In an address given at a Saint Thomas Becket Memorial Day conference in Esztergom on Tuesday, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said that what is at stake regarding the planned distribution of migrants across Europe is preservation of national sovereignty and sense of identity. “Only those may enter Hungary whom we want to enter”, he stressed.
Due to the changing security challenges, Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó has initiated five-party talks to be conducted in the Ministry of Defence on 12 January 2016.
The Government of Hungary strongly condemns the nuclear test announced by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, carried out on January 6. By this act the DPRK has gravely violated relevant UN Security Council resolutions, undermined the inter-Korea dialogue and posed a serious threat to the security and stability of the region.
Speaking at a press conference on fiscal data for 2015, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said last year was a turning point, as the vulnerability of Hungary’s economy has diminished and thanks to rising wages and improving employment situation and consumption the Hungarian economy has been placed on a stable growth path. As a result of favourable trends, the general government budget deficit will be around 2 percent of GDP and the government debt-to-GDP ratio is set to fall below 76 percent for 2015.
The number of people in employment has been above the 4 million mark for more than one year and a half – according to the latest jobs report by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH). The number of people in employment aged 15-74 years was up by 118 thousand, to 4 million 273 thousand in the period September-November 2015.
The Government for the time being does not find it necessary to amend key budget estimates, as the Hungarian economy has been on a stable growth path, Mihály Varga told Hungarian news agency MTI in a year-end interview.
Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas told Hungarian news agency MTI in an assessment of the sector’s performance over the past year that “Hungarian agriculture performed well in 2015, despite difficult conditions”.
“2016 will see the beginning of 1100 billion forints (EUR 3.5bn) of investment in transport throughout Hungary, 670 billion (EUR 2.1bn) of which will already be spent in 2016”, László Tasó announced.
On Thursday, British Prime Minister David Cameron will pay an official visit to Budapest, and will hold talks with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Minister of State Pál Völner told Hungarian public television M1 on 30 December 2015 that the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) will control brokerage houses more frequently in order to avoid investment frauds.