Hungary lost the twentieth century, but wants to win the twenty-first, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview published in the Monday issue of the daily Magyar Idők.
On 22 December 2018 the coastline around the Sunda Strait which lies between Java and Sumatra experienced a tsunami. 222 people lost their lives.
On the Kossuth Radio programme “Good Morning, Hungary” on Friday morning, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke about the recent anti-government demonstrations, saying that violence and acts of vandalism are permitted to no one, and the expression of political opinions must be kept distinct from vandalism.
The value-added tax (VAT) charged on ESL and UHT milk will decrease from 18% to 5% on 1 January, Minister of State for Agriculture Dr Zsolt Feldman pointed out at a press event held at a CBA supermarket in Budapest’s Corvin Plaza.
“The Government will be spending 2500 billion forints (EUR 7.7bn) on road development until 2025; the two most important goals of the improvements are to ensure that all county capitals are accessible via motorway, and all motorways reach the national border”, Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said on Thursday in Berettyóújfalu at the official inauguration of the final stretch of the M35 motorway and the first stretch of the M4 motorway.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó gave a live interview to Richard Quest in CNN’s studio in New York on 19 December.
“It is becoming increasingly worthwhile to work in Hungary; earnings increased by 11.6 percent during the first ten months of the year, which means an increase in real wages of 8.6 percent”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said.
“Early next year, the organisation of the 2021 Budapest World Hunting Exhibition will enter its realisation phase”, Government Commission for the realisation of the “One with Nature” International Hunting and Nature Exhibition and the related series of programs Zoltán Kovács said at a press discussion in Budapest on Tuesday.
The Hungarian Government expects the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which is due to commence in January, to be understanding towards the positions of member states that are against immigration and not take the debate on migration in a direction that aggravates tensions, but instead concentrate on issues on which there exists a consensus, such as the protection of Europe’s external borders”, Minister of State for European Affairs Szabolcs Takács from the Prime Minister’s Office explained in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI following talks in Bucharest with Romanian Minister without Portfolio responsible for next year’s Romanian EU Council Presidency George Ciamba.
Parliamentary State Secretary Levente Magyar from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade concluded a cooperation agreement on the protection and assistance of persecuted Christians with American government agency USAID on Wednesday in Washington.