Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is conducting intensive talks in Brussels, ahead of the Tuesday working meeting of the European Council, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief told the government website kormany.hu. The Tuesday meeting was originally scheduled for 11.00 a.m. but it had not yet started by three in the afternoon.
“According to the Hungarian Government, Europe needs leaders who respect European culture and the nations of Europe”, State Secretary Tamás Menczer from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade emphasised at the annual conference of the Hungarian cultural diplomacy network in Budapest on Tuesday.
The Western Balkans region continues to remain the main area of Hungary’s peacekeeping responsibilities, the Defence Minister said on Tuesday in Budapest.
“Anti-Hungarian voices and outbursts amongst the Romanian political elite have increased, which is unacceptable, and action must be taken against it”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday in Parliament.
“No decision can be made with the circumvention of the Visegrád Group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, the V4)”, State Secretary for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács said on Hungarian M1 television’s Monday evening current affairs program.
It would in itself be sufficient reason to reject Frans Timmermans because he is George Soros’s man; but in addition to that, the members of the Visegrád Group (V4) do not support Timmermans’ nomination as President of the Commission because they think that “he is an ideological warrior and fights against anyone whose view of the world is different from his way of thinking”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a statemen to international news agency V4NA at the emergency EU summit.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Eötvös Loránd University have concluded a cooperation agreement.
“Increasing anti-Hungarian sentiment could also influence Hungary’s position on Romania, as well as some decisions”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Monday in Budapest following a press conference on another topic.
The Chinese company will reinforce its role in the development of the Hungarian infocommunications sector, the declaration of intent signed by Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics and Wu Biqiang, Chief Executive of Huawei Technologies Hungary on 1 July 2019 in Budapest reads.
“South Korean Inzi Controls will be constructing a battery manufacturing plant in Komárom with an investment of 14.8 billion forints (EUR 45.7 million)”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in Budapest at a press conference to officially announce the investment project.