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Brussels should accelerate accession talks with Montenegro
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, December 19, 2017 3:00 PM
Hungary is urging the European Union to accelerate accession talks with Montenegro by opening in the first half of next year the remaining three negotiating chapters left of 35, following which there should be no more than four years before the negotiations are closed, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed at his press conference held in Podgorica on Tuesday.
Terrorists want to destroy entire European Christian civilisation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, December 19, 2017 3:00 PM
A terrorist attack committed at a Christmas fair is a clear message that terrorists want to destroy not only our everyday lives, but also our religion and culture: they want to annihilate the entire European Christian civilisation, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed on the anniversary of the Islamist terrorist attack committed in Berlin on 19 December last year.
Hungarian-Macedonian cooperation is also crucial from viewpoints of security and the economy
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, December 19, 2017 8:08 AM
Hungarian-Macedonian cooperation is crucial for Hungary for three reasons: migration, EU and NATO enlargement, and the economy, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed in his interview given to the Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday from Skopje by telephone.
Statement condemning terrorist attack on Christian church in Pakistan’s Quetta
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, December 18, 2017 3:45 PM
The Hungarian Government strongly condemns the barbaric and cowardly terrorist attack committed against Christian worshippers in Quetta on 17 December 2017.
Tesla opens towards Hungary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, December 15, 2017 12:00 PM
The world’s automotive industry is on the verge of a completely new era, and this poses particular challenges to countries such as Hungary where the automotive industry plays an extremely important role from the viewpoint of the economy’s performance, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told the Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone after he had talk with the executives of US IT and telecommunications companies and Tesla in San Francisco on Thursday.
Tusk has spoken the truth with regard to the mandatory relocation quotas
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, December 14, 2017 9:49 AM
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday, welcomed President of the European Council Donald Tusk’s statement regarding mandatory relocation quotas.
The Government is not adapting its foreign policy to third parties
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, December 13, 2017 4:58 PM
“Hungary has a clear standpoint on the Middle East and is not adapting its foreign policy to third parties”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared with relation to the status of Jerusalem at Wednesday’s session of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.
This has been a stormy year for Hungarian national minorities
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, December 13, 2017 2:56 PM
“This has been a stormy year for Hungarian national minorities, of whom the Hungarians in Transcarpathia must face the greatest difficulties because of the Ukrainian Education Act, which continues to be unacceptable”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday at his annual hearing before Parliament’s National Solidarity Committee.
A highly developed economy is unimaginable without the future of industry
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, December 13, 2017 2:54 PM
“A highly developed economy is unimaginable without the future of industry, and the automotive industry is contributing to Hungary’s performance to an outstanding degree”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary, Levente Magyar said on Wednesday in Budapest at a press conference to announce a new investment by Valeo Auto-Electric Hungary Limited.
Europe’s problems must be solved while remaining within the realms of common sense
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, December 12, 2017 4:30 PM
“Europe is facing major problems such as migration, economic development and EU enlargement, but these can only be solved well while remaining within the realms of common sense, not on an emotional basis”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in his speech at the meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Central European Initiative (CEI) in Minsk on Tuesday, on which he reported to Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone following the summit.