Pakistan and Hungary launched the ‘Trade & Economic Window’ for collaboration in diverse fields and explore joint ventures in energy, information technology, and tourism.
Of Austria's nine provinces, those three are among the hardest-hit and have high levels of the more contagious British variant of the coronavirus, which has been causing severe cases faster and often required longer hospital stays.
Health Minister Rudolf Anschober has spoken of a "looming collapse" in eastern Austria's intensive-care wards.
The volume of new orders rose by 8% year-on-year, while the stock of orders at the end of the month was 11.5% higher than in the same period a year ago.
The European Commission is mandated with managing the 750-billion-euro scheme and has already told several EU states their proposals for spending their part of the funds must be improved.
Competition in public procurement is insufficient in practice," said the document, adding that that was linked to "systemic irregularities".
The European Commission is mandated with managing the 750-billion-euro scheme and has already told several EU states their proposals for spending their part of the funds must be improved.
The document called specifically for improved data transparency and accessibility, arguing that that would lead to a fairer and more open procurement process.
The government opened the door to the Chinese vaccine on Thursday when it announced that it would grant emergency use approval to any shot already administered to at least a million people anywhere in the world.
“We have practically made an agreement with Sinopharm,” Gulyas said. “The first shipment could include up to one million doses.”
The government has the authority to make a decision (about the protective measures).
However, the pandemic is ongoing, and case numbers have risen sharply in neighbouring countries, which means that upholding the (existing) measures is justified.
Hungary's economy took a big hit in the pandemic, and the government expects gross domestic output to shrink by about 6% in 2020 followed by a modest rebound in 2021.
Hungarian central bank Governor Gyorgy Matolcsy and his vice governors will hold an online news conference at 1400 GMT after the bank's rate decision on Tuesday.
Budapest and Warsaw are major recipients of EU budget cash, and the new mechanism was seen as a way by critics to slow a steady slide into authoritarianism in those countries.