Citing information from the secret services, the Prime Minister’s Chief Security Advisor said: “in certain zones anarchist groups” appear among the migrants and assist them, including by providing tools with which to cut through border security fences.
Hungary is ready to build the fence on the Hungarian-Romanian border if necessitated by the migration situation, the Prime Minister’s chief advisor stated at a press conference.
While Hungary is protecting its borders and simultaneously the external border of the Schengen Area, Greece is “totally ignoring the common regulations and is allowing huge numbers of unidentified illegal immigrants to travel on into Europe”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade stressed on Saturday in a statement issued to Hungarian news agency MTI.
Speaking at a ceremony held on Kecskemét Air Base to mark the 10th anniversary of the JAS–39 Gripen fighter jets entering service, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence stated that “the Hungarian Air Force has guaranteed the security of tens of millions of European citizens by simultaneously performing air policing tasks in the Baltic countries and Slovenia for four months.”
Immigration will be one of the most important issues of the period to come from the viewpoint of Hungary and the Hungarian nation, and on this issue it is the Hungarian people that will have to decide, the State Secretary for Government Communication at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister stated on Friday at a press conference held in Eger.
At a trade forum organised by the Romanian-Hungarian Business Circle Association (Rocham) in Budapest on Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary said that “Romania is one of Hungary’s important strategic partners; trade flow between the two countries reached 7.3 billion euros last year, a 2.8 per cent increase compared to the previous year”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has thanked Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer for the fact that Bavaria has responded with understanding and without prejudice to the difficulties Hungary has experienced as a result of the migrant crisis.
Minister of Human Capacities and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Alliance for a Civic Hungary Foundation Zoltán Balog praised the thousand-year relationship between the two peoples and its common points at a Hungarian-Bavarian conference held in Budapest under the title Current Challenges Facing Europe.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade expresses its profound disappointment at the news that President of Romania Klaus Iohannis has rescinded the “Star of Romania” state decoration bestowed on László Tőkés – MEP, retired Reformed Church pastor and outstanding representative of Transylvanian Hungarians – by former President of the Republic of Romania Traian Băsescu in 2009 for Mr. Tőkés’ role in the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
The Government will discuss the closure of the reception centres situated near the southern border, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office and Member of Parliament for the region announced on Friday in Mártély, at the off-site meeting of the Hódmezővásárhely Municipal Board.