“A new world order is coming about in which maintaining peace and security requires much more effort than before”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed at the United Nations General Assembly’s two-day thematic debate on international security and the global organisation’s peacekeeping activities, which began on Tuesday.
After signing a cooperation agreement with Mayor of Veszprém Gyula Porga as part of the Modern Cities Programme, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “Veszprém is a city which is in good spiritual, economic and political condition”.
“Hungarian-American relations rest on secure foundations and although they are sometimes burdened by tensions economic cooperation is excellent and joint tasks performed within the framework of Transatlantic cooperation is similarly good”, Péter Szijjártó declared in New York during a speech at the Harvard Club.
On Tuesday, the Hungarian National Assembly ordered the referendum on the compulsory resettlement quota, which was initiated by the Government.
In an interview with German international public service TV channel Deutsche Welle, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said that it is not the Hungarian government which equates migration with terrorism, but the terrorists themselves. The interview, broadcast on Sunday, was entitled “I hate the fence, but it was necessary”.
On Friday Parliamentary State Secretary at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister Csaba Dömötör told public television channel M1 that the 2017 budget could help to attract back young Hungarians living abroad.
In April 2016, consumer prices rose by 0.2 percent year-on-year, which signals a stable, benign inflationary environment. Price stability has helped preserve the value of wages and pensions, but it has also been facilitating consumption growth.
On Friday, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told public television channel M1 that, with recently proposed stricter measures, the Government of Hungary wishes to reinforce the legal aspects of the country’s border protection system.
On Sunday, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told public television channel M1 that Austria’s enhanced border protection measures suggest that the Austrian Government fears that migration routes could shift towards their country.
In his pre-agenda speech during today’s session of Parliament, Head of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister Antal Rogán asked MPs to support a debate on the ordering of the 2016 referendum outside the usual rules of parliamentary procedure so that Parliament can order the referendum on the compulsory resettlement quota as soon as possible.