Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister told kormany.hu that following their meeting in Paris in April, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Secretary-General of the OECD Ángel Gurría held talks in Budapest on Friday.
The reduction of workers employed in the public sector would enhance the country’s competitiveness, János Lázár stressed, who takes the view that the number of people working in the public sector is extremely high today.
Szabolcs Takács, State Secretary for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office received the State Secretary for EU affairs of Slovakia which will hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union as of 1 July.
János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at his press conference held in Budapest on Thursday: Brussels’ proposition is anti-democratic because it seeks to take away the Member States’ right to sovereignty. In other words, the EU wants to tell us who should live in the Member States.
“Turkey remains at the focus of Hungarian foreign policy and foreign trade strategy and is an important partner to Hungary and the European Union”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed at a press conference following a meeting of the Hungarian-Turkish Joint Economic Committee on Thursday in Budapest. The Turkish delegation was led by Minister of Health Mehmet Müezzinoğlu.
The Holocaust is one of the greatest tragedies of not only the Jewish community in Hungary, but of the history of the whole of Hungarian society, Csaba Latorcai, Deputy State Secretary for Priority Social Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office said at the commemoration held on Thursday in the former Auschwitz death camp.
Dr Csaba Latorcai attended the 2016 event of the International March of the Living in Poland.
In accordance with the MoU concluded by the Government, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Erste Bank AG, the Government has decided to purchase a 15 percent stake in Erste Bank Hungary Ltd, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga announced earlier today. Key terms and conditions have already been laid down, and as soon as there is consensus on the remainder of details, a contract is expected to be signed up to the middle of June, he added.
On Wednesday György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told public television channel M1 that in the long term the plan presented that day by the European Commission could have grave political, economic and social consequences. The societal composition of European countries and nations could be transformed, leaving aside the security aspects, Mr. Bakondi stressed.
The domestic defence sector, one of the most profitable industrial branches, may significantly bolster the national economy, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at a forum on the export control of defence industry products organized by the Hungarian Trade Licensing Office.