The Minister of State for Helping Persecuted Christians and the Implementation of the Hungary Helps Programme at the Prime Minister’s Office paid a visit to the West African country a few days after – on the First Sunday of Advent – armed Islamist terrorists attacked a Christian church and killed 14 innocent believers.
The Hungary Helps Agency and the Hungarian Kolping Association signed a cooperation framework agreement in the presence of His Holiness Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
This year 13,000 people have tried to enter Hungary illegally, while last year during the whole year only 6,000 attempted to do so.
“The latest expert opinion issued by the Venice Commission has once again made it clear that the Language Act adopted during the period in office of the previous Ukrainian President strips national communities of their existing, previously acquired rights with relation to the use of their native languages”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Saturday.
We will do everything we can to protect the Hungarian border fence and the security of the Hungarian people.
“Although we cannot talk about a recession, the rate of growth of the global economy is experiencing a slowdown. The industrial performance of our most important partner, Germany, has fallen, and accordingly the government will be introducing further economy protection measures from the beginning of next year”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said on Friday in Budapest at a Christmas event organised by Gránit Bank.
Hungary and Japan have a vested interest in each other’s success, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Friday in Tokyo.
At the opening of the new Hungarian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said: “Cultural cooperation represents an outstanding hinterland for the development of political and economic relations”.
“The significance of Central Europe has increased continuously in recent years, and it has become the engine of European economic growth”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in Tokyo.
“Unified and effective action against money laundering and terrorism is in the common interests of every member state of the European Union, but Hungary remains against the unwarranted removal of spheres of competence from national authorities”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga emphasised at today’s meeting of the EU’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN).