On Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with China’s Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Wang Xiaotao on the modernisation of the Budapest-Belgrade railway line.
The UN Working Group on discrimination against women has in certain instances given a distorted presentation of the Hungarian government’s measures to support women.
On Friday evening György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told public television channel M1 that the physical border barrier has a deterrent effect, and that there is no threat of a violent break-in from the Röszke and Tompa transit zone.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed Hungarian news agency MTI that on Friday Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó received China’s Ambassador to Budapest Duan Jielong, with whom he reviewed the development of Hungarian-Chinese economic relations.
György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, has told public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió that due to the clearance of the refugee camp in Idomeni last week, the migration pressure on the Hungarian-Serbian border is continuously increasing: every day, 100–150 people are attempting to enter the territory of Hungary by damaging the physical border barrier, and another 700–900 are being deterred by the presence of border protection officers.
In Beregszász / Berehove in Transcarpathia on Thursday, State Minister for Social Affairs and Inclusion Károly Czibere said that Hungarians and the entire population of Transcarpathia should be aware that, despite the migration crisis, the Hungarian government has not forgotten them and will continue – and even expand – its multi-faceted support.
The infringement procedure launched recently against Hungary is nothing other than revenge from Brussels, after Hungary made it clear that it will not redirect inclusion funds towards migration purposes.
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will travel to Luxembourg to attend the summit of the European Peoples’ Party, which will mark the 40th anniversary of the party’s existence.
“There is noticeably continuous and increasing migrating pressure along the Hungarian-Serbian border”, the Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor on Homeland Security György Bakondi stated.
In his speech delivered on the Memorial Day of Hungarian Heroes, Minister of Defence István Simicskó stated that “our heroes give us courage to meet the challenges of today’s world and the future”.