"Romania is maintaining its standpoint on rejecting the compulsory quota system for the distribution of migrants”, Minister of State for EU Affairs of the Prime Minister’s Office Szabolcs Takács told Hungarian news agency MTI after meeting with Leonard Orban, advisor on EU affairs to Romania President Klaus Iohannis, in Bucharest on Thursday.
The latest data showing that inflation was -0.2 percent last year also signal that the purchasing value of wages and pension benefits has increased, Minister of State for Public Finances Péter Benő Banai told public news channel M1.
Statistical data show that the number of people in employment is up by 500 thousand compared to 2010. The total number of people with a job rose to more than 4.2 million last month and the hard work of these people also shows in the volume of Hungarian exports, Deputy State Secretary for Prioritized Enterprise Relations Zoltán István Marczinkó told public news channel M1, commenting on the latest foreign trade data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).
Border policing cooperation within the framework of the V4 may start already as of next week, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on the news programme of the public service television channel M1 on Thursday.
There will be 278 new government windows by next March, and a number of procedural fees will be reduced or done away with altogether as of 1 January, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference “Governmentinfo 26 – What does the Government do and why?” which he held jointly with State Secretary for Government Communications András Giró-Szász.
An agreement was reached by the Visegrád countries that the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland will also take part in the protection of the external border of the European Union and the Schengen zone on Hungary’s southern border, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian journalists on Thursday in Luxembourg.
The migration crisis can only be resolved within the framework of a comprehensive political cooperation scheme which involves the North-African countries which have to date played a key role in curbing the flood of illegal immigration afflicting the Mediterranean region, the State Secretary for Economic Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told the Hungarian News Agency MTI in a statement made by telephone from Rabat on Thursday.
In its decision published on 6 October, the Constitutional Court established that the legal rules which regulate the status and procedures of the Government Control Office are in harmony with the Fundamental Law, the Prime Minister’s Office informed the Hungarian News Agency MTI on Thursday.
During their meeting in Budapest on 7 October, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović touched upon the issue of the unscheduled Croatian train which arrived in Magyarbóly, Hungary on 18 September 2015.
In September 2015, consumer prices were on average 0.4 percent lower, year-on-year. Along with the significant drop of fuel prices, the free school book scheme of the Government launched last year also contributed to the change in the overall price level.