“The Government and the United Hungarian Jewish Congregation (EMIH) have concluded an agreement, in accordance with which it will be recognised as a Church in the highest category”, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén announced on Sunday at the inauguration of the new synagogue in Szentendre, near Budapest.
“They are also viewing the coming into office of the new European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen with positive expectations in Germany”, Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás said on Thursday in evaluation of his negotiations in Düsseldorf, capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Hungary could be given a post within the European Commission that is key to the future of the European Union. This is a mark of appreciation both for Hungary and for commissioner candidate László Trócsányi, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday at the press conference Governmentinfo in the context of the fact that elected President Ursula von der Leyen has nominated the Hungarian politician to the position responsible for neighbourhood and enlargement policy.
An address by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén.
Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office welcomed his audience with the text of a prayer attributed St. Francis of Assisi in which the medieval monk asked for serenity to accept the things he cannot change, for courage to change the things he can, and for wisdom to know the difference.
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén described what, above all, the Brussels bureaucracy has done with Hungary so far regarding the issue of migration as unfair, unlawful and anti-democratic.
“Japanese company Bridgestone has created 100 workplaces with its latest investment at its tyre manufacturing plant in Tatabánya, with which it has also created further supplier capacities for the automotive industry, which provides the backbone of the Hungarian economy”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at the inauguration of the facility on Tuesday.
According to the already adopted budget for next year, in 2020 the government will spend HUF 645 billion more on education than in 2010, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stated on Saturday in Pécs at the joint school year opening ceremony of Reformed Church educational institutions in the Carpathian Basin.
At the invitation of the International Judo Federation, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office paid a three-day visit to Japan.
Every pensioner will receive household utility vouchers worth HUF 9,000 by 30 September.