Hungary

Hungary's ruling party counts on allies abroad to get out the vote in May's European elections, held in the wake of Fidesz's suspension from the European People's Party bloc.

Russia will begin delivering natural gas to Hungary via the TurkStream pipeline in the second half of 2021, Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on March 21.

Executive Director of the Bulgarian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Promotion Agency /BSMEPA/ Dr. Boyko Takov had a meeting on Monday with Mr. Tomash Budai, the Hungarian trade representative in Bulgaria.

A second meeting of the Intergovernmental Bulgarian-Hungarian Commission for Economic Cooperation will be held in Budapest, Hungary, between 15 - 16 April 2019. Co-chairman of the Bulgarian side is Mr. Emil Karanikolov, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Bulgaria, and on the Hungarian side Mr. Petar Sijardo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Peter Szijjarto praised the Bulgarian-Hungarian relations by focusing on the political and economic ties between the two countries, the press center of the Council of Ministers announced.

This happened on the 30th anniversary of the fall of communism, Beta agency is reporting on Tuesday.

Pompeo said in Bratislava that China and Russia pose a double threat to progress in democracy and free market since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Bulgaria's Deputy Premier for Economic and Demographic Policy Mariana Nikolova met in Budapest with Hungary's Minister of State for Family, Youth and International Affairs Katalin Novák, reported the Bulgarian National Radio.

According to the US media outlet, cited by Sputunik, the Hungarian prime minister made the statement at a meeting with the US ambassador last month.

The works will therefore start only in 2020, a year later than planned, Beta reported on Wednesday citing MTI.

The projected modernization cost of 152 kilometers between Budapest and the border with Serbia amounted to 578 billion Hungarian forints (EUR 1.79 billion) in May 2018.

Convergence in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in the area of ​​income is threatened by a slowdown if these members do not restructure their economies faster and do not begin to bring about the related productivity gains. That's what Moody's warned, reports money.bg