“Following talks lasting throughout the day, the Slovakian government has agreed to allow Czech and Hungarian citizens travelling between the Czech Republic and Hungary to cross its territory on both the outbound and return journey, providing they spend no longer than 48 hours in Slovakia”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on his Facebook page on Tuesday evening.
“American investment trade magazine Site Selection has chosen Hungary as one of the world’s best investment destinations for the third consecutive year, and the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency has also been named the best investment agency in Central Europe for the third year running”, State Secretary Tamás Menczer from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced on his Facebook page.
“Hungary wants to build cooperation with Romania that is based on mutual respect, and would like to further develop the rational cooperation experienced during the global pandemic”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday in Bucharest, where he held talks with his Romanian counterpart Bogdan Aurescu.
“From midnight tonight, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic will be opening their borders to each other’s citizens”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó confirmed in response to a question from the press in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), at a joint press conference with President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR) Kelemen Hunor.
“The Hungarian private sector must hold its ground within a new global economic competition following the coronavirus pandemic”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in Budapest at a competitiveness program funding certificate presentation ceremony.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held a video conference with his Austrian, Czech and Slovakian counterparts on Monday to discuss the easing of the various restrictive measures introduced along the country’s borders, the Minister announced in a live video feed on his Facebook page.
“From 10 a.m. on Monday morning, citizens of the two countries will be able to cross the Hungarian-Serbian border without restriction”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced in Röszke.
“Hungary has been given the honour of being among the first to receive Avigan, a pharmaceutical containing favipiravir developed in Japan, party for the treatment of coronavirus patients, and partly for the performance of further clinical tests”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a video posted to his Facebook page on Saturday.
“A prerequisite for long-term health protection is that we have at our disposal stocks of suitable quantity and quality”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday.
In addition to handling the health repercussions of the coronavirus epidemic, handling the economic effects of the global pandemic is the government’s most important task, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest at a ceremony to present competitiveness program funding certificates on Friday.