In the first six days of the year, some 900 prohibited border-crossing attempts were made on the Hungarian-Serbian, Hungarian-Croatian and Hungarian-Romanian border sections, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on the public service television news channel M1 on Wednesday morning.
“Thanks to the measures introduced in recent years, students attending higher education institutions are able to acquire knowledge that is internationally competitive”, Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said at his year-launching press conference in Budapest on Tuesday.
“Hungary is funding Vietnam’s economic and social development through tied aid loans, and is cooperating with Vietnam to increase tourism, and within the fields of vocational training and family funding”, State Secretary for Family and Youth Affairs Katalin Novák from the Ministry of Human Capacities said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Hanoi on Monday.
The government is spending two and a half times as much money on culture compared to 2010: in 2019 it spent 453 billion forints (EUR 1.37 billion) on this field, and this year the funding available could reach 578 billion forints (EUR 1.75 billion).
“Stopping illegal migration remains the greatest challenge for Hungary and Europe”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary said at a press conference in Budapest on Monday.
“Migration pressure is steadily increasing, and for this reason we are increasing the Hungarian Defence Force presence on the southern border”, Deputy Defence Minister and the Ministry’s Parliamentary State Secretary Szilárd Németh announced at a press conference on Sunday in Madaras.
Hungary condemns the attack on the US embassy in Baghdad, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Saturday.
On Sunday evening, at the invitation of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will attend the ceremonial opening of the refurbished Prague State Opera House.
The Hungarian government has a vested interest in restoring good neighbourly relations with Ukraine, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed on Wednesday in response to the fact that in his New Year’s address Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said a few words in the mother tongues of Ukraine’s national communities, including in Hungarian.
Also internationally we must do everything we can to combat illegal migration, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on the Monday evening programme of the public service television news channel M1.