The Government of Hungary strongly condemns the missile tests conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 19 July 2016.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó concluded a new cluster of Hungarian-American economic agreements in the United States on Wednesday, while on Thursday he will be taking part in a meeting of Foreign Ministers with representatives of the international coalition fighting to halt the Islamic State terrorist organisation.
On Thursday, 20 July, Hungarian Deputy Minister of Defence Tamás Vargha attended, in Washington D.C., the meeting of defence ministers of the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He was accompanied on his journey by Péter Siklósi, Deputy State Secretary for Defence and Security Policy of the Ministry of Defence.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Bence Tuzson, Minister of State for Government Communication at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said in relation to the axe attack in Germany that the Government was shocked by the event. He expressed his sympathy with the injured on behalf of the Government of Hungary.
During recess of the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday Antal Rogán, Head of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister said that Brussels’ proposed asylum system, which has recently been published is unacceptable. The Government of Hungary is of the opinion that the referendum on mandatory relocation is more justified than ever.
The Government considers the referendum as never having been a more actual issue than it is today, and accordingly it will be intensively continuing its information campaign on the referendum.
On Wednesday, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister told public television channel M1 that an increasing number of migrants arriving to Serbia through Macedonia and Bulgaria are approaching the Hungarian border, and they are determined to continue their journey to Western Europe at any price, even by using violence.
Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs Katalin Novák announced that women’s employment rate in Hungary is on the rise and will soon reach the average level of the European Union.
Wages in real terms were up by 7.5 percent year-on-year in the period January-May 2016, according to the flash report of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH). Thus, an upward wage growth trend has been in place for the 21st consecutive month in Hungary. Since May 2015, the number of people employed by enterprises with at least five employees has increased by some 79 thousand, a record high figure.
“Hungary has indicated to the EU institutions that is it prepared to take on the rotating Presidency of the European Union from the second half of 2017, which was to have been originally assumed by Great Britain”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday.