The Ministry for Innovation and Technology has published the documents of the recently adopted Energy and Climate Policy Strategy on the government website.
Community watch officers are the government’s strategic partners. They are taking part in border protection, and with this they significantly contribute to good public security in Hungary, the Prime Minister’s appointee for priority social affairs stated at a press conference.
The government is suspending the payment of prison awards with immediate effect, Pál Völner, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Saturday.
“The past ten years of Hungarian politics has proven that successful economic policy does not require migration”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in his statement at a ministerial-level meeting on the integration of immigrants organised by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Paris.
In Bács-Kiskun County the border section not protected with a fence is guarded by a large contingent of police officers and soldiers as well as with cutting-edge equipment. The police use thermal imaging cameras, while the Hungarian Defence Forces also deploy drones and radars, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said in Hercegszántó on Friday.
“The major investments that arrived in Hungary last year are creating over 13 thousand new workplaces, and are affording Hungary an outstanding place in the global investment rankings”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary said at a press conference on Thursday.
“Some four thousand more investments arrived in Hungary last year via the investment promotion system than in 2009, the last full year in office of the previous left-wing liberal government”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s State Secretary for Information and the International Representation of Hungary Tamás Menczer said on Friday on Hungarian M1 current affairs television. “27 investments arrived in Hungary in 2009, and 101 in 2019”, the State Secretary explained.
In a Friday morning radio interview, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán described George Soros as the world’s number one oligarch who “controls political activities via a mafia-like network and exerts influence on European politics”.
From Hungary’s point of view, it is of the utmost importance that, even after its departure from the European Union, the United Kingdom will remain committed to Europe’s security, Defence Minister Tibor Benkő stated, after he received British Ambassador to Budapest Iain Lindsay in his office on 16 January, Thursday.
The two new air passenger services to Budapest launched by Shanghai Airlines at the end of last year were given an official welcome at Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc International Airport. The first flights arrived from Shanghai via Xi'an and Chengdu on 30 and 31 December, and are taking off twice a week according to the published schedule.