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Migrants might be arriving along a new route

Government, October 5, 2017 2:18 PM

György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister has told Hungarian television channel M1 that increasing numbers of people are arriving in the European Union via the Mediterranean and Romania.

Development policy is more than just placement of funds

Prime Minister’s Office, October 5, 2017 1:38 PM

The channelling of EU funds to the economy can only account for a narrow segment of development policy; the competitiveness of a country is determined by the combined competitiveness of the State, the economy and society, Nándor Csepreghy, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office stressed at the conference Portfolio Budapest Economic Forum 2017.

Viktor Orbán holds talks with President of Hungarian Boxing Association

The Prime Minister, October 5, 2017 1:11 PM

Bertalan Havasi, Press Chief of the Prime Minister has informed kormany.hu that on Thursday morning in the Parliament building, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with President of the Hungarian Boxing Association Zsolt Erdei on the future issues of the sport.

The 15th anniversary of SOLVIT

Ministry of Justice, October 5, 2017 12:33 PM

Krisztián Kecsmár, the Ministry of Justice’s State Secretary for Cooperation in European and International Justice Affairs opened the 43th SOLVIT workshop on 5 October 2017, which was hosted in Budapest.

Stability persists in Hungary’s public finances

Ministry of Finance, October 5, 2017 12:25 PM

Public finances continue to be characterized by stability in Hungary and the central government budget is capable of providing sufficient funding required for the realization of the Government’s economic and social policy goals. The deficit of the central sub sector of the state budget was HUF 1 236bn at the end of September 2017, in line with prior expectations.

Government signs comprehensive agreement with the Reformed Church

The Prime Minister, October 5, 2017 10:30 AM

Bertalan Havasi, Press Chief of the Prime Minister informed Hungarian news agency MTI that on Wednesday morning in the Hungarian Parliament Building Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and leaders of Hungary’s Reformed Church signed an agreement on the fundamental principles concerning the relationship between the Government and the Reformed Church of Hungary and the tasks that determine their cooperation.

We would rather help Romania protect its eastern border than build a fence along the Hungarian-Romanian border

The Prime Minister, October 4, 2017 5:11 PM

In an interview published in Nagyvárad/ Oradea in Wednesday’s edition of Hungarian language Transylvanian daily Bihari Napló, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that if migration pressure puts Romania to the test, Hungary would rather help Romania protect its eastern borders than erect a fence along the Hungarian-Romanian state border.

Hungary to conclude another long-term gas supply agreement with Gazprom beyond 2021

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 4, 2017 3:59 PM

Hungary will replace the contract to expire in 2021 with a new gas supply agreement with Gazprom. The Russian gas industry giant will store 900 million cubic metres of gas in Hungarian storage facilities for the winter months this year, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday in Moscow.

The Financial Times has become completely unhinged

Government spokesperson, October 4, 2017 3:16 PM

The Financial Times (FT) has slandered the Orbán Government in no fewer than four articles in the past two weeks on account of the fact that it takes a stance against György Soros’s pro-immigration activities. The British business newspaper "has become completely unhinged”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács wrote in his blog entry posted on the government website About Hungary.

Buoyant retail sales growth in August 2017

Ministry of Finance, October 4, 2017 11:31 AM

According to preliminary retail sales data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), in the month of August 2017 the volume of sales grew by 4.6 percent year-on-year, and thus the upward sales trend, in place for 50 months, has continued. Thanks to the six-year wage increase and tax cut deal, wages are set to increase even further and that signals continuing consumption growth, as well.