“Through their investment projects, the enterprises that are taking part in the competitiveness-increasing funding program are already preparing for the new global economic era, as corroborated by the fact that all three companies that were presented with their funding certificates on Wednesday have undertaken to increase their capacities, apply new technology and expand their product lines, and to appear on new markets with their products”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday.
A shipment of aid from Turkey, including face visors and hand sanitizer, was presented to the Hungarian authorities in Budapest on Tuesday. The medical equipment arrived aboard three heavy goods vehicles.
“The European Union should lift its restrictions on the state funding of investment projects until the end of this year, because it is only through investments that new workplaces can be created”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on his Facebook page on Wednesday following an online conference of the Visegrád Group countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, the V4) and the Northern-Baltic-Eight (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden, the NB8).
The government will analyse the status of the pandemic also at its Wednesday meeting, a staff member of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic said at an online press conference held on Wednesday.
There is a favourable trend in elderly care homes, the number of institutions affected by infections has not increased, the Chief Medical Officer said at the Wednesday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
“Hungary is the first country in the European Union to have issued a green bond” Minister of Finance Mihály Varga announced in a video posted to his Facebook page.
The Hungarian Government has decided to join the Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund with 20 MEURs, thus becoming the third Member of the Fund. The Hungarian Export-Import Bank’s aim is to finalize its accession before the TSI Ministerial Conference in June.
The Digital Freedom Committee contacted Facebook’s regional director in a message in order to clarify whether in the procedure of the social media company’s oversight board the requirements of transparency and political neutrality are being fully observed, the Justice Minister announced on her Facebook account on Tuesday.
Mass illegal border crossings observed during the period before the coronavirus epidemic have returned to their older “active phase”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on the public service television news channel M1 on Wednesday.
The Hungarian community will commemorate the Day of National Cohesion, 4 June as part of an online programme, Minister of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.