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Our Visegrád partners are ready to help with Hungary’s border protection efforts

The Prime Minister, October 17, 2019 10:00 PM

If the re-intensifying flow of migration sets out from Turkey for Europe, rather than for Syria, then the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia are ready to provide help with the protection of Hungary’s borders, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI after the Brussels consultation of the leaders of the Visegrád countries ahead of the EU summit on Thursday.

The issue of water connects us

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 17, 2019 9:00 PM

“The issue of water connects us, because we use the Earth’s water stocks together, and accordingly we are jointly responsible for preserving their quantity and quality”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at the Budapest Water Summit on Thursday.

Brussels is attempting to exert pressure via funding policy

Ministry for Innovation and Technology, October 17, 2019 9:00 PM

“Brussels cannot have an effect on areas that fall within a national sphere of competence, such as education, healthcare, or social policy, but it does interfere by including into funding policy conditions that serve Western European goals and interests”, the Ministry of Innovation and Technology’s Parliamentary State Secretary Tamás Schanda said at a professional conference in Budapest on Thursday.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Africa have access to clean drinking water thanks to Hungarian technologies

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 17, 2019 9:00 PM

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with African water ministers on the sidelines of the Budapest Water Summit; hundreds of thousands of people in Africa have access to clean drinking water with the help of Hungarian technologies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s chief press officer Máté Paczolay said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday. In recent years, Hungarian water industry enterprises have achieved major results on the African continent, the press chief pointed out.

Cooperative Security 2019: Joint Defence

Ministry of Defence, October 17, 2019 8:00 PM

The Cooperative Security 2019 international migration crisis handling exercises at the Újmajor training area near Veszprém came to a successful close on Thursday 17 October. During the exercises, military personnel from the participating countries practiced the prevention and handling of a possible mass migration emergency.

Family programmes await everyone on Hungary’s upcoming national holiday

Government spokesperson, October 17, 2019 4:18 PM

“The operative body responsible for the secure organisation of the 23 October national holiday has authorised the related security plan”, the body’s head announced at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.

Péter Szijjártó receives water ministers

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, October 17, 2019 4:06 PM

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó discussed the business opportunities inherent in Hungarian water-related technologies with the ministers of water of Laos and Kuwait, and North Macedonia’s minister of environment, whom he received in his office on Thursday on the sidelines of the 2019 Budapest Water Summit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.

No decision yet on whether Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will deliver a speech on 23 October

Prime Minister’s Office, October 17, 2019 4:03 PM

Whether – according to long-standing traditions – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will deliver a ceremonial speech on 23 October depends on international events; more specifically, on the development of the Brexit process, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief said on Thursday in response to the enquiry of the Hungarian news agency MTI.

Sustainable transport is important

Ministry for Innovation and Technology, October 17, 2019 1:59 PM

Sustainability, also declared in the European Commission’s new action plan, which can be achieved in transport through the reduction of the emission of pollutants is important, the Minister of State for Transport Policy of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology said on Wednesday on the public service television news channel M1.

Water Summit – Global Green Growth Institute to open a central European office in Hungary

Ministry for Innovation and Technology, October 17, 2019 1:56 PM

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) will open a central European office in Hungary; the agreement was signed at the Budapest Water Summit by Péter Kaderják, Minister of State of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology and Frank Rijsberman, Director-General of GGGI’s European office.