Hungarian exports of beef and rabbit meat to Singapore could begin soon, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas announced following talks with the head of the Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of National Development Lawrence Wong in Singapore.
We believe that the broader agricultural community and the public should also be aware of the successes of Hungary’s agriculture sector. But behind performances that are measured in tonnes, forints and percentages, there are always concrete events, whether with regard to the expansion of our cattle export market in Turkey, the decrease in poultry stocks due to the bird flu epidemic, or sunflower seed yields.
Vietnam has expressed great interest in Hungarian agriculture machinery production, in addition to which expanded cooperation is also expected within the fields of poultry farming and food safety, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas announce in Hani following talks with Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture Nguyen Xuan Cuong.
“As a result of climate change, we must also prepare for the appearance of new contagious animal diseases. These represent a challenge for our animal health, food safety and trade systems that can only be effectively handled through international cooperation”, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Deputy State Secretary for Origin Protection, Péter Gál highlighted at the session of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) European Commission on Agriculture.
At the session of the European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee on 25 September, Deputy Agriculture Minister István Nagy presented the document, which was signed by 14 EU member states in Brussels on 18 July at the initiative of Hungary and Germany, to members of the European Parliament together with his German counterpart.
“It is in all of our interests for the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to continue to provide effective tools for handling natural and economic crises, increase the competitiveness of European agriculture and stabilise the income of farmers”, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture said at the Peace Bread conference in Várna, Bulgaria.
In the latest World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund expects faster economic growth in Hungary than they did in the prior study, published in spring 2017.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Deputy State Secretary for European and American Relations, Kristóf Altusz held talks with Head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry’s Strategic and Policy Planning Unit Alexander Schallenberg in Vienna on 9 October 2017, in addition to which he also met with Ambassador Bernhard Wrabetz, the Chief Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Austrian Chancellor, the Austrian Chancellery’s chief security policy official and regional heads of department responsible for Hungarian-Austrian relations.
Hungary has historic merits in the protection of the Schengen borders and the sealing of the Balkans migration route, and will hold out to the very end in order to preserve the right to decide who may stay in the territory of the country, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday at his annual hearing in the Committee on European Affairs.
Szabolcs Takács, Minister of State for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office had talks with Vincenzo Amendola, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who is responsible for our region at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, on 10 October 2017. At the meeting the parties reviewed the EU issues which are particularly important for the two countries, such as migration, Brexit, the Western Balkans enlargement, the future of the EU and the Posted Workers Directive.