Next year’s budget brings the country closer to the goal of full employment, Prime Minister Orbán said on Kossuth Radio on Friday. He stated that the aim is to ensure that by 2018 all income subsidies become unnecessary. We will put Hungary to work, he added.
Prime Minister Orbán stated on Kossuth Radio’s 180 Minutes program that the extension of the telecommunications tax cannot be introduced in its current form, adding that the tax legislation submitted to Parliament has to be amended.
The Government will create further new jobs in the next four years, and seeks to achieve full employment in cooperation with the world of business as well as to significantly increase the number of qualified workers, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday in Budapest at the ceremony held on the occasion of the opening of the training centre of Siemens.
The people of Hungary have performed well in recent years and everyone would like to work with the kind of labour and invest in the kind of secure and calculable environment that Hungary has to offer, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday in Milan. The Prime Minister was attending the two-day Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), which ended on Friday with the participation of 53 heads of state.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of heads of state and government in Milan on Friday, during which he held bilateral talks with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak to discuss, amongst others, the rapid establishment of a joint Hungarian-Kazakh investment fund and the reopening of the Hungarian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
Hungarian-Swiss economic cooperation is free from problems, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Didier Burkhalter, President of the Swiss Confederation concluded at their meeting held in Milan on Friday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán handed over the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary to former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar on Wednesday in the Parliament Building in Budapest. President of the Republic János Áder awarded the decoration to the former people’s party Prime Minister in recognition of his efforts made for the promotion of Hungarian-Spanish relations, Hungary’s Euro-Atlantic integration, and the enforcement of Hungary’s European interests.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán takes the view that unity and cohesion have yielded satisfactory results in the past four years, and a large section of society wishes to see the continued pursuance of this policy. Deliberating the chances of the municipal elections to be held on Sunday, the Prime Minister said on the radio station Kossuth Rádió that there are no foregone conclusions in any election because those who feel that the election results are already secure will no doubt face unpleasant surprises.
The public works scheme has been highly beneficial for the Roma community in the past four years, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday after he had a meeting with Flórián Farkas, President of the National Roma Self-Government (ORÖ) as part of which they reviewed the agreement between the Government and the organisation.
Hungary has demonstrated that jobs can be created even with the maintenance of financial discipline and the reduction of the sovereign debt, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Wednesday in Milan before the start of the Employment Summit.