“It is only thanks to a fortunate combination of circumstances that there is currently no significant migration pressure on Europe, and not because the EU has found a common solution or introduced the required measures”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed at a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade condemns the terrorist attack in Istanbul in the strongest possible terms. According to a statement by the Ministry’s Press Chief, the security of the European Union begins with the stability of Turkey, and accordingly all attacks of this kind also constitute an attack against the European Union.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was shocked to hear of the train derailment in Hitrino, Bulgaria, which has left several people dead and many seriously injured.
The Government of Hungary is shocked by the bomb attack in the Saint Peter Coptic Cathedral, which claimed many innocent lives. Hungary expresses its deepest sympathy to the Christian Community and the people of Egypt. We share their grief and sorrow.
“Hungarian-Slovakian political and economic relations have achieved a never before seen high level”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Agricultural Diplomacy, Levente Magyar said at a press conference following a session of the Hungarian-Slovakian Joint Economic Committee.
“A strong European Union can only be established if it is built on strong member states”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday at his annual hearing before Parliament’s European Affairs Committee.
Hungarian-Slovakian economic relations are expanding dynamically and the Hungarian National Trading House (MNKH) and the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO) concluded a cooperation agreement on Thursday in Budapest to facilitate further growth.
“Hungarian-Russian economic cooperation has exited the negative spiral and has begun moving in a positive direction for the first time since the introduction of economic sanctions against Russia by the European Union”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI in Thursday following a meting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Hamburg.
“A new order has developed in the world, the opportunities of which can only be fully made use of if North America, Europe and Central Asia cooperate to a greater degree than they have so far”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Hamburg at a session of the highest level governing body of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Ministerial Council.
Deputy State Secretary for Hungary’s foreign trade policy of Opening to the South Szilveszter Bus was on an official visit to Malaysia on 5-7 December, where he held talks with officials from the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Trade and Industry and gave opening speeched at the Hungary Fair 2016 trade fair and expo organised by the Hungarian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur to showcase the premium quality products of Hungarian enterprises, and at the opening ceremony of Hungarian Gastronomy Weeks.