Hungarian and Austrian foreign ministers Péter Szijjártó and Alexander Schallenberg, and the Governor of the Austrian state of Burgenland, praised the ideal of freedom on Thursday outside Sopron, where they commemorated the 30th anniversary of the symbolic opening of the Iron Curtain.
Hungary has a vested interest in the election of the heads of EU institutions within the shortest possible time, but the suitability of candidates is more important than haste, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at his press conference held on Thursday in Budapest.
“The European Commission should interfere less in the application of cohesion funding, not more”, State Secretary Tamás Schanda said, amongst others, during his negotiations in Luxembourg. The Ministry for Innovation and Technology’s State Secretary for European Union Development Projects represented Hungary as a session of the General Affairs Council discussing the funding distribution regulations for the upcoming budgetary period on 25 June 2019, and at the V4+4 negotiations preceding the session.
“The rate of unemployment has fallen to 3.4 percent, the lowest level ever, from almost 12 percent in 2010, while there are currently 4.5 people in permanent employment in Hungary”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga declared with relation to the latest data from the Central Statistical Office (KSH).
“Hungary not only supports the enlargement of the European Union, but regards it as one of the most important EU policies, and it wishes to continue to work in close cooperation with Albania to curb illegal immigration”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
“Hungary and Turkey also have an interest in the dynamic development of bilateral relations within the fields of industry, research & development, and innovation”, Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics and Turkish Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank determined at their bilateral talks in Budapest on 26 June 2019.
The tenet of the Hungarian government’s humanitarian policy is that help must be taken where there is trouble, rather than bringing problems here. East Africa is one of the main sources of migration towards Europe, and therefore, as part of the Hungary Helps Programme, the cabinet will provide aid worth HUF 483 million for the Mai-Aini refugee camp operated by church organisations in Ethiopia, and a further HUF 161 million for a hospital.
“Illegal migrants are continuing to attempt to cross the Hungarian border in significant numbers”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday evening current affairs program.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will nominate Judit Varga, Minister of State for European Union Relations at the Prime Minister’s Office for Minister of Justice after the incumbent minister, László Trócsányi takes up his position as Member of the European Parliament.
“As an export-orientated state, it is in Hungary’s fundamental interests to reinforce its economic relations with Turkey”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Monday in Budapest at a press conference following the 6th session of the Turkish-Hungarian Joint Economic Committee.