On Thursday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will receive Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Parliament Building, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
At a press conference held jointly with Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the Central European economic models work and the countries of the region are playing a stabilising role in the European Union; therefore they want that role to be reflected in their impact on EU affairs.
From 1 January in Hungary the rate of Value Added Tax on Internet services is the lowest in the whole of Europe after Parliament, at the Government’s initiative, reduced it in two stages, first from 27 to 18 per cent, and from 1 January 2018 to 5 per cent, the commissioner appointed by the Prime Minister to oversee the Digital Welfare Programme stressed at his press conference.
It was for the first time on December 27th, 2017 that the Hungarian flag flew in Fort Santiago, Intramuros district, Manila. The occasion was the official unveiling of a historical marker to commemorate with a Hungarian translation of the Philippine hero’s last poem, the 121st anniversary of the execution of José Rizal.
For the Hungarian economy, the year 2018 starts from a better position and with a better outlook than 2017 did, Minister Mihály Varga said at a press conference held at the Ministry for National Economy earlier today. The Hungarian economy has been growing dynamically, in a balanced and sustainable manner, he stated.
The Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister believes that opposition parties are “competing for attention”, and there is no way of knowing how they would seek to further the cause of the nation.
The Government is creating a reserve in next year’s budget for the payment of a possible EU penalty that may be imposed on account of irregularities connected to the construction of metro line 4, Magyar Közlöny (Hungarian Gazette) reports.
Hungary can start the new year as a stronger nation, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said.
The Government Spokesperson believes that the liberal world has had its day; it is impossible to make politics and to talk about reality “with pointless political correctness that leads nowhere”.
The view taken by European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos that Europe is unable to stop migration and that the installation of border control fences does not offer a solution is diametrically opposed to the opinion of both the Hungarian government and the majority of the Hungarian people. Csaba Dömötör stressed in his Wednesday interview given to the newspaper Magyar Hírlap that Hungary says no to self-surrender and Europe must make efforts to defend itself against illegal immigration.