In January 2018, the volume of retail sales grew by 7.8 percent year-on-year, according to both unadjusted and calendar-adjusted data. This shows an unbroken upward sales trend of 55 months. This trend in the past four-years-and-a-half has been driven, among other factors, by job growth, VAT reductions and real wage growth generated by the six-year wage agreement.
According to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary has a government which thinks that the demographic problem afflicting the country should not be solved through immigration and with migrants, but should be solved through family policy.
What the representative of Migration Aid put forward today is a pathetic attempt to explain away the situation. We have still not received a reply to the question of whether they are building a database in the transit zone, and if so, with what purpose.
Árklub Limited, which produces a range of chocolate bars under the brand name Vadász (Hunter), is building a chocolate factory in Bátonyterenye with an investment of 8.3 billion forints (EUR 26.7 million) and the help of government funding.
“The number of export capable Hungarian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has multiplied between 2014 and 2018”, Minister of State Levente Magyar from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Tuesday during the foreign trade year-opening conference of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MKIK) in Budapest.
“The Hungarian Government regards migration as a bad and dangerous process and will never agree with those who say it is good and who are organising and encouraging it”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday in Geneva before the UN Human Rights Council in defence of Hungary’s government report on migration and in reply to questions.
Hungary is the first within the CEE region to host Euroskills, the European Championship of young professionals, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at the ceremonial opening of the event in Budapest. At this year’s gathering, the best qualified 600 young professionals from 28 EU member states compete against each other with their skills in six categories.
“Thanks to security and the favourable investment environment, Hungary is also one of the world’s most attractive investment destinations in international comparison, but provincial Hungary must be further reinforced in the interests of new investments”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday in Budapest at a press conference to announce a new investment project by Ravaber.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Investment Bank Nikolay Kosov on Tuesday in Budapest, the Ministry said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
After a closed session of the European Union Consultation Body in the Hungarian parliament on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it is important for Hungary to be able to defend its own interests – both before and after its upcoming general election. It is in this spirit, he said, that Hungary will attend the upcoming European Union summit in Brussels.