In an interview for Austrian daily Kurier published on Monday, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said he found it surprising that Austria was debating the free movement of labour and its possible restriction in the case of Eastern Europeans at all.
“The large volume of foreign investment proves that foreign enterprises are satisfied with the Hungarian decision-making system”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in Budapest.
Hungary has agreed with Iran on the further development of nuclear cooperation, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at his press conference held in Budapest on Friday.
Hungary rejects the Greek standpoint that Athens should not be criticised by countries that have not provided it with any assistance towards finding a solution to the migration crisis”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Prague following a meeting of V4 foreign ministers.
“Visegrád cooperation has never been as important as it is now, when Europe is facing serious problems and challenges”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said following a meeting of Visegrád Group (V4) Foreign Ministers in Prague on Thursday.
“Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is to visit Budapest this spring, in addition to which the next session of the Hungarian-Russian Joint Economic Committee is also due to meet in the Hungarian capital on 22 June”, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told reporters in Novo-Ogaryovo just outside Moscow, following Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, although Werner Faymann is now saying what Hungary has said all along, he continues to insult the country.
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjártó met with United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman in New York on Tuesday to discuss the issue of European immigration and the releasing of UN documents relating to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
“Hungarian-American economic cooperation has entered a new dimension with the formation of the American-Hungarian Business Forum”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI after attending the founding meeting of the organisation in New York.
Reacting to Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann’s proposal to impose stricter regulations on employment abroad published in Austrian daily Österreich’s weekend edition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade published a statement on Monday, in which he declared that “we reject all discriminative regulations and efforts to introduce such rules. Furthermore, we find it odd that Austria’s Chancellor is planning stricter regulations against EU citizens, while opening its gates wide to migrants”.