Rising foreign trade surplus helps reduce Hungary’s external debt burden faster and at a larger extent than previously expected, Minister of State for Economic Regulation Béla Glattfelder told public news channel M1, commenting on foreign trade data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).
Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér has decided on the disbursement of HUF 3.5 billion, to be spent by 207 local governments on investments related to their operations.
Representing the subsequent host country of the World Aquatics Championships, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received the flag of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) on Sunday at the closing ceremony in Kazan.
The latest employment, retail, industrial production and export figures confirm that the Hungarian reforms are working, and the Hungarian economy is producing outstanding results also by European standards, Minister of State for Economic Regulation at the Ministry for National Economy Béla Glattfelder said on Saturday at a press conference held in Budapest.
Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Bertalan Havasi has informed kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan, on Friday evening in Kazan (the capital of the Republic, which is part of the Russian Federation). In their meeting they discussed economic matters.
The Bavarian newspaper Passauer Neue Presse published an interview with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó in its Thursday issue under the title „With genuine refugees there is no need for quotas”.
Minister of State for Economic Regulation at the Ministry for National Economy Béla Glattfelder told public news channel M1 on Friday that data from June shows that over the past year more than twenty thousand new jobs have been created in the industrial sector.
At the end of July 2015 the accumulated deficit of the central sub-sector of the state budget was HUF 894.1 billion. Within this, the central budget closed the month with a deficit of HUF 953.7 billion, while Social Security Funds and Extra Budgetary State Funds posted surpluses of HUF 36.7 billion and HUF 22.9 billion, respectively.
At a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács announced that the construction of the temporary border barrier is continuing at full speed; 364 soldiers and 112 public workers are currently working in 13 teams.
In an interview with public news channel M1 on Wednesday, Minister of State for Economic Regulation Béla Glattfelder said that retail sales in June were exceptionally high, recording a growth rate adjusted for calendar effects of 6.2%.