Following talks on Wednesday with President of Russia Vladimir Putin at his state residence near Moscow, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said that his country’s cooperation with Russia on the expansion of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant was the agreement and deal of the century.
“Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is to visit Budapest this spring, in addition to which the next session of the Hungarian-Russian Joint Economic Committee is also due to meet in the Hungarian capital on 22 June”, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told reporters in Novo-Ogaryovo just outside Moscow, following Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On Wednesday, following talks with President of Russia Vladimir Putin at his residence in Novo- Ogaryovo near Moscow, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it is in Hungary’s interest to see a normalisation of European-Russian relations.
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, although Werner Faymann is now saying what Hungary has said all along, he continues to insult the country.
“All of the solution strategies included in the text awaiting adoption at the EU summit on Thursday-Friday must state as their final target that the primary goal of all measures is to slow and eventually stop the process of migration”, Szabolcs Takács told reporters following a meeting of EU Affairs Ministers in Brussels on Tuesday.
According to preliminary data compiled by the National Bank of Hungary, at the end of 2015 Hungary’s state debt-to-GDP ratio was 75.5 percent, below prior estimates. Final GDP data at current prices will be published by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) in March 2016, and thus a precise debt figure will be revealed by the KSH at the beginning of April 2016, in the EDP report for the Eurostat.
In the regular annual concluding statement of Article IV consultation, the International Monetary Fund reports that Hungary’s financial vulnerability has declined substantially. The analysts of Morgan Stanley have come to the same conclusion: according to a study published yesterday, since 2008 Hungary has improved the most in terms of the bank’s Vulnerability Scoring Indicator.
On Tuesday, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi told public television channel M1 that citizens of various countries are arriving in Hungary, but there are no Syrians, Afghanis of Iraqis among them.
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjártó met with United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman in New York on Tuesday to discuss the issue of European immigration and the releasing of UN documents relating to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
“Hungarian-American economic cooperation has entered a new dimension with the formation of the American-Hungarian Business Forum”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI after attending the founding meeting of the organisation in New York.