On Monday afternoon in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Charles Michel, the new elected President of the European Council.
Defence Minister Tibor Benkő received Colonel General Milan Mojsilovic at a courtesy visit. The Serbian chief of staff came to Hungary at the invitation of Lieutenant General Ferenc Korom, Commander of the Hungarian Defence Forces.
“Hungary could start hosting MotoGP races beginning in 2022”, Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics announced at Saturday’s rounds of the European Rally Championships taking place in and around Nyiregyhaza.
Turkey is a key player in European security.
The finals of World Robot Olympiad (WRO) world robot construction and programming competition began on Friday evening in Győr with the participation of contestants from 74 countries. This is the first time the global competition has been held in Europe.
“The application opportunities and economic effects of unmanned aircraft are significant in global comparison, and accordingly Hungary is also striving to achieve a leading tole in the development of drone technology”, Minister for innovation and Technology László Palkovics declared on Friday at the HungaroControl drone conference in Budapest.
“The issue of enlargement has been placed in good hands with the fact that it has transpired that the question of the enlargement of the European Union and neighbourhood policy will fall under the sphere of competence of the Hungarian EU commissioner during the upcoming years”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI, adding: “Enlargement policy could gain new impetus as a result”.
Tree planting is one of the answers of the Ministry of Agriculture to climate change, Minister of Agriculture István Nagy stated on Friday in Mosonmagyaróvár at the tree planting event of the National Programme for Creating Woodland.
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will open a contact office in Hungary; the agreement on the foundation of the office was signed by Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics and EASA Executive Director Patrick Ky on 8 November 2019 in Budapest.
Hungarians in Transcarpathia are an abandoned ethnic group in a difficult situation which has every reason to demand the support of the Hungarian government of the day.