“The further easing of restrictions is occurring along the Slovakian-Hungarian border in view of the fact that on Thursday the Slovakian government made it possible for its citizens to travel to neighbouring countries, including Hungary, for no longer than a day without the mandatory need to go into quarantine upon returning home”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on his Facebook page on Thursday.
“Hungary has prevented the uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus epidemic, and accordingly from now on the new task of crisis management is job protection”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at a presentation of competitiveness program funding certificates on Thursday.
From Monday, the administration of vaccines to seventh-grade students will continue, the Chief Medical Officer said at the Thursday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
At his Thursday online press conference, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office described Hungary’s effort to contain the coronavirus epidemic as among the most successful on a European level.
Response to a statement of the Helsinki Committee.
From 6.00 a.m. on Thursday, all border crossing stations operated on the Romanian-Hungarian border prior to the state of danger have reopened, 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.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held a telephone meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, who he congratulated on the formation and appointment of the new Israeli government.
“A tender with a budget of five billion forints (EUR 14.3 million) is being launched on Wednesday to fund the acquisition of purely electric cars and mopeds”, the Ministry of Innovation and Technology’s State Secretary for Energy and Climate Policy Péter Kaderják announced at a press conference in Budapest.
“Another crossing point was opened along the Hungarian-Romanian border on Thursday morning, this time between Nyírábrány and Valea Iui Mihai (Érmihályfalva)”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on his Facebook page.
This year, the European Commission will not be examining member states’ deviation from the system of budgetary regulations, it states amongst others in the working document of the 2020 country specific report and recommendations on Hungary published by the Commission within the framework of the European Semester.