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Hungary concludes Economic Cooperation Agreement with Pakistan

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 12, 2017 2:59 PM

Deputy State Secretary for Opening to the South Szilveszter Bus visited Pakistan, an important partner in South Asia, on 11-12 April, 2017. Besides holding the latest round of political consultations with Additional Foreign Secretary Mr. Zaheer A. Janjua, Mr. Bus met with Minister of Finance Ishaq Dar and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi. Deputy State Secretary Bus and Secretary Tariq Mahmood Pasha signed an Agreement on Economic Cooperation in the presence of Pakistan’s Minister of Finance, which enables the establishment of the Hungary-Pakistan Joint Economic Committee. While in Islamabad, Mr. Bus also met with leading figures of the political and business community at an event organised by Mr. Nasser Jaffer, head of the Karachi-based partner office of the Hungarian National Trading House.

We must do our utmost to protect the people

Government, April 12, 2017 11:20 AM

We must do our utmost to protect our citizens, and securing the borders is one of the first steps in the line of these efforts, György Bakondi said on the public service television news channel M1 on Tuesday evening.

Positions of the Government and the European Commission have converged

Ministry of Human Capacities, April 12, 2017 11:19 AM


The positions of the Hungarian Government and the European Commission regarding the amendment of the higher education legislation last week have converged, State Secretary for Education László Palkovics informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday in Brussels after he had talks with Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission. According to the State Secretary, the First Vice-President of the European Commission understood the arguments of the Hungarian Government.

Index released misleading information regarding 2018 budget

Ministry of Finance, April 12, 2017 11:17 AM

The article on the budget published by Index today contains erroneous and untrue information: the wage increases resolved by the Government earlier will continue in next year’s budget, the taxes levied on employment will decrease, and pensions will rise at a rate in excess of this year’s.

Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy asks Romania to conform to international environmental norms

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, April 12, 2017 10:55 AM

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State Levente Magyar has asked Romania to conform to international environmental norms”, the Ministry said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán entrusts negotiations on foreign universities to Kristóf Altusz

The Prime Minister, April 11, 2017 6:51 PM

Bertalan Havasi, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has appointed Kristóf Altusz, Deputy State Secretary for European and American Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as Ministerial Commissioner responsible for conducting negotiations relating to international universities.

Opportunities emerging in Hungarian-inhabited areas of Slovakia should be better exploited

The Prime Minister, April 11, 2017 5:42 PM

In Budapest on Tuesday, after meetings with the delegation of the Party of the Hungarian Community (MKP), Prime Minister and President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán said that in recent years Hungary has established exceptionally positive relations with the Slovak government and. Though the fruits of these efforts are beginning to ripen, he said, there are far more opportunities in Southern Slovakia than have been exploited so far.

The terrorist attacks confirm the need for the expanded legal border barrier

Ministry of Interior, April 11, 2017 4:15 PM

“The expanded legal border barrier came into force tow weeks ago, and the terrorist attacks in other countries in recent days have confirmed that the stricter regulations were necessary”, the Ministry of Interior’s Parliamentary State Secretary told Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.

Government does not wish to close down any university

Ministry of Human Capacities, April 11, 2017 4:09 PM

Closing down the Central European University is not an objective of the Government, there would be no reason for that. With the widely disputed amendment of the higher education legislation, the Government would merely like to find a solution to certain issues, Minister of State for Education László Palkovics said in Brussels on Tuesday.

Viktor Orbán receives Chairwoman of Vietnamese National Assembly

The Prime Minister, April 11, 2017 3:28 PM

Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has told kormany.hu that in Hungary’s Parliament Building on Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met the Chairwoman of Vietnam’s National Assembly H.E. Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân, primarily to discuss economic issues.