Blog Dec 12, 2017 Hungary's record-breaking employment rate [VIDEO] Since the fall of communism, Hungary's employment rate has never been as high as it is now. unemployment Jobs Economy Real wages
Blog As the EU Moves to ‘the Hungarian Solution on Migration,’ Says PM Orbán, Hungary Must Let the People Decide in a Referendum on the Quota System Feb 28, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács European leaders gathered in Brussels earlier this month for a European Council meeting on Britain’s proposed reform plans and again on the migration crisis. Though often heated and sometimes personal, the debate took Europe closer to the solution that Hungary and others have been proposing for months on migration: restore order at Europe’s borders before anything else.
Blog Foreign Minister in the US: More US Investment in Hungary Feb 26, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács Prime Minister Orbán has had a busy travel agenda in recent days, visiting Jakarta, Ulan Bator, Moscow, Brussels, and Prague — and in the same week, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło paid a visit to Hungary. The prime minister wasn’t the only one on the road of late. Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjártó also traveled to the United States last week.
Blog Migration and European Borders: That Moment When Other EU Leaders Sound Like Prime Minister Orbán Feb 22, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács Clearly, the debate about migration and strengthening Europe’s external borders has taken a turn. Following renewed fighting around the city of Aleppo, nearly 600,000 Syrian migrants are reportedly bound for Europe, compelling Austria and Germany to change their positions on the question of border protection.
Blog From Loan-Fueled Growth to Real Growth — Hungary’s Stabilizing Economy Feb 22, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács The latest economic data is out. Hungary’s GDP grew in 2015 by 2.9 percent, beating the forecasts, and other preliminary data shows the debt-to-GDP ratio shrinking to 75.5%. A shrinking debt along side GDP growth indicates that this economy is growing organically, not from financing. In fact, last year was encouraging on a number of economic fronts.