Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó opened a consular office in the Maltese capital of Valletta on Wednesday.
Under Olivér Várhelyi’s leadership, the enlargement portfolio will strengthen the European Union, Minister of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács wrote in a post on Twitter on Wednesday, criticising the opposition for trying to prevent the Hungarian candidate’s appointment as commissioner.
“We should not be talking about the readmittance of foreign fighters who joined the Islamic State, but about their punishment”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday in summary of his speech at a UN Security Council debate in New York.
“Resolving conflicts requires sincerity and mutual respect to return to international dialogue”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday in New York, where he took part in an event organised by the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration.
The rule of law is increasingly used as “a political weapon” which will eventually “discredit it as a generally shared value,” Justice Minister Judit Varga highlighted in an article published on the website of the news network Euronews on Tuesday.
“A joint Hungarian-American fund has been established to fund the exports of small and medium-sized enterprises to the American market”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from New York on Tuesday.
“Hungary is the EU’s most rapidly developing country”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga declared in an interview for Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet. In the interview, which was published in Monday’s edition of the paper, Mr. Varga said the government has already begun drawing up the second Economy Protection Action Plan, and a decision on the new measures is expected during the first half of next year.
The government welcomes the latest development that the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has approved the appointment of Olivér Várhelyi as EU commissioner. The Hungarian opposition’s machinations have failed; they did everything they could to ensure that Hungary should not have an EU commissioner, but they have failed.
“Waves of migration from Africa can only be prevented through the provision of suitable levels of development funding to African countries, to enable them to keep their population in place”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday after receiving Ugandan Minister of Security Gen. Elly Tumwine.
“Hungary and Estonia are taking joint action to ensure that the international community wants to stop migration, not encourage it”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in Budapest.