According to secret service information, the threat of terrorism has increased in France, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office pointed out at his press conference.
The Hungarian Government’s investor-friendly economic policy offers favourable opportunities to businesses from the United States as well, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga stated at the meeting held with the delegation of the US-Hungary Business Council.
The Government of Hungary strongly condemns the tests conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on June 22, 2016 in the course of which two Musudan-type intermediate-range ballistic missiles were fired.
In Pécs on Thursday, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, attended an international scientific conference entitled “From border police to police sciences”, at which he said in his presentation that national solutions have been realised along the Balkan migration route in coordination with Austria. Referring to the most recent report by the EU border agency Frontex, he said that thanks to these national solutions “the decline in the volume of migration had already occurred before the EU-Turkey deal entered into force”.
“A strategic alliance and friendship with Austria is in Hungary’s interests and these relations must be based on mutual respect and recognition”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Budapest after having told his Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz: “We must protect the EU’s external borders together, because a Europe without internal borders can only be guaranteed via effective border protection”.
At a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday, Government Commissioner for Tourism Gusztáv Bienerth announced that next year the Government will spend HUF 21 billion – more than ever – on development of the sector, through the budget for tourism and the newly-established budget for tourism development.
“One of the priority goals of Hungarian economic policy continues to be to improve domestic and international conditions for sustainable economic growth”, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga stressed at the opening of the International Investment Bank’s (IIB’s) Council Meeting in Budapest.
Russia is a priority economic, trade and energy partner of Hungary, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said after the meeting of the Hungarian-Russian inter-governmental economic committee on Wednesday in Budapest.
A new office of the Central-European trade development network of the Hungarian National Trading House was opened on Wednesday in Ipolyság, and as a result, the network of the institution in Slovakia comprised of seven offices is now complete.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade strongly condemns the terrorist attack committed on Tuesday, in which six members of the Jordanian security forces lost their lives and fourteen were injured.