On Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” programme on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in relation to the European Union’s handling of the immigration crisis that “individual action is better than unified inertia”.
“It is important for the Hungarians of Southern Slovakia to acquire parliamentary representation”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy Levente Magyar declared in Bratislava on Tuesday.
“The referendum on the EU quota system will not determine the future of Europe and Hungary for the next one or two years, but for the next five to ten years, and in fact for the next century” the Minister of State for Government Communication stressed, adding that it is a long-term issue of national strategy.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will be making an official visit to Azerbaijan over the weekend, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief informed Hungarian news agency MTI.
“The number of migrants arriving in Hungary is increasing despite the greatest possible protective measures”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said on M1 Hungarian Television’s Thursday evening current affairs program.
Greece is intervening in the lawsuit which Hungary instituted against the mandatory settlement quotas; Greece’s intervention is “anti-Hungary”, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference „Governmentinfo 41 – What does the Government do and why?” which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
The pace of the expansion of the Hungarian tourism sector is outstanding even from an international perspective; thanks to the exemplary cooperation of enterprises, professional organizations and the Government, Minister of National Economy Mihály Varga said at the 39th Travel Exhibition in Budapest.
The implementation of more than 300 kilometres of priority road development has reached another important milestone. In Budapest on 2 March 2016, Minister for National Development Miklós Seszták signed a grant agreement with a total value of HUF 667 billion.
We cannot allow the spread of ideals which are aimed at the extermination or persecution of ethnic or religious groups, Szabolcs Takács, the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) stressed in his speech delivered at the conference on the Roma Holocaust held on Wednesday in Budapest.
„Hungary, and Hungarian enterprises, have concluded nuclear, food industry and air traffic agreements in the United Arab Emirates”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone on Wednesday following the end of two days of talks in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. “The fact that the Persian Gulf nation has the highest per capita electricity consumption in the world, is one of the highest consumers of water and imports almost all of its food requirements designates the main areas of cooperation between the two countries in which Hungarian enterprises can achieve success”, the Minister stated.