Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the parties agreed that precautions and vigilance must be maintained, because the level of coronavirus infection will continue to increase in many countries in the near future.
Hungary would like to see a fair EU recovery package; the present proposal must be stripped entirely of discriminatory elements, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday in Lednice, in the Czech Republic.
In the spirit of zero tolerance against violence, on Tuesday the Ministry of Justice submitted a bill on the tightening of the rules relating to conditional release to Parliament. The purpose of the bill is to exclude the possibility of conditional release without exception in the case of persons sentenced to imprisonment for a fixed term due to crimes resulting in the wilful extinguishing of human life, Justice Minister Judit Varga told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
During the coronavirus crisis, the European Parliament was part of the problem, not the solution, and attacked a member of the European family in a situation which was difficult as it was, Justice Minister Judit Varga said in an interview published on the online portal of the French weekly Valeurs actuelles.
From Friday, Hungarian nationals will be allowed to enter Hungary from Croatia in passenger traffic without the obligation of having to retire to compulsory home quarantine, a staff member of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic said at an online press conference held on Thursday.
The number of active infections is decreasing day after day; however, the virus is still “with us,” the Chief Medical Officer underlined at the Thursday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
“Hungary’s 2021 budget is the budget of economy protection, which while also maintaining the epidemiological state of readiness includes the resources required for supporting families who are raising children, valuing pensioners, preserving workplaces, and the creation of new jobs”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said on Monday in Parliament.
The European Commission is systematically working to weaken action taken against migration, the Minister of State for International Communication and Relations told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó discussed results relating to protecting against the coronavirus pandemic and international politics concerning Israel with the United States President’s Senior Advisor on the Middle East Jared Kushner.
As expected, the restrictive measures currently in effect at all border crossing stations on the Hungarian-Croatian border will be lifted on Friday, a staff member of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic said at an online press conference held on Wednesday.