Up until 2020, a significant amount of EU funds – a total of HUF 750 billion – will be directly available for innovation, research and development in Hungary.
In an interview with Eger Television on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the aim of the Government’s Modern Cities programme in the coming years is to allow the disbursement of available development funds based on the decisions of local people.
Hungary condemns in the strongest terms the deadly terrorist attacks in the Northern part of the Sinai Peninsula in the cities of Sheikh Zuveid and el-Arish on 12 April, causing the death of at least 13 people and injuring many.
Deputy Prime Minister for Hungarian communities abroad Zsolt Semjén has announced that, due to the difficult situation in Ukraine, the Government will provide HUF 650 million to support Hungarians in Transcarpathia. He said that HUF 486 will be spent on supplementing the income of nearly 2000 teachers. HUF 116 million has been allocated to supporting the nutrition of 4000 children in kindergartens, and HUF 50 million for helping the work of 400 priests, mostly taking care of dispersed communities.
Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Bertalan Havasi informed kormany.hu that on Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán invited President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz to Parliament for a working lunch.
On Monday morning, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Head of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ) István Pásztor. The topics for discussion were current national policy issues and the detailed economic and regional development programmes that were prepared to the level of action plans by a specialist team from VMSZ, and which Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has undertaken to support.
According to Deputy Prime Minister responsible for Hungarian communities abroad Zsolt Semjén, having a strong Hungary or a well-organized Hungarian community in the Carpathian Basin is not enough for the survival of the Hungarian nation; maintaining the Hungarian national identity of the diaspora is also crucially important.
On Sunday at a Holocaust commemoration in front of the House of Terror Museum in Budapest, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said that hate cannot be the foundation for building a country – either in Budapest, Tapolca, the northern Borsod region of Hungary, or anywhere.
Financial markets increasingly acclaim the achievements of the Hungarian economy and Hungarian economic policy, Minister of State for Taxation and Financial Affairs Gábor Orbán told Hungarian public TV channel M1.
According to a study conducted by research institute Tárki, the rate of those at risk of poverty has significantly decreased in Hungary over the last year, Minister of State for Social Affairs and Inclusion Károly Czibere said at a Budapest conference on Friday.