“The Hungarian Government regards the fact that there is no tangible change in the European Union’s migration policy as a danger”, the Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor on Homeland Security, György Bakondi said at a press conference.
The guaranteed minimum wage may increase by 25 percent next year. In 2018, the minimum wage and the guaranteed minimum wage may rise by 8 percent and 12 percent, respectively, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said on Monday, following a session of the Standing Consultation Forum of the Private Sector and the Government.
Partnerships may expand concerning a number of fields between Hungary and Romania in coming years, Deputy State Secretary for International Economic Relations Antal Nikoletti said at the Hungarian-Romanian business forum on 11 November 2016, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
“According to Hungary, people must be given help and encouragement to enable them to remain at home, while according to Italy and others they should be encouraged to come to Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in an interview aired on Italian RAI public television on Friday evening.
“The European Union should primarily be defending its borders and instead of inviting people to Europe it should be providing assistance to people who are fleeing war in the vicinity of humanitarian crisis zones”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in an interview published in Saturday’s edition of Italian economic daily IlSole24Ore.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commissioner for the Euro and Social Dialogue, met in the Parliament building on Friday morning. Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has said that in their meeting the two men agreed that over the last couple of years the Hungarian economic and financial situation has significantly stabilised.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expects Hungarian-American political cooperation to change completely, as a result of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election.
The achievements, development prospects and the Government’s supportive economic policy were the factors that have created a stable basis upon which domestic and foreign enterprises are building their success, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, at the opening ceremony of a recently completed development project by Lenovo Hungary and Flex Hungary. The project is expected to create 250 new jobs.
Speaking in the Parliament Building on Thursday, at a church conference entitled “St. Martin and Europe”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán described St. Martin of Tours as “the patron saint of the social market economy”. Mr. Orbán said that not only was the saint’s heart in the right place, but he also possessed common sense: according to legend, when he was a soldier he once cut his cloak into two and gave half to a beggar, thus ensuring that both of them would be protected from the extreme cold.
“We hope it will be easier to reason with the new President and it will become possible to free bilateral relations from the burden of unnecessary and irrelevant matters”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs program.