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Government to invest 300 billion forints into Hungary's food industry
The Prime Minister, July 2, 2014 4:00 PM
The Government is planning to spend a total 300 billion forints (EUR 1bn) on developing Hungary's food industry in the next few years, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced on Wednesday, speaking at the opening ceremony of a plant for Stühmer. He stated that government support would help create new jobs outside Budapest.
Hungarian Prime Minister and Serbian President discuss ways to boost Hungarian-Serbian Relations
The Prime Minister, July 1, 2014 7:59 PM
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic held talks on bilateral economic, investment-related, cross-border and cultural relations in Belgrade on Tuesday.
Prime Minister addresses law enforcement officers’ commissioning ceremony
The Prime Minister, June 30, 2014 3:54 PM
Respect for the work of law enforcement officers has been restored through hard effort, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated at a commissioning ceremony of Budapest's Public Services University on Sunday.
Prime Minister visits Helmut Kohl
The Prime Minister, June 30, 2014 3:46 PM
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in his home in Ludwigshafen on Saturday afternoon.
First World War commemoration held in Ypres
The Prime Minister, June 27, 2014 9:57 AM
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán with the EU summit of heads of state and prime ministers opened with commemorations marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, in Ypres on Thursday.
Prime Minister received the Goce Delchev award
The Prime Minister, June 26, 2014 2:19 PM
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Wednesday urged the start of European Union and NATO accession talks with Macedonia after receiving an award of the United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD).
V4 prime ministers addressed conference in Budapest
The Prime Minister, June 25, 2014 11:45 AM
Energy security has been one of the priorities for Hungary’s presidency of the Visegrad Group over the past year, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday at a press conference in Budapest attended by V4 Heads of Governments, following an event marking the end of Hungary's one-year V4 Presidency.
Prime Minister Orbán met with Ehud Barak
The Prime Minister, June 24, 2014 10:14 AM
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Barak for talks in Budapest on Tuesday.
Imre Nagy reburial was a “revolution of the hearts”, Prime Minister tells German Bild
The Prime Minister, June 16, 2014 11:13 AM
In an interview for German daily Bild, Hungary's premier Viktor Orbán underlined that the reburial of martyred Prime Minister Imre Nagy 25 years ago was a “revolution of the hearts”.
Plans to reduce personal income tax by 2018
The Prime Minister, June 13, 2014 10:35 AM
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday that he wanted to see the personal income tax reduced from the current 16% to below 10% by 2018. To attain this goal, the economy should grow instead of the current 2-4% by 4 to 6%, he told public Kossuth radio, adding that the latter rate is also feasible.