Deputy State Secretary for Development Policy Communication, Nándor Csepreghy stressed that the most recent strategic partnership agreements of the government concluded with mainly large enterprises so far will be expanded and aimed at the SME sector.
According to Minister of State for Government Communications András Giró-Szász, a new era has begun in the fiscal policy of the government and the agreement concluded with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) can be regarded as a symbolic step of it.
The Hungarian Amnesty International recently published a study on the situation of civil organisations in Hungary, in connection to which, the Director of the organisation Orsolya Jeney wrote a letter to Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár.
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Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács informed journalists at a press conference held on Wednesday on the government’s decision to launch a national consultation on the issue of economic immigrants.
According to Hungary’s view, the issue of terrorism cannot be separated from that of migration – Minister of State for EU Affairs of the Prime Minister’s Office told Hungarian journalists after the meeting of the EU Ministers in charge of EU Affairs.
The Government of Hungary announced zero tolerance of anti-Semitism, which is why we now already have a few thousand Israeli students in Hungary – Deputy State Secretary for Priority Social Affairs of the Prime Minister’s Office said in Debrecen.
Deputy State Secretary for Development Policy Communication, Nándor Csepreghy stressed that Hungary has arrived at a milestone: in the 2007-2013 programming period, the amount of EU funds to Hungary exceeded HUF 7000 billion and another HUF 1500 billion is expected to be disbursed by the end of this year.
The advertising tax will stay, the most important objective of the government is to maintain the system of special taxes – Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár said in an interview given to the public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió.
In its winter economic forecast the European Commission acknowledged that the Hungarian economic model works - Minister of State for Government Communications András Giró-Szász said.
Minister in Charge of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár is recommending a reduction of the advertising tax and a switch to a single rate instead of the current tiered system. The Minister did not provide information as to what the new flat rate may be, but in his statement to Hungarian news agency MTI, he cited the Austrian advertising tax on several occasions as being the highest in Europe.