On Thursday afternoon the Prime Minister’s press chief, Bertalan Havasi, informed Hungarian news agency MTI that, on behalf of the Hungarian people, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had sent a letter of condolence to French president Emmanuel Macron and the French nation following the death of former President of France Jacques Chirac.
According to the Government Information Centre and the larger governing party, Fidesz, pro-immigration politicians are preventing the appointment of László Trócsányi to the post of European Commissioner.
“Hungary is to become involved in projects relating to the electric highway being developed by the German state of Baden-Württemberg”, Minister of Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said on Wednesday in Stuttgart, the state’s capital.
The Ministry of Human Capacities’ State Secretary for Family and Youth Affairs Katalin Novák held bilateral talks in the Vatican on Wednesday, where she presented the goals and results of the Hungarian Government’s family policy to Catholic leaders.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó concluded an economic cooperation agreement with Governor of the U.S. state of West Virginia Jim Justice on Tuesday.
Hungary is cooperating with Italy when it comes to border protection and the expulsion of illegal immigrants, but cannot be a partner to the resettlement quotas of migrants, according to György Bakondi. The Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister gave a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI at the Roman Senate during a conference on stopping human trafficking at the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, referring to the fact that the Malta agreement, which calls for the distribution of migrants rescued at sea in Europe, raises serious security questions.
“Migration is a jackpot for terrorist organisations in view of the fact that terrorists can easily hide amidst the waves of uncontrolled migration”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in New York at a UN discussion on terrorism.
“Hungary is committed to the peaceful use of nuclear energy”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in New York at a conference on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty on Wednesday.
“In international diplomacy, we must strive to ensure that water-related conflicts do not become another security threat to the world”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at the accompanying event devoted to water management of the current session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in New York on Wednesday to discuss the details of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s planned visit to Budapest on 30 October.