Chief Veterinarian and the Ministry of Agriculture’s Minister of State Lajos Bognár and China’s Chief Veterinarian Zhang Zhongqui signed a cooperation agreement on closer cooperation between the two countries’ animal health authorities at a meeting in Budapest on 19 May.
“The People’s Republic of China has become Hungary’s 10th most important trade partner in recent years. Hungarian agricultural exports to China exceeded 67 million euros in 2016”, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Minister of State for Agricultural Economy György Czerván said at the official opening of the Hungarian stand of the SIAL international food industry expo held in Shanghai on 17-19 May.
In an interview with public media on Tuesday, the Press Chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade stated that “The Hungarian Act on Higher Education does not impose unattainable requirements on foreign universities”.
In Budapest’s Parliament Building on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon Louis Raphaël I Sako concluded an agreement on Government funding for the repair of homes in Tesqopa, Iraq.
“The Government does not wish to modify its immigration policy under any circumstances, because its regards the security of the people of Hungary and Europe as its priority”, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson said.
In Göd on Monday, at the opening ceremony of Samsung SDI’s electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that in 2017 reindustrialisation in Hungary will step up to a higher level.
In the first quarter of 2017, the volume of investment totalled HUF 1033bn, which shows year-on-year investment growth of more than 34 percent. This has been the highest growth rate ever registered, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, commenting on the latest data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).
“The investigation into the dual quality of foods will be extended to include 30-35 new products such as beers, soft drinks, ice creams, products used for grilling, sauces and salad dressings”, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Minister of State for Food Chain Supervision Róbert Zsigó announced on Hungarian M1 television’s Tuesday morning current affairs program.
According to the Prime Minister’s Chief Security Advisor, there are 70-80 thousand migrants stuck on the Balkan migration route and fluctuations are expected in the number of attempts to illegally cross the Hungarian border.
Hungary is consistently opposed to all attempts which may seek to loosen the existing legal framework, in particular, in respect of illegal migration, and is also opposed to all attempts which seek to re-construe the existing rules and regulations, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told the Hungarian news agency MTI after a background discussion held at the Hungarian Embassy in Vienna on Monday.