At a meeting of the Roma Coordination Council in the southern Hungarian town of Kaposvár, Minister of State for Social Affairs and Inclusion Károly Czibere said that over the past two to three years the exposure to poverty of Hungarian Roma has dropped and, while the indicators are still high, the improving trend proves the success of the Government’s inclusion strategy.
Similarly to the EU, the Hungarian Government is also aiming to achieve a 75 percent employment rate up to 2020, well above today’s figure of 68 percent, Minister of State for Labour Market and Vocational Education Péter Cseresnyés stated at a conference in Kecskemét.
With regard to Hungarian fiscal and inflationary processes in its latest report the OECD expresses an opinion similar to the Government’s. However, in terms of short-term growth prospects the standpoints of the international organization and the Government do differ, Minister of State for Financial Affairs Ágnes Hornung said, commenting on the latest country report of the OECD.
Contrary to misleading information circulated by certain opposition politicians and media outlets regarding the Hungarian delegation’s recent visit to Washington, the facts are as follows: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his delegation attended the Nuclear Security Summit in response to a personal invitation from the President of the United States Barack Obama.
On Tuesday evening Prime Minister Viktor Orbán arrived on an official visit to Egypt, where he was received with military honours at Cairo airport by Prime Minister of Egypt Sherif Ismail.
“Nine Hungarian-Egyptian business agreements will be concluded during Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to Cairo, representing a total of HUF 126 billion (EUR 400 million) in business opportunities for Hungarian enterprises on the Egyptian market”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian public media following a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukri.
At a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade László Szabó said that the Southward Opening strategy announced last March has already yielded tangible results in Nigeria: as a result of the new policy, cooperation agreements have been concluded between two Nigerian and two Hungarian companies.
At a press conference on Tuesday, held after the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said that it is clear that the migration pressure in Europe will not decrease.
In Dunaújváros, where he signed an agreement with Mayor Gábor Cserna as part of the Modern Cities Programme, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that we must demonstrate that traditional industrial cities are not a thing of the past, but that they have a future, and therefore the issue of Dunaújváros is “a point of honour”.
At the 21st Meeting of the Komárom-Esztergom County Nationality Folklore Ensembles on 28 May, Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice Pál Völner said that we often hear voices from Brussels and the United States calling upon us to give up our culture – or nowadays even to admit masses of people who do not accept our values.