This year due to the coronavirus epidemic, only the ceremonial raising of the national flag and the presentation of the Hungarian Legion of Honour awards will be held from among the government programmes commemorating the 1956 revolution and freedom fight, the Minister of State for International Communication and Relations told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
As the launch of the nest box mounting programme of the One with Nature World of Hunting and Nature Exhibition, 3,500 nest boxes and 350 bird feeders are being mounted throughout the country, the government commissioner responsible for the implementation of the exhibition said on Tuesday in Nagymaros.
Health care is fully prepared and all equipment is available during the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic, the Government Spokesperson said on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Good morning, Hungary’ on Monday.
The government has launched a call for proposals so that as many event technicians can stay within their profession as possible, the Government Spokesperson announced in a Governmentinfo Plus information video posted on her social media account on Sunday.
The government has adopted the decisions necessary to keep the epidemic under control in order to protect people’s lives and health, whilst ensuring that the country need not go into lockdown, the Government Spokesperson stressed on the Thursday evening programme of the public service television news channel M1.
“I’m seriously concerned about media freedom in Germany,” the Minister of State for International Communication and Relations posted on Facebook on Friday, commenting on the incident that developed in the wake of a statement concerning Hungary and Poland by German social democrat politician Katarina Barley, Vice President of the European Parliament.
Without any prior explanation, Twitter blocked ‘About Hungary,’ the official account of the Government of Hungary, the Minister of State for International Communication and Relations announced on Facebook on Wednesday.
The statements made by Vice President of the European Commission Vera Jourová render her unfit for the job of EU commissioner, Minister of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács stated on the public service television news channel M1 on Tuesday morning.
Since 2015, the stance of the Hungarian Government on migration has been clear and unchanged. We have presented this stance and our proposals on several occasions.
Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod wrote an opinion piece for the news portal Altinget under the title ‘Poland and Hungary could undermine foundations of EU’ which Minister of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács rejected. His reply was published on the portal on Wednesday.