Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics held talks on cooperation opportunities with the Minister of Transport of Baden-Württemberg and the leaders of the German state’s most important higher education institutions, the Ministry for Innovation and Technology said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
The Council for Metropolitan Public Developments formed on Saturday increases the role of the Mayor of Budapest and the metropolitan municipality in decisions related to Budapest developments, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at a press conference held after the establishment of the council.
“Austrian-owned vehicle research company AVL Hungary Limited will be constructing a research & development centre in Érd; the value of the investment is 12.5 billion forints (EUR 39 million), towards which the Government is contributing 3 billion forints (EUR 9.3 million) in non-returnable funding”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday.
“The application of European Union funding is outstanding in Hungary, even in V4 comparison: the Government has already distributed over 60 percent of the budget to the implementors of the projects, with which it is way ahead of the countries of the Visegrád Group”, the Ministry for Innovation and Technology’s Minister of State for European Union Development Policy Tamás Schanda said.
On Monday afternoon, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conducted talks with Brazil’s elected president Jair Bolsonaro by telephone, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the press.
“According to the current position, there is a realistic chance that Hungary’s targets will be realised in the United Kingdom’s European Union exit process”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared following a meeting of related ministers from the remaining EU member states in Brussels on Monday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has turned to the European Commission and the relative officials of the United Nations with relation to the anonymous bank cards being distributed to migrants and refugees, the Minister himself announced in the recess of a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels on Monday.
At the ceremony held after the signing of the agreement, Mr Orbán said in his speech that in the next decade the capital may live to see the most successful period in its history.
With the refurbishment of returned college buildings, the work he did with young people and the support he provided for scattered congregations, Transylvanian Reformed Church Bishop Géza Pap also proved that our future in the Carpathian Basin rests on the preservation of our faith and our Hungarian identity, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote to the family of the former head of the Transylvanian Reformed Church District, offering his condolences on the bishop’s death.
“The Hungarian Ambassador held talks at Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the initiative of Hungary; he was not summoned”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Communication said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Saturday.