The Operational Directorate is holding an extraordinary meeting at the Ministry of Interior on 24 February 2020.
“Because of the coronavirus epidemic, we recommend that people planning to travel to Northern Italy only decide on the visit following careful consideration and balancing”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s State Secretary for Information and the International Representation of Hungary Tamás Menczer said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Sunday.
Climate protection is a top priority also in Hungary, and in actual fact, this topic is much more important than to allow it to be in the crossfire of political battles, Government Spokesperson Alexandra Szentkirályi said on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Sunday Paper’.
The organisers of the political demonstration exposed themselves as fewer than a bus full of people arrived from Gyöngyöspata to attend the demonstration advertised under the title “For a free Gyöngyöspata”. This means that 98 per cent of the people of Gyöngyöspata said no to this political campaign, László Horváth, the Prime Minister’s appointee and Member of Parliament for the constituency stated in a video message posted on the government’s Facebook account on Sunday.
“The period between 1 October and 31 December 2019 was a jubilee period from the perspective of economic growth, since it was exactly the tenth quarter in succession in which annual GDP growth exceeded 4 percent. The international assessment of Hungarian economic policy is increasingly favourable and the credit rating agencies, and most recently the Japan Credit Rating Agency and Standard and Poor’s, for instance, have acknowledged the performance of the Hungarian economy”, the Ministry of Finance’s Parliamentary State Secretary András Tállai said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
In a message, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wished Archbishop of Gyulafehérvár (Alba Iulia) Gergely Kovács, who was consecrated on Saturday, wisdom and blessed service. The message was read out by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén at the end of the consecration ceremony.
The Gyöngyöspata school lawsuit will feature in two questions in the new national consultation, László Horváth, the Prime Minister’s appointee and Member of Parliament for the constituency said on Saturday in a video message that is accessible on the government’s Facebook account.
In Brussels on Friday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made a statement after an EU summit on the EU multiannual financial framework for the period from 2021. Mr. Orbán said that it is unacceptable that four net contributors to the budget – Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden – have rejected President of the European Council Charles Michel’s proposed contribution level of 1.074 per cent of gross national income (GNI), and want to continue paying 1 per cent of GNI into the EU budget. The Prime Minister said that an ambitious Europe needs an ambitious budget.
Migrants often attempt to cross the Hungarian border presenting forged passports, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on the public service television news channel M1 on Friday evening.
“Never before has so much construction taken place simultaneously between Hungary and Slovakia than currently”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in the Eastern Slovakian village of Kechnec (Kenyhec) on Friday at a joint press conference with Slovakian Economy Minister Peter Žiga following the signing of a memorandum of understanding on energy cooperation concerning the shipment of natural gas.