A joint press conference held by the Government and the governing party has drawn attention to the fact that according to Fidesz, Brussels and the Soros organisations have launched a fierce attack against Hungary because of the introduction of stricter border security measures and for stopping immigrants.
“Europe needs to re-plan, because in addition to the increasingly frequent problems of an economic nature, it must also combat an identity crisis”, Parliamentary State Secretary Csaba Dömötör from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said on Monday at a ceremony in Brussels to mark the 169th anniversary of the 1848 Hungarian revolution and war of independence.
Action must be taken to prevent the European Commission from imposing penalties on the EU Member States which refuse to implement the decisions on the resettlement of asylum-seekers, the State Secretary responsible for government communication said on the public service television news channel M1 on Friday evening.
“The VAT on internet access will be reduced to 5 percent from 1 January 2018, according to the 2017-2018 schedule of the Digital Prosperity Programme (DPP)”, Prime Ministerial Commissioner for the DPP, Tamás Deutsch said in Budapest.
Rather than harassing EU nationals at the borders, illegal migration should be stopped, State Secretary for Government Communication Bence Tuzson said at his press conference held in Budapest on Saturday in the context of an EU regulation currently in the making.
On Wednesday evening the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister informed MTI that the Government has decided to make a recommendation to Budapest City Council and the Hungarian Olympic Committee that they withdraw Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.
All that the pro-immigration organisation Amnesty International has been doing is to continuously encourage people to break the law.
Csaba Dömötör takes the view that Brussels is seeking to withdraw ever more Member State powers from EU Member States without authorisation from the citizens of the EU, but the Hungarian Government will fight these attempts, the Tuesday issue of the newspaper Magyar Idők reports.
“Compared to the last day of Parliament, today minimum wages are much higher, corporation taxes have fallen significantly, family tax benefits have increased and VAT on internet access has been reduced”, the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary State Secretary, Csaba Dömötör said at a press conference in Budapest on Saturday.
The need has emerged for tightening the procedures conducted on border guarding premises because migrants have explored the loopholes of the former rules, State Secretary for Government Communication Bence Tuzson said.