Hungary’s current taxation system ensures the resources for development, and therefore needs to be “protected”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday, in his address to the Active Hungary conference.
The Planet Budapest 2021 sustainability expo, to be held from Nov. 30 to Dec. 5, is expected to draw 180 exhibitors, President János Áder told public radio on Wednesday.
Hungary supports Jordan in preserving its stabilising role in the Middle East with the aim of preventing the region from becoming a source of new migration waves, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Amman after talks with Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi.
The government is committed to its “endless” fight to keep public utility prices low and the upcoming elections will not change that, the prime minister said at a ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the Nézőpont Institute.
Aldi Hungary is further expanding its range of Hungarian-sourced products: the store chain buys basic dairy products from Hungarian suppliers, and from the beginning of next year, all eggs available in its stores will only come from Hungarian sources, it was told at a press conference in Budapest announced on Tuesday.
Hungary’s cash flow-based budget deficit, excluding local councils, was 2,922.2 billion forints at the end of October, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday, confirming preliminary data.
The Hungarian economy’s “dimensional shift” has picked up pace in the past year and a half despite the coronavirus pandemic, with an increasing number of international research and development investment projects being implemented in Hungary, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Tuesday.
Mihály Varga, the finance minister, in an op-ed published on Tuesday, said fiscal policy and wages only had a mild effect on inflation and the current account, and external factors were more at play.
Hungary’s economy is “shock resistant” and though hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, it was among the first economies in Europe to return to pre-pandemic growth levels, the innovation and technology minister said in Salgótarján, in northern Hungary.
The opposition LMP party, unlike Viktor Orbán’s government, would get the biggest polluters to finance the transition to a pro-environment, green economy, MP Péter Ungár said.
