The number of migrants who seek to cross the Serbian-Hungarian border illegally is on the rise: some 500 attempted to cross the border illegally in January, 650 up to 15 February, and in the last ten days 110 migrants have sought to enter Hungary illegally per day on average, György Bakondi said at his press conference held on Saturday in Budapest.
Compared with its former assessments, the European Commission offers a much more balanced evaluation of the state of the Hungarian economy and the Hungarian reforms in its report published today. The Commission perceives a number of changes in a positive light, and lays particular emphasis on the improvement of the general state of the economy.
Hungary’s Ambassador to Canberra Attila Gruber and Australian Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton signed a Hungarian-Australian Work and Holiday visa arrangement at a ceremony in Australia’s Parliament on 24 February 2016. The document is the result of several years of preparation.
“Hungary is showing by far the most solidarity with Germany in view of the fact that no illegal immigrants are arriving in Germany via its territory”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI following several meetings in Stuttgart.
The Justice Minister takes the view that the Government’s referendum initiative is just and legitimate.
“Had Europe accepted the Hungarian solution to the immigration crisis a year ago, this is not where we would be now”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
Árpád János Potápi, State Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office for National Policy described the reinforcement of young entrepreneurs in the Carpathian Basin as a national interest at a conference held in Bucharest.
Nándor Csepreghy believes that, with the amendment of the laws on referenda, it will be possible to prevent the recurrence of undignified incidents such as the one that occurred in the building of the National Election Office in Alkotmány utca on Tuesday.
“The development of the tourism industry requires the establishment of an efficient, modern and well-functioning organisational system, in view of which the Hungarian Tourism Agency is to be set up to concentrate tourism-related resources” Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson announced at the Budapest Tourism 2020 conference.
“The Russian embargo has caused some 4.5 billion US Dollars in damage to the Hungarian economy; this is the estimated value of lost exports”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Ministerial Commissioner for external economic measures related to the Russian embargo said at a press conference in Budapest on Friday.