In his official statement, Masssimo Moratti, Deputy Director for Europe at Amnesty International, reacted to events in another European capital, not Budapest. To police intervention in which flashbang, water and teargas grenades, water cannons and mounted police charges were deployed.
Hungary’s Minister of Interior evaluated the experiences gained from the unannounced demonstration on 12 December on Kossuth Square in Budapest at an operative meeting. In the name of the Government, Dr. Sándor Pintér expressed his thanks for the tenacity of law enforcement personnel.
“The Office of Immigration and Asylum committed no error during its report at Tuesday’s session of Parliament’s National Security Committee”, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér declared in a statement to reporters following the body’s extraordinary session on Wednesday.
With relation to the statements attributed to opposition MPs following the session of Parliament’s National Security Committee on 20 November 2018, the Ministry of Interior would like to definitively underline: The Director General of the Immigration and Asylum Office provided authoritative legal information on Nikola Gruevski’s asylum request that fully conformed to the given situation.
The government’s public employment policy is successful, equally for local governments in the public employment system, society and workers, the Minister of State for Local Governments at the Ministry of Interior stated on Tuesday in Budapest.
On 11-12 October 2018 the Justice and Home Affairs Council held a two-day meeting in Luxembourg. On the home affairs day of the session the Hungarian delegation was led by Interior Minister Sándor Pintér.
“Without border protection, Hungary would be a halfway house and an assembly-point for migrants, and Europe would be defenceless, and accordingly the Government in no way supports Brussels’ latest efforts aimed at taking border protection away from member states”, the Ministry of Interior’s Parliamentary State Secretary said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI following his hearings before various parliamentary committees on Wednesday.
“Brussels is attacking Hungary with another report that contains untruths so they can take away our right to protect our borders”, the Ministry of Interior stressed in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
“The Ministry of Interior and the police are fully prepared for the implementation of the ‘Stop Soros’ Act, and the coming into force of the legislative package means a further increase in the security of Hungary and the Hungarian people”, the Minister of Interior’s Parliamentary State Secretary said at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday.
“The V4 has forged a path in Europe, and the policies that the Visegrád Group pioneered are now being followed by several countries”, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said at a meeting between the interior ministers of the V4 countries and Austria.