It would be unacceptable for Hungary if the reception of a fixed number of refugees were imposed as an EU obligation, given that the country is already under significant migration pressure as it is, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér stressed.
Thanks to tax measures of past years, the tax burden on labour and that of enterprises have been reduced and tax collection has become more efficient. The tax package accompanying the 2016 Budget Bill helps create a budget of tax reductions, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at a press conference following the adoption of the tax package by the National Assembly.
In Veszprém at the kick-off event of SUPER – Series of Events Preparing Successful EU Project Proposals – Deputy State Secretary for EU Development Policy Communication at the Prime Minister’s Office Nándor Csepreghy announced that no successful development policy can be built without involving the Hungary provinces.
“Having signed an aid agreement between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Charitable Foundation for the Beregszász II. Rákóczi Ferenc College of Higher Education and the Transcarpathian Hungarian Teacher Training College, we have achieved a long-coveted feat, thereby taking yet another step towards the survival of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia”, Deputy State Secretary for International Cooperation Ádám Zoltán Kovács said during the course of his visit to Transcarpathia on 11-12 June 2015.
We should rise to the challenges Europe is facing today with brave and well-considered answers: answers of such gravity which the continent has not experienced since the end of World War II, Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said at the European Forum Wachau held in Göttweig in Austria for the twentieth time this year.
Now the Central European Initiative (CEI) must mainly focus on accelerating EU enlargement in the Western Balkan region and on the investment projects required for energy security in Eastern Europe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday at the meeting of CEI Foreign Ministers in Ohrid, Macedonia.
According to Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, the Left is conducting irresponsible, anti-Hungary propaganda when trying to hinder the Government’s efforts to protect Hungarians from the uncontrolled entry of masses of immigrants into Hungary.
Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács has announced at a press conference that the Government will do everything possible to protect the results of one of its most important measures: cuts in household utility bills.
New regulation enables some 40 percent of Hungarian banks to pay less tax, as this Government incentive leaves altogether HUF 10bn at active lenders, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga told economic daily Napi Gazdaság.
Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy Levente Magyar received Chairman of the Transcarpathia Regional Council Volodimir Chubirko and President of the Cultural Alliance of Hungarians László Brenzovich in his office.