The value of investment in the first three quarters of the year totalled HUF 4 144bn in Hungary, which figure shows an increase of 22.6 percent year-on-year, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, commenting on the latest investment data published by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).
Deputy Prime Minister for national Policy Zsolt Semjén received President of the Ukrainian World Congress Eugene Czolij and the organisation’s representative in Brussels Maryna Laroshevych in the Parliament Building during their recent visit to Budapest. The meeting was also attended by the National Assembly’s Ukrainian minority ombudsman Jaroszlav Hartyányi, head of the press Office of the Prime Minister Bertalan Havasi informed Hungarian news agency MTI.
In Budapest on Monday, at the opening of the economic and trade forum between China and sixteen Central and Eastern European countries, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that Europe’s most competitive investment environment has come into being in Central and Eastern Europe.
At a press conference after the economic and trade forum of China and sixteen Central and Eastern European countries, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the strengthening of the Chinese economy presents great opportunities for the countries of Central Europe.
“Hungary will not sacrifice the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia on the altar of world politics and will stand up to all attempts to place the Hungarian Government’s standpoint on Ukraine’s European aspiration into a mistaken geopolitical context”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Brussels of Friday following a summit of EU and Eastern Partnership countries’ heads of state and government.
“Hungary supports the European integration of Kosovo, and Pristina’s efforts to be afforded visa-free travel and membership of international organisations”, Minister of Justice László Trócsányi stressed in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI following his official visit to Kosovo.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has expressed his condolences to his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry following the terrorist attack on the Sinai Peninsula.
“The European Union must give continuous positive feedback to the countries of the Eastern Partnership in view of the fact that cooperation with these countries is in the political, economic, energy-related and security interests of the Community”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at a summit of EU and Eastern Partnership leaders in Brussels on Friday.
“The Government condemns the terrorist attack in Egypt on Friday, which claimed at least 200 lives and injured over a hundred people, in the strongest possible terms”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Hungarian news agency MTI.
The Government condemns the act of terrorism committed in the city of Al-Arish on 24 November 2017, which according to the information available has claimed at least 200 lives and injured 125 people, in the strongest possible terms. We hereby express our condolences to the families of the victims and wish the injured a speedy recovery.