On Wednesday, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told public television channel M1 that increasingly one can see that migrants are exploring new routes across the Balkans and from Libya to Italy.
Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga and EC Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Tibor Navracsics discussed the European Commission’s Country Report on Hungary published at the end of February. As Mihály Varga said, the Report is much more balanced and objective than that of 2016.
The 2017 Budget enables every Hungarian to make one step further, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said on Tuesday, before he handed over the 2017 Budget Bill to the Deputy President of Hungary’s National Assembly.
Hungary has utilized a lot of the good practices of the OECD and its member countries over the past 20 years, but we have also enriched the organization with our own experiences, Minister of State for Financial Affairs and OECD National Commission President Ágnes Hornung said in her welcome speech at the special session held on the 20th anniversary of Hungary’s OECD membership in the grand hall of the Academy of Sciences in Budapest.
“It is worthwhile for Hungary to tighten its economic relations with Pakistan”, Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy Levente Magyar told Hungarian M1 television following negotiations in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Tuesday.
On Saturday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated ethnographer Zoltán Kallós on his 90th birthday, to mark which a gala event was held at the Hungarian Opera in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár).
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade organised a 5-day series of programmes between April 19-23 under the name Southward Opening Diplomat Days for Latin American foreign ministry experts responsible for Europe and Hungary.
The Hungarian stage of the fourth V4 International Bicycle Race took place on 23 April. At the opening ceremony Kristóf Altusz, Deputy State Secretary for European and American Affairs emphasised the significance of the 25-year-old Visegrad Cooperation.
On 26 April 2016, a cleantech business forum was organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, the Embassy of Finland and Finnish investment promotion agency Finpro at the premises of the Embassy of Finland in Budapest. The forum focused on business opportunities in electromobility, waste-to-energy solutions and smart future.
At a ceremony on the fifth anniversary of the promulgation of the Fundamental Law, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that Islamisation is banned by the constitution in Hungary.