SPENDTHRIFT FOREIGN TRAVELS

It cost HUF four and a half million of Hungarian taxpayers that Imre Németh, Minister of Agriculture signed an agreement of animal health in Beijing in January. Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy had an entourage of three busholds in Moscow, while Ferenc Juhász, Minister of Defence and his delegation had a talk in Belgium for HUF 3,8 million. The favourite destinations of ministers and state secretaries are exotic countries and mediterranean resort places. Most of the journeys for a couple of days have cost more than HUF 1 million per person.