A Government Decree issued in November of 2016 sets down the project list with relation to Hungary’s short and mid-term railway development strategy, which from the very beginning has also included the renovation of Budapest’s Keleti (Eastern) and Nyugati (Western) railway stations. The Government has provided 2 billion forints each for the performance of preparation tasks.
“Six new border crossing stations will be opening along the Hungarian-Austrian border”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.
“In addition to investments on the part of large international companies, the predictable and significant growth of the national economy also requires competitive, Hungarian-owned industrial companies”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday to announce a new development project by MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc.
János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office announced a significant pay rise in health care in November at the press conference Governmentinfo 102 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
“Hungary isn’t an island of success, but part of Central Europe, the countries of which are ascending together”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the official inauguration of Japanese tyre manufacturer Bridgestone’s 85 billion forint (EUR 274 million) capacity-expanding investment project in Tatabánya on Thursday.
In an interview published on Thursday in the German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke about Europe’s new fault line, German-Hungarian relations, the recent Czech election and Hungarian economic achievements.
Péter Heltai, Ambassador-at-Large of the Hungary Helps Initiative held talks with Salvatore Martinez, Head of the Italian Foreign Ministry’s Observatory on Religious Minorities in the World and the Respect for Religious Freedom.
Thanks to favourable economic trends and supportive Government measures, the number of people in employment has hit a new record high of 4 million 451 thousand, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, commenting on data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).
“German enterprises play a significant role in the performance of the Hungarian economy”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed on Wednesday at an event in Budapest organised by the German Business Club (Deutscher Wirtschaftsclub, DWC).
“It is important for recent EU member states to harmonise their standpoints t ensure that farmers have access to suitable levels of funding”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas emphasised following a meeting with Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture and Food Rumen Porodzanov in Sofia.