On his social media account, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated Zsófia Koncz who won the parliamentary by-election in Borsod County as the candidate of Fidesz-KDNP.
The goal of the government is that general practitioners should create practice partnerships, there should be no vacant practices in Hungary, and the standard of local primary care should increase, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a video message posted on Saturday, after the meetings of the task forces in charge of the fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
Imre Kertész was a man of great intellect who cannot be pigeonholed, and so there was no question that his legacy should be built and fostered in Budapest, not in Berlin, because this is his city, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the opening of the Kertész Imre Institute in Budapest.
The coronavirus epidemic and the consequences of natural disasters affect especially harshly Christians living in crisis zone who are compelled to endure multiple humanitarian crisis situations and are often exposed to the threat of terrorism. Therefore, based on Minister of State for Helping Persecuted Christians and the Implementation of the Hungary Helps Programme Tristan Azbej’s recommendation, as part of the Hungary Helps Programme, the Hungarian government will support Christian communities in Syria, Lebanon, Congo and Nigeria with food aid donations.
Péter Szijjártó held talks on further possible investments and development projects at the Opel plant in Szentgotthárd on Friday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a post on his official Facebook page.
“Hungary is among the frontrunners in the global competition for foreign investment that is underway with relation to the redistribution of available and transforming capacities”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Friday in the Vas County town of Bük, at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Nestlé Hungária Limited’s 50-billion-forint (EUR 140 million) investment project.
The disease control coordination centre of the Visegrád Countries (V4: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia) – regarding which the V4 prime ministers agreed at a summit held in Lublin on 11 September – has started its operation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday.
“The government’s Eastern Opening policy has lived up to its promises”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in Budapest following a meeting with Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi.
Epidemiological cooperation between the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia began today with a video conference organised by the current Polish presidency of the Visegrád Group (V4), as agreed upon by the prime ministers of the V4 countries at their recent summit in Lublin in September.
The government has published the results of the national consultation.