On Saturday, Chief Security Advisory to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on public television channel M1 that the migration pressure does not ease in spite of bad weather conditions: 2500-3000 migrants arrive in the European Union daily, and once winter is over, a movement of so far unprecedented magnitude might start.
At the inauguration of the Hungarian cultural institute in Ljubljana on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the Hungarians have a nightmare that “The Lord of History” pays them a visit and asks who they are and why they are who they are. There is only one answer to that question, he said: “The world would be a poorer place if we did not exist”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that over the next ten years Central Europe will undergo a phase of outstanding growth, while the European Union as a whole will be characterised by stagnation, or weak progress “at a toddler’s pace”.
At the joint Slovenian-Hungarian government meeting held in Brdo pri Kranju in Slovenia on Friday, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán stated that, in order to curb the flow of migrants, a fence must be built along Greece’s borders with Macedonia and Bulgaria.
“Slovenian-Hungarian cooperation is entering a new dimension via the joint Slovenian session of the two cabinets, during which six agreements that further strengthen ties between the two countries are to be signed”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Friday.
At Farkas utca church in Kolozsvár mourners paid their final respects to Reformed Church pastor, church writer and professor of theology István Tőkés. Having lived into his one hundredth year, he was described as an exemplary witness of a century. István Tőkés was also the former Deputy Bishop of the Transylvanian Reformed Church Diocese, and father of László Tőkés.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán thinks that the fact that Austria has announced that it will restrict the number of asylum seekers is a victory for common sense. In an interview on Kossuth Rádió on Friday the Prime Minister also said that the Government is already working on the 2017 budget.
The Government is doing everything in its power to ensure that companies and private persons offering personal transport services comply with regulations on taxation and driving safety, Minister of State for Parliamentary and Taxation Affairs András Tállai said. Uber drivers are going to be constantly and strictly controlled by the Hungarian Tax and Customs Administration (NAV), he added.
Economic data that repeatedly beat expectations are creating an investor-friendly environment among others for large enterprises operating in Hungary, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at the general assembly of the Hungarian Association of International Enterprises in Budapest.
On national television channel M1 on Wednesday, Parliamentary Minister of State at the Ministry of Human Capacities Bence Rétvári said that actual data reveals that leaders in Brussels are basing their immigration policy on illusory ideas.