News and events

September 24, 2013 2:31 PM

Another 3 billion forints to help out stuck Panel Programme tenders

The Ministry of National Development has awarded a subsidy of HUF 3bn for the financing of the applications of the Green Investment Scheme Panel Programme II.

September 23, 2013 5:38 PM

Solzhenitsyn exhibition opens in Budapest's House of Terror

"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did not simply unveil the brutality of the communist terror, but became the chronicler of millions of victims, including hundreds of thousands of Hungarians, who were not given the opportunity to tell their story", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the opening of the exhibition entitled „A Russian Patriot – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)" in Budapest’s House of Terror Museum.

September 23, 2013 5:24 PM

Tourism and Water: motto of this year’s World Tourism Day

Tourism experts want to turn focus on the fact that one of the most important instruments and resources of tourism is water, Deputy CEO of Hungarian Tourism Ltd Gergely Horváth said at the press conference organized to commemorate the event. Gergely Horváth stressed that this is the third year that the World Tourism Day is celebrated in Hungary and this year’s motto also aims to raise awareness in environmental issues as the development of tourism has been an increasing burden on the environment.

September 23, 2013 5:21 PM

UN needed on the long term in Afghanistan

Hungary’s position is that the United Nations’ presence will be needed on the long term in Afghanistan, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Political Director Szabolcs Takács, at the meeting of the International Contact Group on Afghanistan and Pakistan in New York City. He stated that the reason for this is that among others the global organization continues to play an important confidence building role in the Afghan society.

September 23, 2013 5:15 PM

Technical intelligentsia will play a key role in the creation of a powerful Hungary

In the opinion of the Minister for National Economy, Hungarian technical intelligentsia will be a determining factor in the building of a strong and successful Hungary with steadily expanding economy.

September 23, 2013 5:00 PM

National Water Strategy ready for submission

The Water Strategy has been completed and may soon be submitted to the Government, the Ministry of Rural Development's Deputy State Secretary for Water announced at the OMÉK agriculture fair. The social debate on the Strategy, during the course of which over 1300 comments and suggestions were submitted, closed in July. The Ministry has processed the recommendations and incorporated a significant number of them into the Strategy.

September 23, 2013 4:58 PM

Hungary and Vietnam Sign Nuclear Cooperation Agreement

Minister of State for Energy Affairs Pál Kovács and Deputy Minister for Education Pham Manh Hung signed a bilateral agreement on nuclear training, research, administrative and technical cooperation in the presence of President of the Republic of Hungary János Áder and President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Truong Tan Sang in Sándor Palace on 16 September 2013.

September 19, 2013 4:50 PM

Hungarian-Russian Joint Economic Committee decides on establishing agricultural joint enterprises

At the meeting of the Hungarian-Russian Joint Economic Committee on Wednesday in Budapest, it was agreed that the agriculture ministries of the two countries would begin preparations for the establishment of joint enterprises in order to increase agricultural trade, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations of the Prime Minister’s Office Péter Szijjártó said at the press conference following the meeting.

September 19, 2013 4:46 PM

French company Auchan opens training centre in Fót

Minister of State for Social and Family Affairs Miklós Soltész and CEO of Auchan Hungary Dominique Ducoux inaugurated a new training centre in Fót, north of Budapest, on Wednesday. The new centre will play an important role in the training of disabled workers.

September 18, 2013 4:39 PM

Hungary establishes the Danube Coordination Centre

It is high time the Danube Coordination Centre was set up - said Minister of Interior, Sándor Pintér at the opening conference of the Danube River Forum in Budapest. The establishment of the centre and the definition of operation principles is a common task – added the Minister of Interior.