At a press conference on Wednesday, Parliamentary Minister of State at the Ministry of Human Capacities Bence Rétvári said that the European Commission has not financed the care of unaccompanied minors arriving in Hungary last year.
The Government will summarise the rules of the preferential family housing programme in two new decrees on 3 February, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office announced at the press conference Governmentinfo 37 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
“The Macedonian-Bulgarian line of defence has to all intents and purposes been established in view of Macedonia’s decision to close its border with Greece and increase border control and the fact that Bulgaria is constructing a fence along its southern border, a significant part of which is already complete”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone following meetings with Bulgarian leaders on Thursday.
Wages in real terms grew year-on-year by 4.2 percent in the period January-November 2015, according to the flash report of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) published earlier this morning. Commenting on these data, Minister of State for the Labour Market and Vocational Training Péter Cseresnyés said that thus wages in real terms have been rising for the thirty-fifth consecutive month.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó reached an agreement on the setting up of a bilateral joint economic committee during meetings in Sofia on Thursday, and in an telephone interview with Hungarian news agency MTI said he hoped a new, direct air route would be established between Budapest and the Bulgarian capital in early 2017.
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, we are getting increasingly closer to a situation in which the southern Schengen border could be moved to Greece’s northern border.
In Parliament on Wednesday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Vice Chairman of General Electric (GE) John G. Rice discussed Hungarian developments in the field of workforce training and the Paks II enlargement project.
On Tuesday, Deputy State Secretary for EU and International Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities Gergely Prőhle received the delegation of the Damascus University, Syria.
The Paks Social Council held a meeting today with the participation of the area’s 41 mayors and MPs, Minister of Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár and Mayor of Paks János Süli, who are the body’s co-chairs, as well as the CEOs of MVM Paks Zrt. and the National Infrastructure Development Zrt. Tamás Bán and Róbert Nagy.
At a commemoration service held in Budaörs on Tuesday, on the day of remembrance for ethnic Germans rounded up and deported from Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that whenever Hungary was invaded – whether from the West or the East – suffering followed on an unimaginable scale.