Hungary will support the cooperation of Hungarian and Bangladeshi businesses by relying on new means, Eximbank will open a credit facility worth USD 90 million for the purpose, and the Hungarian Government will offer 100 scholarship grants to young Bangladeshi students to study at Hungarian universities, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday at the Hungarian-Bangladeshi Business Forum in Budapest.
After a meeting of the Seniors Council on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that next year pensions will increase by 1.6 per cent, and this year every pensioner will receive food and restaurant vouchers (“Erzsébet Vouchers”) to the value of HUF 10,000.
The economic achievements of Bangladesh also deserve attention in Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday in Budapest after he met with the Bangladeshi Prime Minister, who is paying an official visit to Hungary, in the Parliament Building. Sheikh Hasina Wazed said that there is good cooperation between Hungary and Bangladesh despite the significant geographical distance.
At a Hungarian-Ukrainian business forum in Debrecen, at which the Ukrainian prime minister also delivered a speech, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that the promising political relations which exist between Hungary and Ukraine provide a considerable tailwind for the development of economic cooperation.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has spoken on the telephone with the President-elect of the United States Donald Trump, who has invited him to Washington. The Prime Minister spoke about this in an interview published on Friday in the business daily Világgazdaság. In the interview he also gave a detailed assessment of the wages agreement signed on Thursday, stressing that the document’s most important message is that work in Hungary will be financially worthwhile.
After talks with Ukrainian prime minister Volodymyr Groysman, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán stated that Hungary supports Ukraine’s EU Membership.
Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister has informed kormany.hu that next Tuesday in the Parliament Building, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will hold talks with Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina.
As far as the Government is concerned, the meaning of the wage agreement is that „we can now say that not only do we have jobs, but it is financially worth our while to do our jobs”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated upon the signing of the 2017-2018 wage agreement on Thursday at the Ministry for National Economy.
Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks in the Parliament Building in Budapest with Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim al-Jaafari on the treatment of injured Iraqi soldiers and the fight against Islamic State.
Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed kormany.hu that in the Parliament Building on Tuesday evening Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Hans-Gert Pöttering, Chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.