“Brussels migration policy is endangering Hungarian order and the people of Hungary can stop this politics via the quota referendum”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Hungarian M1 television on Thursday.
Some print media have misinterpreted the announcement of Mihály Varga to the MTI on Wednesday, therefore the Ministry for National Economy must emphasise the following:
Thanks to a predictable and responsible economic policy, the status of Hungarian budget has been characterized by favourable processes: at the end of June 2016, the deficit of the central sub system of the state budget totalled HUF 402.1bn, the lowest H1 figure in the past one-and-a-half decades. This clearly proves that Hungarian reforms have been working also in fiscal policy, and the deficit target is certainly attainable.
“Cultural and scientific diplomacy is an important competitive factor and played an important role in 2015 having been the most successful year in the history of Hungarian foreign trade”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó highlighted on Wednesday in Budapest at a meeting of the Directors on foreign Hungarian institutes at the Balassi Institute.
“Based on the decision of President of the Republic János Áder, it is now certain that the people of Hungary will have an opportunity to stop Brussels”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in reaction to the date for the referendum on the compulsory resettlement quota having been set. “Hungary has not transferred any kind of sphere of competence to Brussels based on which compulsory resettlement might be possible”, Minister of Justice László Trócsányi declared.
“Hungary wants to be the engine of cooperation between the EU and Central Asia, because cooperation is in the interests of both Europe and Hungary”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday in Budapest following talks with his Kyrgyzstani counterpart.
At the annual conference of defence, military and air attachés held in Budapest, Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó announced that, in the spirit of strengthening its activity in military diplomacy, Hungary is going to open a new military attaché office in Zagreb this year, and another three in Bratislava, Prague and Skopje next year.
Zsolt Semjén received Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldaev, who is paying an official visit to Hungary, in the Parliament Building.
The Government is taking prompt action to prevent increasingly frequent labour shortages from becoming an obstacle to economic growth, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga told public news agency MTI.
Speaking about the referendum on EU mandatory relocation quotas on the Wednesday morning programme on Hungarian television channel M1, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said that people cannot be left out of decisions on the issue, and national governments cannot be bypassed.