Media outlets were extensively informed a number of times about Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s engagements during his visit to Washington. It is therefore astonishing that the Hungarian media and some politicians have been unable or unwilling to understand the facts, and inform the public accordingly.
“A repeat of what happened in 2015, when hundreds of thousands of people overran the continent unchecked, can never be allowed to happen again”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone from Copenhagen on Tuesday.
“We cannot be the weakest link in anti-terrorism”, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér stressed on Tuesday at his usual annual hearing before Parliament’s National Security Committee.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has announced that Hungary will strengthen its relations with the Republic of Mordovia, as this could mitigate the downturn in economic cooperation between Hungary and Russia.
EU Agriculture Ministers discussed the issue paper on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2020 prepared by the Dutch EU Presidency at an informal meeting on 31 May.
Status report on the migrant situation.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has announced that Hungary supports granting market economy status to the People’s Republic of China. He said that this is because the Government of Hungary thinks that China’s acquisition of the status can further expand European-Chinese economic cooperation, which is particularly important for Hungary.
On Monday in Luxembourg Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an address at the ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of the European People’s Party’s (EPP), the formation which brings together Europe’s centre-right parties. He said that without the EPP, communism would not have fallen in Europe, the Soviet Union would still exist, and its troops would still be stationed in countries like Hungary, which today would not be a Member State of the European Union.
Hungary has decided in favour of a sustainable, affordable and safe source of energy with the enlargement of the Paks Atomic Power Station, Attila Aszódi, the Government Commissioner responsible for maintaining the capacity of the Paks Atomic Power Station stressed at the plenary session of the Atomexpo 2016 international nuclear energy forum held on Monday in Moscow.
Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Agricultural Development and Hungaricums Zsolt V. Németh represented Hungary at the high-level phase of the 2nd United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA2) in Nairobi on 26-27 May 2016.