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Competitiveness proposals to be put before the Cabinet

Ministry of Finance, November 30, 2018 10:05 AM

“Today, the National Competitiveness Council (NCC) approved the main recommendations for the improvement of competitiveness, which it will be putting before the Cabinet”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga announced at a press conference following the body’s session today.

Government Spokesperson rejects Handelsblatt’s claims that the Government’s attacks against Soros are anti-Semitic

Government spokesperson, November 30, 2018 9:55 AM

On Saturday, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács rejected claims by German paper Handelsblatt that the Hungarian Government’s attacks against George Soros are anti-Semitic; according the Spokesperson’s letter to the paper, which it did not publish, the trouble with Soros and his network is that their pro-immigration activities disregard the will of the people and are aimed against democratically elected governments.

EP’s pro-immigration majority proved repeatedly that they only care about migrants

Government spokesperson, November 29, 2018 7:45 PM

The European Parliament’s pro-immigration majority proved repeatedly that they only care about migrants. They attack everyone who protects their borders, the Minister of State for International Communication at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister posted on his Facebook account on Thursday, in response to the development that the EP called upon Hungary to extradite Macedonia’s former prime minister Nikola Gruevski.

Central European region will continue to remain engine of European growth

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, November 29, 2018 7:40 PM

The Central European region will continue to remain the engine of European growth, and this gives us self-confidence in the debate on the future of Europe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Pozsony, at a press conference held after the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Visegrád Four (Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland) on Thursday.

Complicated negotiations on the EU budget in prospect

The Prime Minister, November 29, 2018 2:44 PM

Arriving at the summit of the Friends of Cohesion group in Bratislava/Pozsony, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that there will be complicated negotiations on the next seven-year EU budget, but an agreement will be reached.

Investments have grown by more than twenty per cent

Ministry of Finance, November 29, 2018 1:07 PM

It is partly thanks to the measures recently implemented with a view to boosting investments, such as the single-digit corporation tax, the reduced burdens of employers and the effective utilisation of development funds, that in the first three-quarters of the year investments worth more than HUF 5,300 billion have been implemented in Hungary, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga announced evaluating the latest investment data.

South Korean Hanon Systems to bring investments worth HUF 36.7 billion to Hungary

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, November 29, 2018 12:46 PM

The South Korean-owned automotive components supplier Hanon Systems Hungary Kft. will bring new investments totalling HUF 36.7 billion to Székesfehérvár, Pécs and Rétság, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference held on Thursday in Budapest.

New vote on migrant visas in EP is unacceptable

Prime Minister’s Office, November 28, 2018 7:46 PM

The Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office finds it unacceptable that the European Parliament will repeatedly vote on the migrant (humanitarian) visa. In light of the fact that the proposal has already been rejected once before, this procedure is anti-democratic, Gergely Gulyás said at the press conference Governmentinfo.

Hungary will not be conforming to a single point of the Global Compact for Migration

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, November 28, 2018 6:26 PM

“Hungary will not be conforming to a single point of the Global Compact for Migration”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a meeting with Secretary General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) António Vitorino in Geneva on Wednesday.

The Hungary Helps Programme is funding the hospital treatment of victims of the war in Syria

Prime Minister’s Office, November 28, 2018 5:44 PM

The Government of Hungary is supporting the Open Hospitals Syrian humanitarian initiative because it agrees that communities and families in need should be assisted in the vicinity of their homeland, and with enabling these communities to remain in place and assisting those who have fled to return home.