Hungary does not support the European Commission’s new migration and asylum proposal package as it may force Hungary to take in migrants, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed in an interview given to the news agency Reuters on Friday.
“Austria is one of Hungary’s closest and most important allies”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Friday in Budapest.
Everyone must step out of their comfort zone because there is an extraordinary situation, the Chief Medical Officer stressed at the Friday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
In the last four days, the police have taken action in 263 instances in total on the basis of the government decree that entered into force on Monday due to the coronavirus epidemic, the deputy head of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the fight against the pandemic said at an online press conference held on Friday.
Hungary welcomes the commencement of the negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban in Doha. As a member state of NATO, which is an active participant in the establishment of the Afghanistan peace process, we encourage the negotiating parties to take this historic opportunity to resolve their existing differences in a peaceful manner, via negotiations.
“Enterprises that are taking part in the fight against unemployment can count on the government’s support”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó emphasised on Friday in Kazincbarcika, where he presented a funding certificate to Green Plan Energy Environmental Protection Limited within the framework of the Competitiveness-Increasing Program.
Hungary welcomes the negotiations started between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban in Doha. As a NATO member state actively contributing to the peace process in Afghanistan, Hungary encourages the parties to seize this historic opportunity and to resolve their existing conflicts peacefully through negotiations.
“The Hungarian economy is successful because of the work of the Hungarian people”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Várpalota at an event to present Pannon Bakery Ltd. with its funding agreement within the framework of the Competitiveness-Increasing Program.
Even if in the European Commission’s new migration and asylum package presented on Wednesday quotas are referred to as something else, quotas will remain quotas, and Hungary opposes them, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated in Brussels on Thursday after he, together with his Polish and Czech counterparts, had talks with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen for an hour and a half.
The number of new confirmed coronavirus infections has stagnated for a week, the Chief Medical Officer said at the Thursday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the fight against the coronavirus. She underlined that in Hungary PCR tests are free for everyone if deemed justified by a general practitioner, the disease control authority or a hospital.