Hungary continues to need an anti-immigration policy; “Hungarians can only be replaced with Hungarians,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated at the 9th plenary session of the Hungarian Diaspora Council held on Thursday in the Castle Garden Bazaar in Budapest.
Local governments must primarily use their local trade tax revenues for financing local public transport, and in the future this will be committed to a law.
On Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén received in his office Francesco Patton, Custos of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land who is currently in Hungary for a visit. The meeting was also attended by Franciscan Provincial Márton Benedek Dobszay, Jakab Várnai, Rector of the Sapientia College of Theology of Religious Orders, and Tristan Azbej, Minister of State for Helping Persecuted Christians and the Implementation of the Hungary Helps Programmes.
In a message Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered his condolences to Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini due to the tragic coach accident that occurred in Nyitragerencsér (Nitrianske Hrnciarovce), Slovakia, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday evening.
Hungary and France agree on a number of important issues regarding European affairs, Justice Minister Judit Varga told the Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone after she conducted high-level talks in Paris on Tuesday.
The government will present to Parliament a number of bills which serve to protect the Hungarian economy, Hungarian families and the security of Hungary.
“Hungarian-Serbian political, economic, trade and investment relations have never before been so strong”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday in Budapest at a press conference following the tenth session of the Hungarian-Serbian Joint Economic Committee.
“Thanks to its achievements within the field of state-of-the-art technology, Hungary has been given the opportunity to take part in one of China’s most important hi-tech events as guest of honour”, Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Shenzhen in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong after opening the Hungarian pavilion at the 21st China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF) innovation and technology expo.
A legislative package has been prepared with a view to simplifying the operation of metropolitan and county government offices. The goal is to provide fast and effective public administration based on trust, the Minister of State for Public Administration of the Prime Minister’s Office announced.
“Based on the latest figures, it may be stated that the measures introduced to support the construction industry are successful. The government’s target is to support the sustainable development of the construction industry based on modern technology, in the interests of enabling this determining sector of Hungarian industry to successfully fulfil the increasing volume of orders”, Parliamentary State Secretary Tamás Schanda from the Ministry for Innovation and Technology said in assessment of the latest data published by the Central Statistical Office (KSH).