“The editorial board of The New York Times, which is ‘hot and bothered’ about Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s ‘right-wing, nativist, nationalist politics’, is ‘so woke’ about Hungary”, the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s Minister of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács wrote in an ironic tone on Wednesday on the abouthungary.hu website in reaction to a recent article on Hungary and Viktor Orbán published in the paper.
“Saving the printed media in Hungary is in the public interest”, the Government Communication Centre (GCC) said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday with relation to the fact that the Government has declared the acquisition of a controlling share of Opus Press, Echo TV, New Wave Media Group and Magyar Idők Publisher on the part of Central European Press and Media Foundation as being of national strategic significance.
“773 thousand people have already filled out the National Consultation questionnaire on the protection of families”, the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary State Secretary Csaba Dömötör said in a statement to public media on Wednesday.
“Hungary has confirmed its previous promise to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, according to which it will be offering the majority of the capacity that will soon become available when the UN mission to Cyprus expires to NATO towards its involvement in Afghanistan and Kosovo”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced in Brussels on Wednesday in a statement to reporters.
Azbej Tristan, Minister of State at the Prime Minister’s Office, travelled to Egypt for a three-day visit between 1 and 4 December in order to express in person Hungary’s support for the North African country’s efforts in fighting terrorism and curbing migration, as well as to hand over the Hungarian state and private donations with which Hungarian donors wish to help the family members of victims of the November El Minya bus attack.
“Hungary is ensuring that EU resources are well-spent: the full budget of some 9000 billion forints (EUR 27.8bn) available for the current programming period has already been awarded to tender applicants, but we regard the proposed restructuring of the budget for the upcoming multi-annual financial framework and the planned reallocation of resources as unacceptable”, Minister of State Tamás Schanda from the Ministry for Innovation and Technology said at a forum in Esztergom on Tuesday.
As a result of the Government’s economic policy, which places tax cuts and wage increases at the forefront, economic growth in the 3rd quarter of 2018 was even higher than the preliminary forecast at 5.2%.
“The headquarters of the International Investment Bank is moving to the Hungarian capital”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga announced, reporting on the unanimous decision brought by the financial institution’s Board of Governors at its session on 4 December, which also gave the Bank’s President a mandate to conclude the related agreement.
“Hungary is standing up in support of Ukraine’s territorial unity and independence, but is monitoring Ukraine’s minority-affecting politics”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Brussels in a statement to Hungarian reporters on Tuesday.
udapest has won the right to host the 2023 World Athletics Championships, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced in Monaco on Tuesday.