In the European Economic Forecast – Winter 2017, the European Commission significantly revised its former growth estimate of 2.6 percent upward, to 3.5 percent of GDO, for Hungary. The Commission predicts the rate of GDP growth to be 3.2 percent in 2018. This modification also signals that the 6-year wage agreement concluded at the end of last year may boost economic expansion.
Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazkeas held bilateral talks with EU Commissioner for Heath and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis during his official visit to Budapest.
János Lázár, the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office described the case of the metro line 4 project as a textbook example of fraud on the basis of the report of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) on the case.
The competitiveness of the Hungarian economy cannot be improved without the sector of agriculture, János Lázár stated in Hódmezővásárhely.
In the evaluation of the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, after trailing at the back, Hungary has broken away from the pack and is now a leader in the management of EU funds, both as regards the publication of calls for proposals and the conclusion of contracts, and the disbursement of funds.
With the reinforcement of the legal border closure, the Government is taking another measure that serves to enhance the security of the Hungarian and European people as only controlled persons eligible for the status of refugee or protected person will be able to enter the territory of Hungary, and consequently of the European Union, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said in the Sunday evening programme of the public service television news channel M1.
The Government of Hungary condemns the missile test carried out by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 12 February in the strongest terms.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán believes that the task for 2017 is for Hungarians to defend themselves against five major attacks. In his annual state of the nation address on Friday, Mr. Orbán said that “This will require a new national policy”.
The Ministry for National Economy has informed Hungarian news agency MTI that Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga and Minister of Justice László Trócsányi held talks with Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) Giovanni Kessler on his organisation’s findings on the Budapest Metro Line 4 corruption case and related irregularities.
“It is also important to Hungary that the series of negotiations on the termination of Great Britain’s membership of the European Union comes to a close with a package of agreements that are not a punishment, but are practical and acceptable to all parties, to which end Great Britain can count on the support of the Hungarian Government”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary Laszlo Szabó said on Thursday in London.