the Institute for Research on the Hungarian Peoples and the amendment of related legislation.
“Last year, Hungary set new foreign trade records. Last year was the most successful year of all time from the perspective of investment promotion; never before have so many and such high value investments been made in Hungary”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.
As part of his working visit to Brazil, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had bilateral talks with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
“Soldiers will be receiving a larger pay increase than originally planned”, the Ministry of Defence’s Parliamentary State Secretary announced at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday.