Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, told kormany.hu that in the Parliament building on Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Sándor Demján, President of the Association of Savings Cooperatives.
Reserves in three budget estimates of the 2017 Budget total HUF 205bn, which amount guarantees that tax reductions continue, the government debt-to-GDP ratio falls further and the budget remains balanced even if external conditions worsen, Minister of State for Public Finances Péter Benő Banai told news channel M1on Tuesday.
On Friday, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson told Hungarian television channel M1 that in terrorist emergency situations there is no time for political debate: decisions need to be made.
The Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor on Homeland Security, Mr. György Bakondi, sees it as a significant step forward that Parliament voted on Monday to expand the range of asylum procedures which can be performed at the border.
In April 2016, the volume of industrial output was up by 5.3 percent, while in the initial four months of the year output rose by 1.5 percent year-on-year. The momentum that had been driving the sector after January 2010 is expected to return. Over the past six years, industrial output has gained 24.3 percent, while since the beginning of 2014 it has increased by 9.0 percent in Hungary.
Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga met with US State Department Coordinator for Sanctions Policy Daniel Fried, who on his visit was accompanied by US Ambassador Colleen Bell.
Minister of State for Security Policy and International Cooperation Dr. István Mikola gave an address at the ministerial meeting held in Vienna to mark the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
On Monday. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó described the statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, according to which some Central and Eastern European countries, including Hungary, are violating human rights, as an insult to Hungary and the Hungarian people.
György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, has said that uncontrolled masses of people arriving in Europe will trigger an unmanageable situation.
“The European Investment Bank (EIB) must have very few better partners than Hungary, because our country not only says it has an interest in Europe’s success, but is acting to achieve it”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said at an event marking the official opening of EIB’s Budapest office.