On Thursday, the Court of Justice of the European Union passed a judgment in the Hungary vs. European Commission case, granting Hungary’s appeal against the decision of the Commission and repealing the decision which suspended the relevant taxation measure, Justice Minister Judit Varga told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
Also in the second phase of the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, maintaining a state of disease control preparedness is justified, a staff member of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic said at an online press conference held on Thursday.
The epidemic has arrived at a rest point which is confirmed by the fact that in the past twenty-four hours there have been no significant changes in the epidemic data, the Chief Medical Officer said at the Thursday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
“Next year’s budget will be more transparent”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga declared in an interview for weekly business magazine Figyelő.
“Gas could begin arriving in Hungary from the direction of Serbia in October 2021, perhaps in larger quantities than originally planned”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced in Budapest on Thursday after receiving Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Aleksandar Antić.
The epidemic crisis took its toll on the Hungarian economy, but there is a good chance that it might be able to produce one of Europe’s most stable results, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the Thursday online ‘Governmentinfo’ press conference.
The answers to the questions of the latest national consultation can be returned via the Internet or by mail by 15 August, the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said on the public service television news channel M1 on Thursday.
At the invitation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will pay a visit to Belarus on Friday, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
The electronic monitoring of compulsory home quarantine is working well, there is also interest from abroad in the Hungarian-developed application, Minister of State for International Communication and Relations-head of the communications task force Zoltán Kovács, head of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic Tibor Lakatos and Máté Kiss-György, Managing Director of Asura Technologies Kft., the company that developed the application told journalists at a background discussion held on Wednesday.
The first four questions of the national consultation to start shortly are about further steps in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic, the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister stated in a video message posted on the Facebook account of the Government of Hungary on Wednesday.