In recent years, Hungary and Kazakhstan have had steady and versatile political, economic and cultural dialogues, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, who participated at the 5th plenary session of the Kazakh-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation in Astana. In the Kazakh capital, the Minister met with Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev, Economy Minister Kuandyk Bishymbayev and Energy Minister Kanat Bozumbayev.
“Good Friday will be a public holiday”, Prime Minster Viktor Orbán announced at the commemorative session of the Hungarian Reformed Church Synod.
“This year’s pálinkas are of exceptional quality and quantities have also doubled according to figures for the first half of the year”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said at the 3rd Kunadacs Pálinka and Sausage Festival on Saturday.
“There are millions of people on the move in Africa, more and more people are setting out for Europe and there are already more than seven thousand migrants in Serbia”, the Prime Minster’s Chief Advisor on Homeland Security highlighted on M1 Hungarian television’s Friday evening current affairs program.
Deputy State Secretary Kristóf Altusz received his counterpart, the Latvian Foreign Ministry’s Deputy State Secretary for EU Affairs Inga Skujiņa on the 14th of October 2016 in Budapest.
“Hungarian agriculture experts are ready to cooperate with their Palestinian colleagues within the fields of research & development and education”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said at the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Hungarian and Palestinian agriculture ministries.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held bilateral talks with the Foreign Ministers of Malaysia, Singapore, Laos and Myanmar in Bangkok on Friday on the sidelines of a summit of European Union and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers.
“Isolation is not a good solution; the European Union should develop closer cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
After having achieved what we did it is no longer our first objective to attract investment in every possible field, as providing proper work skills and increasing productivity are gaining more and more importance since the country is nearing full employment, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at the gala evening organized to mark the 30th anniversary of the Joint Venture Association.
On Thursday, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told Hungarian public television channel M1 that over the summer, prior to the referendum campaign, the Socialists used to state that they would be stepping up against the mandatory relocation quotas.