“Following a record year last year, the number of foreign investments in Hungary made with the support of the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) has again increased significantly during the first half of this year; the total value of these new investments exceeds 1.33 billion euros”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy Levente Magyar said at a press conference in Budapest on Friday.
“Hungary is performing outstandingly with regard to defence spending, which has increased by 20 percent since the NATO summit in Newport in 2014, and this is fourth largest increase in the defence budget among the EU’s Member States”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI in Warsaw, where the Minister is attending a two-day NATO summit.
“The Government is expecting the reorganisation of government tasks to result in greater speed and efficiency”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said on Hungarian M1 television’s current affairs program on Thursday.
“Yet another Indian automobile industry company is bringing its factory to Hungary, and a Hungarian manufacturer of lightweight houses will be establishing a joint venture company in India”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone following several meeting in New Delhi.
In June 2016, consumer prices edged down by 0.2 percent year-on-year. Stable prices help preserve the value of wages and pension benefits, and these boost consumption and economic growth.
“Brussels’ misguided immigration policy is endangering the security and unity of Europe”, Károly Kontrát declared following a meeting of European Union Interior Ministers in Bratislava.
Based on the Prime Minister’s decision, the work of the Government will be divided into two government cabinets in the future: an economic cabinet and a strategic cabinet, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 57 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
Maintaining the unity of the EU is equally imperative for Hungary and Norway, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Budapest after his talks with his Norwegian counterpart.
There is further statistical evidence that immigration does not in the least serve as a solution to Europe’s labour market problems, and would in actual fact only aggravate them, the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister told the Hungarian News Agency MTI on Thursday.
Minister of Feign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó regards Austria’s procedure at the Austrian-Hungarian border as unnecessary.