In Budapest on Tuesday, after talks with Prime Minister of Croatia Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary is ready to enter into a fair deal in order to resolve the dispute over the role of the Hungarian multinational oil and gas company MOL in the Croatian energy company INA. He said that relations between Hungary and Croatia – which historically have been excellent – could be poisoned by this dispute, which should therefore be brought to an end as soon as possible.
In comparison to the previous estimate of Hungary’s economic growth, analysts in the latest OECD Economic Outlook revised their prognosis upward, from 3.8 percent to 3.9 percent for the year 2017, and from 3.4 percent to 3.6 percent for the year 2018.
“Hungary is a committed supporter of Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic integration”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed at a meeting with his Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev in Budapest’s Parliament Building on Tuesday.
Deputy State Secretary Balázs Molnár had talks with Jens Kisling, Under Secretary for Europe of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Carsten Gronbech-Jensen, Chief European Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister of Denmark in Copenhagen on 23 November. At the meeting the parties reviewed the future of the EU, migration, the future of the Schengen Area, Brexit, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the Western Balkans enlargement of the EU and social issues.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić in his office on Tuesday, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI.
“Hungary has already been profiting significantly from China’s economic growth and will be profiting even more in the upcoming period; this means more jobs and development projects”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Hungarian M1 television’s Tuesday morning current affairs program.
“During the past five years Hungary has increased its agricultural exports to China by a factor of ten, and our goal is to assure that other products are also given a chance to appear on the market”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas stressed following a meeting with the head of China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), Zhi Shuping.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas in his office in Budapest’s Parliament Building on Monday afternoon, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister Bertalan Havasi said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Bulgarian head of government Boyko Borissov held a bilateral meeting within the framework of the China-CEEC 16+1 Summit currently being held in Budapest, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister Bertalan Havasi said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
“The role played by SMEs in economic cooperation between China and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe must be increased”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday at the roundtable discussion organised within the framework of the China-CEEC 16+1 Summit currently being held in Budapest.