The volume of retail sales grew by 6.6 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively, in February 2016 and in the initial two months of the year. Thus, an upward sales trend has been in place for the 32nd month in a row. The growth figure of February is the fifth largest within the European Union.
Deputy State Secretary for Foreign Economic Affairs Dr. Petra Pana was in Kosovo for a two-day working visit on 20-21 April 2016, during the course of which she held discussions with her Kosovan partners on opportunities for foreign economic cooperation. She met with Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo Mr. Isa Mustafa, Kosovan Minister of Agriculture Memli Kraniqi, Finance Minister Avdullah Hoti and Director-General of the Kosovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Valdet Sadiku.
EU institutions – the European Parliament and the European Commission in particular – use advisory bodies as a means to exert political pressure, Justice Minister László Trócsányi said in an interview he gave the Polish conservative monthly WPIS.
On Friday the latest issue of the German economic weekly Wirtschaftswoche published an interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán under the headline “We are at the mercy of Turkey”.
“Following discussions on the amendment of the Fundamental Law by the Ministry of Defence, a state of terrorist emergency could receive an independent statutory definition in the Constitution”, the Minister of Defence announced.
Speaking about next year’s budget on Kossuth Rádió on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary is currently going through a period of prosperity, and in 2017 Hungarians can also take another step forward.
“It is understandable that the people of Hungary were expecting a solution to the migration situation from their own national government and the Hungarian Government protected and continues to protect its own border, which is also the external border of the Schengen Area, accordingly”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday in reaction to statements by the President of the European Parliament (EP).
On Kossuth Rádió’s “180 Minutes” programme on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that both Brussels and its Hungarian ally, the left, must be stopped, because they want to bring millions of people into Europe.
“The migration crisis is one of the most serious in Europe since the Second World War”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone following Thursday’s meeting of Foreign Ministers from the Visegrád Group, Baltic and Northern European countries in Latvia.
“The Hungarian Government’s Schengen 2.0 proposal is not the problem; it is the solution”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.