“The Hungarian Government will continue to fight for the security of the Hungarian people”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at a press conference in Budapest.
On Monday, 7 November, after the first working session at the meeting of the Central European Defence Cooperation (CEDC) held in Austria, Minister of Defence István Simicskó told Hungarian news agency MTI that regional cooperation has become more important in Europe, so the discussion focused on collaboration and the joint protection of external borders.
The imminent onset of another industrial revolution is requiring that the economy be switched into an innovation-led modus, Minister of State for Economic Development and Regulation István Lepsényi said in an interview to political daily Magyar Hírlap.
“Hungary has an interest in agricultural innovation that sets as its goal sustainable development and the reduction of substances that are damaging to the environment”, Minister of State Andrea Gulyás from the Ministry of Agriculture said in Kunming, China, at a summit of Chinese and Central-Eastern European Agriculture Ministers.
Consumer prices rose by 1 percent year-on-year in the month of October 2016, and thus the overall rate of inflation in the initial ten months of the year was 0.2 percent.
Today, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó received France’s Secretary of State for European Affairs Herlem Désir, who is the first high-ranked French government official to visit Budapest since 2010.
An upward retail sales trend has been in place for the 39th month in a row, Deputy State Secretary for Corporate Relations Zoltán Marczinkó said, commenting on the latest report on retail sales data by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).
Szabolcs Takács, State Secretary for EU affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office had a meeting in Budapest with his French counterpart, French Secretary of State for European Affairs Harlem Désir, regarding the most important challenges the EU is facing on 7 November 2016.
On 3 November 2016, Assistant Minister on European Affairs Amal Jadou from the Palestinian Foreign Ministry was on an official visit to Hungary at the invitation of Deputy State Secretary for Opening to the South Szilveszter Bus. The talks were conducted within the framework of the inter-ministerial political consultation agreement concluded in November 2015.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó had talks with Ministers from the Western Balkans countries on Saturday in Riga on the occasion of the China-Eastern-Central-Europe summit.