The government announced a zero-tolerance policy towards anti-Semitism, Justice Minister Judit Varga said talking to the Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
“It is in Hungary interests for natural gas to arrive in Hungary via as many sources and supply routes as possible, and Turkmenistan is in possession of the world’s fourth largest natural gas reserves, following Russia, Iran and Qatar, and accordingly we have an interest in gas from Turkmenistan being able to reach Europe”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s State Secretary for Information and the International Representation of Hungary Tamás Menczer said on Tuesday in Budapest following a session of the Hungary-Turkmenistan Inter-Governmental Committee for Economic Cooperation.
“In 2010, Hungary had to be rescued from a state of economic, political and moral crisis”, the Ministry of Human Capacities’ State Secretary for Family and Youth Affairs, Katalin Novák said in Dublin on Tuesday.
“Without nuclear energy, Europe will not be able to realise climate neutrality by 2050, and accordingly the European Union must cease its negative discrimination against atomic energy”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday in Prague in his lecture at the 6th Central European Atomic Energy Conference.
“During the drawing up of the European Union’s climate strategy, one of the most important aspects is that the measures should not mean a disproportionately large budgetary burden for any member state and should not hinder economic growth”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga declared at a meeting of EU finance ministers (Ecofin).
With regard to the intensified migration pressure on Hungary’s Schengen border section, on 20 January 2020 Deputy Prime Minister-Interior Minister Dr Sándor Pintér convened an extraordinary meeting for police chiefs in Bácsalmás. The event was attended by the Ministry of Interior’s Director General for Public Security, the National Commissioner of the Police, the Budapest and County police chiefs, and senior police officers of equivalent status.
The official government resolution about the suspension of the payment of prison damages has been released.
“The economy should be Hungarian, green and high-tech”, Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said in summary of the government’s economic plans at the University of Debrecen’s economic year-opening partner meeting on Thursday.
“The European Union must face the fact that both the instability of the Sahel region and the Libyan conflict could easily give rise to a renewed surge and a further increase in migration pressure”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in Brussels in the recess of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
“Migration pressure on the southern border is increasing, and accordingly border protection has also been reinforced with the patrol boat of the Hungarian Defence Force”, Deputy Defence Minister and the Ministry of Defence’s Parliamentary State Secretary Szilárd Németh said at a press conference in Szeged on 20 January.