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Central Europe has chosen economic and security policies that are based on common sense
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 12, 2017 7:06 PM
“Although Europe has continued to lose some of its competitiveness for various reasons, Central Europe is travelling an opposite path thanks to its economic and security policies that are based on common sense, and the Hungarian Government is doing everything possible to assure the safety of its people and of investments”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed on Thursday in Milan.
Péter Szijjártó holds talks in Italy on action against the persecution of Christians and on the causes of migration
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 12, 2017 7:05 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with his Italian counterpart on joint action to prevent the persecution of Christians and on the causes of migration in Milan on Thursday.
Acceleration of Euro-Atlantic integration of Western Balkans is a security and economic interest for Europe
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 11, 2017 5:28 PM
The acceleration of the European and Euro-Atlantic integration of the Western Balkans region is a security and economic interest for the whole of Europe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday in Budapest.
The toughest possible diplomatic tools must also be considered in defence of Hungarian interests
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 11, 2017 12:57 PM
“We should not shy away from using the toughest possible diplomatic tools in representation of Hungarian interests”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in an interview published in Wednesday’s edition of Transylvanian daily Krónika.
Work begins on the constructing of the oncology hospital in Can Tho, Vietnam, which is being realised thanks to Hungarian tied aid
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 11, 2017 12:55 PM
The foundation stone of the new hospital was officially laid in Can Tho, the capital city of the Mekong Delta region, on 11 October 2017 in the presence of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Viet Tien and the city’s elders. The construction of the new hospital has been made possible thanks to a tied aid loan provided by Hungary, and will provide healthcare services to millions of people living in the region.
Krones AG to launch a project worth almost HUF 15 billion in Debrecen
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 11, 2017 12:50 PM
Krones AG is launching a project worth almost HUF 15 billion in Debrecen, and the Government has provided a non-repayable grant of HUF 5.5 billion for the operation of the new plant which will create some 500 jobs in the next few years, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said.
Deputy State Secretary Kristóf Altusz’s visit to Austria
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 11, 2017 9:58 AM
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Deputy State Secretary for European and American Relations, Kristóf Altusz held talks with Head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry’s Strategic and Policy Planning Unit Alexander Schallenberg in Vienna on 9 October 2017, in addition to which he also met with Ambassador Bernhard Wrabetz, the Chief Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Austrian Chancellor, the Austrian Chancellery’s chief security policy official and regional heads of department responsible for Hungarian-Austrian relations.
The future of cross-border Hungarians is not up for negotiation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 10, 2017 4:37 PM
“The future of the cross-border Hungarian peoples is not a matter for negotiation; Ukraine must retract the stipulations of the Education Act that violate the rights of minorities”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday.
Hungary will initiate review of EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 10, 2017 12:29 PM
The new Ukrainian education legislation creates a worse situation for Hungarians and other minorities than the situation they found themselves in regarding education in the Soviet Union, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stated in Ungvár who will initiate a review of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement at the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Member States of the European Union to be held next week.
There can be no backtracking on minority rights
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 10, 2017 12:25 PM
The EU Association Agreement stipulates that there can be no backtracking on minority rights in a partner state, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Tuesday morning on the public service television news channel M1.