Tax reductions are to leave HUF 260bn at families, households and enterprises, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, after the National Assembly had adopted the tax package accompanying the 2018 Budget.
Earlier today, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga met with Indiana Governor Eric J. Holcomb and Indiana Secretary of Commerce Jim Schellinger to discuss economic cooperation options. At the event, the Minister said Hungary was working on bringing even more investment-seeking Indiana companies here, thus further bolstering bilateral economic relations.
The Government refutes Martin Schulz’s statement in the strongest possible terms as the chancellor candidate of the German social democrats “attempts to embroil Hungary in the German internal political campaign”, and evidently “seeks to use to his political advantage” Hungary’s approach to the issue of migration which widely departs from his own, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
“There are several common points between the State of Indiana and Hungary”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary, László Szabó said on Tuesday in Budapest at the Hungary-Indiana business forum, after which he told the press that there are already several investors from Indiana present in Hungary and he hopes bilateral trade flow will be successfully increased several fold in future.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi has informed Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with the directors of Rosatom in Budapest’s Parliament Building on Wednesday.
“It is pure blackmail on the part of the European Commission that it is launching infringement proceedings against member states that are unwilling to implement the decision to introduce a quota for the mandatory resettlement of illegal immigrants. Hungary will resist this and will not allow entry to a single illegal immigrant”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday morning current affairs program.
“The decision to increase Hungary’s contribution to the fight against the Islamic State terrorist organisation is an important decision with regard to the security of both the Hungarian people and Europe”, the Ministry of Defence’s Parliamentary State Secretary said.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi has said that in Budapest’s Parliament Building on Wednesday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Governor of the State of Indiana Eric Holcomb met to discuss the further expansion of economic relations, and Hungary’s improved business environment.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi has told Hungarian news agency MTI that on Tuesday afternoon in the Parliament Building Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President of Austria Alexander van der Bellen held talks on economic affairs and the stability of the Western Balkan region.
Parliament passed the law on the transparency of organisations funded from abroad on Tuesday.