At a press conference held on 10 July in the capital, Deputy Minister Szilárd Németh, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, described next year’s budget as a budget of Hungarian families and security.
Government Spokesperson István Hollik said what happened in the European Parliament on Wednesday was unprecedented; in his view, the entire pro-immigration Hungarian opposition is completely going against the will of the Hungarian people and Hungary’s national interests.
There are unfounded claims in the EU’s recommendations regarding Hungary. It is regrettable that the European Union’s activities related to the management of the economy are watered down with politically debatable topics that are irrelevant to the subject in hand, Finance Minister Mihály Varga stated at the Brussels meeting of EU finance ministers (Ecofin).
Today Hungary and the United States promote and protect the same values, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday evening at a reception of the Budapest Embassy of the United States held in the Congress Centre in Budapest on the occasion of the national holiday of the United States, the 243rd anniversary of Independence Day.
The role of the Carpathian Basin and the Central European region in European politics is increasing.
“We must respect each other’s domestic policy decisions and the politics of interference and lecturing has to stop”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday at an unofficial meeting of foreign ministers of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the resort town of Štrbské Pleso (Csorbató) in Slovakia.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has congratulated the new prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis on his party’s election victory and his appointment as prime minister in a letter.
At the informal meeting of competitiveness ministers held in Helsinki on 5 July 2019, László György, Minister of State for Economic Strategy and Regulation of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology consulted with his colleagues with respect to issues including sustainable growth, the single market, the dynamic digital economy and the integration of modern industry policy.
Refurbishment works have already begun on the Serbian section of the Budapest-Belgrade railway line, while in Hungary preparations for the construction works have also begun. The contract for the comprehensive planning and construction of the Hungarian section was signed with the Chinese-Hungarian consortium last month, Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said on Friday in Belgrade, at a press conference that was held after the meeting of the Hungarian-Serbian-Chinese task force responsible for the development of the Budapest-Belgrade railway line.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held a meeting with Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu on the sidelines of an informal meeting of foreign ministers of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on the shores of Štrbské pleso (Lake Csorba) in Slovakia on Tuesday.