Colleagues of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional Policy have indicated suspected cartel activity related to the M4 motorway development to the Hungarian Government, which makes the EU financing of the project impossible – Deputy State Secretary for Development Policy Communication of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday.
Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár has announced that 97% of Buda-Cash customers will get their deposits back by 31 May, and small investors with the Quaestor Group will each get back up to HUF 6 million from Hungary's Investor Protection Fund. He declared that Quaestor deceived both the people and the state.
The Minister of State for National Financial Services and Postal Affairs Lászlóné Németh announced on Thursday in Pécs that the First National Utility Company (ENKSZ) started operating in the gas sector on 1 April.
At a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday, Deputy Minister of State for Development Policy Communication Nándor Csepreghy said that ministers János Lázár and Miklós Seszták have ordered an immediate halt to construction of the section of the M4 motorway between Abony and Fegyvernek.
At the official opening on Tuesday of a “government window” serving the needs of the public in Sárbogárd, Fejér County, the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office said that Hungarian public administration is undergoing the biggest transformation it has seen in the last 150 years; as a result of this, by late autumn 2015 citizens will be able to deal with at least 300 administrative matters at 278 government windows in almost 200 districts.
On public television on Monday, Minister of State Lászlóné Németh announced that, having received the necessary operating permit, the First National Utility Company (ENKSZ) may start operating in the gas sector on 1 April.
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén and Deputy Speaker of the Parliament János Latorcai are on an official visit to Vietnam between 27 March and 1 April, to participate in the 132nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Hanoi.
Quaestor CEO Csaba Tarsoly wrote a letter to the Prime Minister informing him of the investment house’s problems on 9 March – at the same time as he briefed the central bank on the issue – according to the Minister of State for Government Communication in an interview with ATV Television’s “Szabad szemmel” programme broadcast on Saturday evening.
The Hungarian Government pays close attention to the situation of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia, and makes every effort to ensure that they feel safe in their native land. This was among the topics of the meeting of László Zubánics, President of the Hungarian Democratic Alliance in Ukraine and Árpád János Potápi, State Secretary for National Policy.
State Secretary for National Policy Árpád János Potápi received the leaders of the Democratic Community of Hungarians in Croatia (HMDK), President Sándor Jakab and Executive Chair Róbert Jankovics in his office on Thursday.