“The most important goal of the government’s strategy concerning the development of financial awareness is to provide Hungarian families with the knowledge required for everyday life, to plan savings and with relation to the various forms of self-reliance”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga emphasised at the opening event of the Pénz7 (Money Week) series of programmes.
“Hungary is ready to further reinforce cooperation between the countries of the Visegrád Group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia)”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said with relation to the Slovakian parliamentary elections on his Facebook page on Sunday.
“From the perspective of Hungary’s national interest, the Hungarian government supports all measures and decisions that enable the Syrians currently living on Turkish territory to return home”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in a video published on his Facebook page on Saturday.
The same as to date, Hungary will continue to adopt all measures which are necessary in the best interests of border protection and the Hungarian people, the Minister of State for International Communication and Relations stated.
On Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke to Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan by telephone, following which he convened his security cabinet, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday evening.
At a meeting, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Anthony Muheria, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nyeri in Kenya had talks about the migration situation in Africa and Hungary’s humanitarian aid efforts, among other issues.
On Friday afternoon in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister-President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán received President of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ) István Pásztor with whom he also consulted with respect to the upcoming general elections in Serbia.
“Hungarian-Croatian relations are excellent, but they could be even better”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference on Friday in Budapest following talks with Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman.
We must prepare for migrant flows, we must prepare for regular mass attacks at the Hungarian border fence, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Good morning, Hungary’ in response to British news agency Reuters’ news reports regarding the fact that Turkey has decided not to detain any further Syrian refugees heading for Europe, either by sea or by land.
The four countries of the Visegrád Group (V4) assured the Western Balkan countries of their support for their earliest possible integration into the European Union at a meeting in Prague on Thursday.