The recent expansion of the primary labour market has continued during the winter: the number of people working in a private sector job has increased by 87 thousand year-on-year, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, commenting on the latest labour market data.
On 23 February Deputy State Secretary Balázs Molnár received British Minister for International Trade Greg Hands.
“What is at stake at the April elections is whether Hungary will have a government that fights for Hungarian interests or gives up the fight”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Geneva, where he is attending the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
Malaysia’s Higher Education Minister Dato’ Seri Idris bin Jusoh and on behalf of the Ministry of Human Capacities Ambassador Attila Káli signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Higher Education between the two countries in Kuala Lumpur on 23 February 2018. As part of education cooperation between the two countries, Hungary offers 40 full scholarships to Malaysian students to attend BA, MA and PhD programmes in Hungarian institutions of higher education.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Budapest is to be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade due to the attack on the Ungvár (Uzhhorod) central office of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association (KMKSZ), the Minister said on the public service television news channel M1 on Tuesday.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has become unfit and unworthy of the fulfilment of his responsibilities and of his position and must therefore resign with immediate effect, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on the Tuesday programme of the public service television news channel M1.
The European Union must engage in a balanced policy regarding the Middle East conflict, and should therefore convene the next meeting of the EU-Israeli Association Council within the shortest possible time, Levente Magyar, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said at the Brussels meeting of EU Foreign Ministers held on Monday.
According to the Ministry of Human Capacities’ Parliamentary State Secretary, we must recollect many kinds of victims on the Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism.
During his speech at the 37th session of the UN’s Human Rights Council on Monday in Geneva, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid bin Ra'ad Al-Hussein, to immediately resign for accusing Prime Minister of Viktor Orbán of racism and xenophobia.
“The Visegrád Group continues to support the euro-Atlantic integration of the Western Balkans and is providing its unconditional support to the current Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the upcoming Austrian Presidency in the interest of accelerating this process”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed in Banja Luka, Bosnia, where he and the relative ministers of the Western Balkan countries gave joint speeches at a conference on the region’s EU enlargement.