On 6 April 2016, the European Commission credited the last instalment, EUR 1.5bn, of the loan facility that the former Hungarian government had received from the IMF and the European Commission in 2008 and 2009, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga announced. With this step, he added, the Government has reached its goal of creating economic policy independence also in terms of state financing.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has written to House Speaker László Kövér to inform him that he is proposing a policy debate on the utilisation of EU funds at Hungary’s disposal between 2007 and 2013.
It has been the result of common efforts by the two governments that Hungarian-Chinese relations in general and Hungarian-Hong-Kong relations in particular have recently seen significant improvement, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, following talks with Hong Kong’s Legislative Council President Jasper Tsang Yok-sing in Budapest.
On Tuesday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó received President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Pedro Agramunto. The two politicians agreed that not since the end of World War II has Europe had to face challenges which are as numerous and serious as it is facing now.
“Germany is Hungary’s most important partner both politically and economically”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Berlin prior to a meeting with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Sales data of government securities point to great popularity and that is a sign of the trust of households and enterprises in future outlook and the performance of the Hungarian economy, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said in Makó, a town in the south-east of Hungary, where he opened the 77th sales point of the Hungarian State Treasury.
The countries involved in handling the migration crisis adopted a joint declaration in Vienna on Friday, 1 April.
The Hungarian Government is requesting information from the US regarding the warning of the CIA as part of which Budapest was mentioned as a venue of possible terrorist attacks, the Chief Advisor of the Prime Minister for Internal Security said on Monday afternoon.
“In addition to the political risk, the migration crisis also poses a serious economic risk, because the crisis and the lack of a joint European response to it is endangering the Schengen Area, which if it were to collapse would be a ‘coup de grace’ for Europe from an economic perspective”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said.
At the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington D.C., which ended on Friday with the participant states formulating commitments and adopting a closing document, Hungary undertook to help develop cybernetic defence, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI.