Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó received the CEO of Gazprom in his office on Monday, the Ministry said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
The pressure of migration is intensifying at Hungary’s Southern border section; between January and November this year, more than 11,400 people attempted to cross the Hungarian border illegally, while last year during the same period only 5.400 did, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Sunday Paper’.
Protecting the environment and the fight against climate change is important to Hungary in view of the fact that we would all like clean water, purer air and a more tolerable climate. Climate change can only be countered through action, and Hungary is acting accordingly: in recent years we have introduced measures that are exemplary even by European Union standards, and are moving towards the targets we have set successfully and consistently.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó received President of the International Investment Bank Nikolay Kosov in Budapest on Friday, following which the Bank held its first board meeting supplemented by the ambassadors of the owning countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
“Last year was a record year for tourism, and all tourism-related records will be broken once again this year”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at the official opening of the Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest on Friday in the Hungarian capital.
The amendment of the government decree on the energy efficiency characteristics of buildings will finally remove the obstacles from the wider spread of district heating services among new retail, service provider and industrial consumers, Péter Kaderják, Minister of State for Energy Affairs and Climate Policy at the Ministry for Innovation and Technology announced at a press conference held in Budapest on Friday.
“We must expect permanent and continuously increasing migration pressure”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in Budapest. The Minister issued a statement to reporters following his annual hearing before Parliament’s National Security Committee.
Two tunnels dug for the purposes of crossing under the Serbian-Hungarian border have been blocked.
Hungary supports the goals of the Croatian EU presidency, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Thursday in Eszék (Osijek), Croatia after a working lunch with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.
On Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is travelling to Lausanne, Switzerland where, at the invitation of President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach he will have talks with IOC leaders and will visit the organisation’s new head office.