President János Áder formally appointed the ministers of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's third government on Friday. Later, Parliament held a session at which Prime Minister Orbán addressed the new cabinet before their oath-taking ceremony.
Life imprisonment without eligibility for parole will definitely remain a part of Hungarian law, the candidate for justice minister in Hungary's new government said at a parliamentary hearing on 3 June 2014. Mr Trócsányi emphasized later at a hearing of Parliament's European affairs committee that he would represent the principle of constitutional identity as against the European Union's "legislation in stealth" as Hungary has not relinquished its sovereignty in the EU either.
The new Hungarian Government was formed on 6 June 2014. Accordingly, the Government’s website, kormany.hu will also be renewed. News, press releases, photos, videos and information of public interest remains available at this site. However, until the ministers of state are nominated, only news at ministerial level will be uploaded at the ministries’ sections.
Last year, Kazakhstan was the third largest trading partner of Hungary within the Commonwealth of Independent States, with a total trade volume exceeding USD 261 million and up by 6.5 percent compared to last year. Within the above amount, the value of Hungarian exports was USD 210 million, signalling an increase of 34.3 percent year-on-year, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at the press conference following the fourth session of the Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) on Hungarian-Kazakh Economic Cooperation.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is set to represent Hungary at the inauguration ceremony of Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko in Kiev on Saturday.
Hungary's new national assembly re-elected Viktor Orbán as prime minister on Saturday, with 130 votes in favour and 57 against, after which he took the oath of office, and addressed Parliament.
We have seen signs of the withdrawal of Russian troops, but there are still tens of thousands of them along the Ukrainian borders, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a doorstep statement to the press in Brussels on Tuesday, June 3, in advance of the meeting of the Defence Ministers of member states. The two-day meeting of NATO Defence Ministers, which started on Tuesday in Brussels, is focusing on the situation in Ukraine.
Hungarian foreign policy can only be successful if the goals of the nation are an integral part of it, Tibor Navracsics, the nominee for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday.
In Q1 2014, Hungary’s GDP increased by 3.5 percent year-on-year. Quarter-on-quarter, the economy expanded by 1.1 percent. In international comparison, Hungary’s quarter-on-quarter growth was – along with Poland’s – the highest within the European Union. Final data are in line with preliminary statistics.
In Q1 2014, the volume of investment increased by 22.6 percent year-on-year. Whereas the 15 percent growth in the previous quarter was a ten-year record high, current data show an unprecedented increase. As all major economic sectors have contributed to the steady improvement which has been observed in the past four quarters, it can be concluded that Hungarian economic growth has been placed on a sound footing.