At a ceremony in the Parliament Building, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke about the importance of role models after presenting the American businessman of Hungarian origin Steven F. Udvar-Hazy – Chairman and CEO of Air Lease Corporation – with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary.
Deputy State Secretary for European and American Relations Kristóf Altusz was on an official visit to North America from 25-30 April 2016, during the course of which he met with members of the Hungarian communities of New York and Connecticut, opened the first regional diaspora meeting organised by the Consulate General in New York, held negotiations with representatives of Brooklyn’s Hungarian-rooted Jewish community and visited the Freedom House international politics institute.
György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, has told public television channel M1 that Central Africa’s multitudes of migrants have not yet even set off: conservative estimates suggest that there are some one million illegal migrants in Libya, which is a sign for European nations that they must decide on a new migration policy as soon as possible.
After the inauguration of the forest railway in Váli-völgy, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told journalists that whenever something is being built, enriched or created it is a common phenomenon that “we try to attack or obstruct it somehow, instead of being happy about it”; we might call this cynicism, he said, but “nothing has ever been built on the basis of cynicism”.
The Cabinet has submitted Hungary’s Convergence Programme for 2016-2020 to the European Commission.
According to the regular annual IMF report that summarizes findings of the Article IV consultation, Hungary’s financial exposure has significantly diminished and the Hungarian economy has grown stronger.
In the interest of intensifying defence cooperation between the two countries, Hungary is going to open a Military Attaché Office in Zagreb, Croatia, Hungarian Minister of Defence István Simicskó announced on Friday, 29 April in Budapest. He added that the Croatian military attaché is also expected to visit Budapest.
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Péter Siklósi, Deputy State Secretary for Defence Policy and Planning, Ministry of Defence held a discussion with his Polish counterpart, Deputy State Secretary Tomasz Szatkowksi in the Balaton St. building of the Ministry of Defence on Wednesday, 27 April.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán invited the Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina Husein Kavazović to Budapest on a working visit.