The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade regrets to inform that Graaf Dénes Sámuel Imre Tihamér Vilmos Festetics de Tolna, the Honorary Consul of Hungary in Haarlem (the Netherlands) passed away in Aerdenhout, the Netherlands on 16 May 2015.
The Prime Minister’s Office welcomes the Solidarity Sabbath initiative called to life by the Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice in an attempt to underscore the importance of the fight against anti-Semitism, incitement of hatred and exclusion, as well as the importance of tolerance.
Economic growth has been the driver of wage increases, Minister of State for Vocational Training and the Labour Market Sándor Czomba told public news channel M1 commenting on the latest wage data showing that wages in real terms were up by 4.1 percent in the first quarter of 2015.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told national TV channel M1 on Thursday that Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia have agreed on regional gas supply cooperation. In terms of the agreement, the countries will connect their pipeline networks and make them suitable for reverse-flow supplies.
At the ministerial conference held in The Hague on 20-21 May to adopt the International Energy Charter, Hungary was represented by Minister of State for Energy Affairs of the Ministry of National Development András Aradszki and Minister of State for Security Policy and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade István Mikola as members of the Hungarian delegation.
The flash report of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) published earlier today shows that in the initial three months of the year wages in real terms were up by 5.2 percent year-on-year within the national economy. Thus, wages in real terms have been on the rise for the twenty-seventh month, while the number of jobs at private sector enterprises with at least five employees increased by 59 thousand compared to March 2014.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade welcomed the appreciative words of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State about the two countries’ 25-year-old alliance relationship at the congressional hearing held in Washington on 19 May.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will travel to the Latvian capital, Riga on Thursday, where he will take part in the European Union’s Eastern Partnership summit.
At a press conference in Strasbourg following a European Parliament (EP) debate on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that every value can and must be open to debate.
Europe has not had to face as many challenges as today since the Second World War, underlined Péter Szijjártó in Brussels on Tuesday at the meeting of EU Foreign Ministers organised by Belgium fulfilling the EU Council rotating presidency.