Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held bilateral talks with his Iraqi, Turkish, Malaysian, Slovenian, Saudi Arabian and Australian counterparts in Kuwait on Tuesday.
Stable and rapid economic growth shows that the economy policy based on wage hikes and tax cuts has been bearing fruits, and thus the standard of living of Hungarians has improved substantially, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, commenting on the latest GDP flash report of 2017 released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with the members of the Permanent Council of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (MKPK) on Tuesday, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi informed Hungarian news agency MTI.
“The Government will be making the ‘Stop Soros’ legislative package significantly stricter, and will be submitting it to Parliament in this form on Tuesday”, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson announced at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday.
The volume of industrial output rose by 4.8 percent last year in Hungary, and thus the sector’s output has risen by some 35 percent since January 2010. Thanks to the Government’s re-industrialization programme, the support of capacity-expansion projects and other projects enabled by a lower corporate income tax rate, output growth is expected to continue this year.
“Protecting its external borders is a more important interest and task than ever before for Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
The implementation of every one of those elements of the Modern Cities Programme will start by the end of April on which the government and the municipalities concerned have reached an agreement, the minister without portfolio for the development of county-ranked cities said on Monday in Kaposvár.
The date and method of the publication of the OLAF (European Anti-Fraud Office) report on the case of Elios Innovatív Zrt. are part of a political campaign, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday in Hódmezővásárhely.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi has told Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will make his annual state of the nation address on 18 February at 3 PM at the Royal Castle Garden Bazaar in Budapest.
Hungary has always insisted that the regulations of the European Union must be equally observed by every Member State, and there is no room for double standards, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said after he met with journalists, Members of Parliament and members of the Hungarian community in the Netherlands.