“The Hungarian Government initiated a referendum on illegal migration precisely so that the Hungarian people decide their destiny and not the Luxembourgian Foreign Minister”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
The Government’s economic policy has proven successful month after month, and this is also reflected by fiscal processes. At the end of April 2016, the central sub sector of the state budget accumulated a deficit of HUF 144.9bn, the lowest figure in this time of the year in the past fifteen years.
On Friday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks on bilateral relations with Minister of Defense of Georgia Tinatin Khidasheli.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó informed Hungarian news agency MTI that United Nations will lift the confidential status of its documents on Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution stored at Columbia University and the UN’s archives.
The Government will initiate further restrictions to protect the borders. Károly Kontrát said at a press conference held on Friday: the Ministry has submitted a bill to Parliament with a view to reinforcing the legal protection of the state borders.
The OECD Economic Survey of Hungary, published earlier today, presents an upbeat picture of the country’s macro-economic situation, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at the press conference held after the presentation of the document.
On Thursday, Hungarian portal atv.hu reported that the previous day migrants at the Körmend migrant reception centre “kicked in” the full-height window of the neighbouring police academy’s sports hall. According to the report, the incident occurred after migrants “started staring at a training session of the junior female handball team, and when the officer in charge at the school asked them to leave, one of the men kicked in the window”.
On Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó received Speaker of Polish Parliament Marek Kuchcinski with whom, amongst others, he discussed Central European cooperation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Hungarian news agency MTI.
With reference to the European Commission’s proposal to allow EU Member States to deny the resettlement of migrants in their countries on condition that they pay EUR 250,000 for each migrant denied entry, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that the plan is nothing short of outrageous.
Speaking at a press briefing held in Budapest on Thursday, 5 May together with Georgian Defence Minister Tinatin Khidasheli, Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó emphasized that in the fields of economy, politics and the military, Georgia has made praiseworthy efforts to join the Euro-Atlantic community.