“Reducing bureaucracy is aimed at increasing the country’s competitiveness and increasing its economy”, the Minister of Prime Minister’s Office said in an interview with Hungarian news agency MTI. János Lázár summed up the basic principle behind reducing bureaucracy with a quote from Elbert Einstein: “The state is our servant and not we its slaves”.
“The Government is ready to begin talks on public education at any time, but asks that politics isn’t taken into schools”, the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office said at the Government Info 38 press conference.
“We must accept that international efforts to solve the crisis in Syria have so far not been effective and accordingly we cannot count on there being any reduction in the migration pressure on Europe in the short term”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in London on Thursday.
In harmony with the reindustrialization strategy and objectives of the European Union, the Hungarian Government has formulated an industrial policy blueprint of its own. Hungary wants to utilize options offered by the planning period up to 2020 through channelling EU funding to enterprise development and help expand major production-oriented sectors.
Speaking in Tatabánya at the inauguration of the new Graboplast factory, which produces luxury-quality vinyl flooring, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “The Government is supporting Hungarian capital and, bearing in mind the country’s size, the road to success leads through exports”.
On Wednesday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Witold Waszczykowski in Parliament. The Polish politician was on an official visit to Budapest to hold talks with his Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó.
Hungary rejects the insults made by the President of the European Parliament (EP), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
“Hungarian-Polish and Visegrád Group cooperation has always been in the focus of Hungarian foreign policy and will remain so in future”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and trade Péter Szijjártó said following talks with his Polish counterpart on Wednesday.
According to the Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor on National Security, the migration route could change, but the Government will do everything possible to ensure that it does not pass through Hungary.
On 2 February 2016 the Dutch Presidency of the European Union held an informal meeting of the Ministers of International Development and Trade Ministers of its Member States, the Foreign Affairs Council. Representing Hungary at the meeting was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Deputy State Secretary for International Cooperation Ádám Zoltán Kovács .