Gross and net wages both grew by 12.8 percent year-on-year in Hungary, thanks to the increase of the minimum wage (for unskilled workers) and guaranteed minimum wage (for skilled workers), tax reductions, rising labour demand in the private sector and various public sector career models, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, commenting on the latest wage data for the month of October 2017.
Speaking at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday, Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó announced that the Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF) purchase two A319 Airbuses, adding that the planes will enter service with the HDF.
In the program of Hungarian TV channel M1 on Tuesday, Brig.-Gen. József Koller, the commander of the HDF Szolnok Helicopter Base said that after twenty years, the training of military pilots and air traffic controllers is to resume in Hungary at the National University of Public Service and the Szolnok air base.
In the Parliament Building on Wednesday, at the founding meeting of the national assembly of delegates of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that Hungary can have no future without land owned by Hungarians.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has written to former European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet on the latter’s 75th birthday.
On Wednesday Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told Hungarian television channel M1 that, during the most recent National Consultation, implementation of the Soros Plan accelerated; this is also proven, he said, by the fact that the European Parliament has started to represent its standpoint favouring migration and the migrant quota system even more openly.
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén branded Wednesday’s decision by the European Commission to trigger Article 7 against Poland – in response to controversial reforms in the country’s justice system – as unprecedented and unbelievable.
Helping Christians in Syria is Europe’s duty, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Human Capacities stated on Tuesday in Budapest in his welcome speech delivered as part of the conference series of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University on persecuted Christians.
Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister told Hungarian news agency MTI that in the Parliament Building on Tuesday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Marius Vizer, President of the International Judo Federation (IJF) held talks about Hungary’s sports development strategy regarding judo and the importance of the education of young athletes.
More than 2 million people say no to each and every point of the “Soros plan”, Csaba Dömötör, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said at his press conference held on Tuesday in Budapest, informing the press: more than 90 per cent of the questionnaires received by mail have already been processed.