The Government has added some HUF 300bn to the existing fund of the Economic Development and Innovation Operative Programme (EDIOP), Minister of State for the Utilization of EU Funds Balázs Rákossy said. Thus, the fund -- avaialable until the end of 2016 -- totals more than HUF 2200bn, he stressed.
In Stuttgart on Tuesday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met former Minister President of Baden-Württemberg Erwin Teufel. In their meeting they discussed the future of European Christian democracy and crisis situations in the European Union.
During the course of the project launched for the enlargement of the Paks atomic power station, Hungary is acting in harmony with the EU’s energy policy as the European Commission itself is reckoning with the maintenance of nuclear production capacity in the future, the government commissioner responsible for maintaining the capacity of the Paks atomic power station told the Hungarian News Agency MTI on Monday.
On Friday, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister Csaba Dömötör told MTI that the Prime Minister announced that the Government of Hungary has proposed a ten-point action plan for protecting the external borders of the European Union and strengthening the Schengen system.
Antal Rogán, Head of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister, has said that the draft budget for 2017 proposes radical reductions in value added tax on the most important foodstuffs, and the further increase of tax allowances for families with two children.
“The attitude of EU institutions to the immigration crisis is disappointing because despite the absolutely obvious consequences they continue to concentrate on how to bring even more people to Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI during a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday.
On Monday György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told public television channel M1 that an agreement between the EU and Turkey is not in itself enough to solve the migration crisis, as migration from Libya to Italy has significantly increased.
On Thursday evening, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson told public television channel M1 that the Government’s long-term objective is always to reduce taxes on the “income side” of the balance sheet: to reduce the rate of personal income tax.
In Budapest on Sunday, the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of National Development said that a monument to victims of forced labour has been erected in a fitting location: László Teleki Square, in Budapest’s Józsefváros District.
“The acts of terrorism in Paris and Brussels clearly prove that terrorists have exploited the mass migration targeting the continent”, Minister of Defence István Simicskó stated on Friday, April 15 at the leading foreign policy and security forum in Central Europe, the Globsec 2016 conference held in Bratislava, Slovakia.