“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade knew of eight Hungarian citizens who have until now been in the Chinese province of Hubei, which has been affected by the coronavirus epidemic, seven of whom indicated that they would like to return home ahead of time, and they arrived in Budapest yesterday evening”, the Ministry’s Minister of State for Information and the International Representation of Hungary said on Hungarian M1 current affairs television on Monday morning.
“The Hungarians who have been evacuated from the city of Wuhan are symptom-free”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Information and the International Representation of Hungary Tamás Menczer said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Sunday afternoon.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will be travelling to Brussels and then to Rome, where he will be holding talks with the leaders of the EU’s prime institutions and with the Italian Prime Minister on the challenges facing Europe and current European political issues.
“Positions on the European Union’s upcoming multiannual financial framework remain distant”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told reporters following a prime ministerial level session of the Friends of Cohesion group on Saturday in the Portuguese city of Beja.
In the interests of protecting the health of the Hungarian population, at its session on 31 January 2020 the government-established Operational Group for Protection against the Coronavirus Epidemic decided on the following Action Plan.
Statement by the Government Information Centre
“We have been among the frontrunners in the tax reduction competition between the member states of the European Union for over three years. Today’s Tax Consultation could help to ensure that in a few years’ time we also realise similar results within the field of reducing tax administration”, the Ministry of Finance’s State Secretary for Taxation Norbert Izer declared following the Tax Consultation.
“The people of the ‘Soros network’ are organising migration throughout the Balkans”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday on Kossuth Radio’s “Good Morning, Hungary!”, show.
“Judit Varga also discussed the future of Europe with Czech Justice Minister Marie Benesová”, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement after the Minister of Justice received her Czech counterpart in her office on Thursday.
“The Hungarians stranded in Wuhan could be brought home with French assistance; the aeroplane that will be transporting them is expected to leave the Chinese city in the small hours of Friday morning”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Information and the International Representation of Hungary Tamás Menczer said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.