“The Government and the United Hungarian Jewish Congregation (EMIH) have concluded an agreement, in accordance with which it will be recognised as a Church in the highest category”, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén announced on Sunday at the inauguration of the new synagogue in Szentendre, near Budapest.
“Another period is approaching in Europe in which they want to increase pressure on anti-immigration governments and will be attempting to push the mandatory resettlement quota down the throats of the countries of Europe once again”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Kossuth Radio’s “Sunday Paper” show on Sunday morning.
In Rome on Saturday, at a congress of the national-conservative party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia, or FdI), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary is ready to assist Italy however it can, and so if Italy is determined to defend its borders, Hungary will help in taking migrants back to their homelands. He said that the Left wants to bring in migrants.
“Neither Brussels nor any other centre can tell Hungary how many migrants it must take in”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Friday evening current affairs program.
“Investments from the East have played a major role in the dimensional transition of the Hungarian economy, as a result of which it has been able to successfully switch from a simple production orientation to an economy that is operated by technological innovations”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at the inauguration of Denso Hungary Ltd.’s new logistics centre in Székesfehérvár.
Preparations for the Budapest World Water Summit 2019 are in their final phase, and the priority topic of the three-day conference that beings on 15 October will be the prevention of a global water crisis, including finding solutions to the problems of water scarcity, water excess, and contaminated water, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement on Friday.
Parliamentary State Secretary Levente Magyar from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade held talks with several Egyptian ministers in Cairo with relation to Hungary-related business issues, including the deal concerning the shipping of railroad cars to the North African county.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will give a speech at the right-wing Atreju event in Rome on Sunday at the invitation of the leader of the Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI) party Giorgia Meloni.
State Secretary for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács held talks on the experiences of the 1989 regime change at a podium discussion in Denmark on Wednesday, amongst others with former Danish Foreign Minister Mogens Lykketoft.
“They are also viewing the coming into office of the new European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen with positive expectations in Germany”, Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás said on Thursday in evaluation of his negotiations in Düsseldorf, capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.