“We must be ready to give appropriate responses to all challenges”, Minister of Defence Csaba Hende said at the Faculty of Military Science and Officer Training of the National University of Public Service, where 119 graduates received their diplomas on Monday.
Sziget, VOLT, Balaton Sound and Nagy Balaton festivals are set to receive further 415 million HUF support from the Government, Éva Kurucz Government Spokesperson has announced. She stated that 10-12% of annual tourism in Hungary is generated by such festivals, resulting in 100 billion forints of income for the economy.
The Foreign Ministry resolutely denied on Friday reports about Hungary supplying military technology to Ukraine.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that the exceptional second-quarter 3.9% economic growth data published on Thursday is down to the fact that Hungarians want to work. So what is behind the performance of the Hungarian economy is not a one-off budget manoeuvre, not some selling of state assets, not a credit transaction and certainly not a new loan, but continuously expanding production, increasing labour and improving work quality, he added.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a Kossuth radio interview on Friday that the economic sanctions against Russia are contrary to Hungary's national interest. He pointed out that he agreed with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico that the sanctions imposed by the West "hurt us more than they do Russia".
The state secretariat for cultural diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade plans a series of international thematic events to coincide with the Ignac Semmelweis memorial year announced by UNESCO for 2015, marking the 150th anniversary of his death, the ministry said on Thursday.
The Ministry of Agriculture held a Hungaricum Day at the Sziget Festival’s “Civil Sziget” in Budapest on Thursday to promote Hungarian national treasures among young people from at home and abroad, the Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Agricultural Development and Hungaricums said.
Minister János Lázár has asked that a meeting of the Roundtable of Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) be convened in September and has requested the cooperation of President of Mazsihisz András Heisler in a letter.
Hungary has evoked the admiration of the world in 1989; at the time Hungarian people had leaders who have had the courage to take risks and their decisions meant the only glimmer of hope to refugees, said father Imre Kozma, founding president of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service at the opening of the event series called ‘Day of Welcoming’ in Budapest this Thursday.
Hungary's Ministry of Interior has launched a campaign against human trafficking in cooperation with five embassies, Krisztina Berta, Deputy State Secretary for EU and International affairs and national coordinator of the anti-human trafficking campaign announced on Wednesday.