“The Hungarian Government has concluded an agreement in Mongolia concerning a 57-million-dollar vaccine production plant investment, and Eximbank has opened a 46-million-dollar credit line to help enable Hungarian water management and mining industry enterprises that have already accumulated a high level of market experience to acquire an even larger share of the market in the Asian country”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI following negotiations in Ulaanbaatar.
Only those countries are able to defend their independence which are able to face reality, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a reception held on the terrace of the Carmelite Monastery in the company of invited politicians and artists.
At the Tuesday meeting of the General Affairs Council held in Luxembourg – which was attended by Judit Varga, Minister of State for European Union Relations of the Prime Minister’s Office, together with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó – the attendees discussed the enlargement of the EU, the next multiannual financial framework and preparations for the June meeting of the European Council.
“In addition to supporting families, the 2020 budget is also about protecting the economic results achieved so far and continuing tax reductions”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said on Wednesday in Parliament.
In the European parliamentary (EP) elections, those political forces achieved the best results which were attacked most vehemently in recent years, or even in the weeks right before the vote, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stated at a conference in Budapest organised by the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
“The construction of the Croatian liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal on the island of Krk is in Hungary’s interests”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Zagreb following talks with Croatian Minister of Environment and Energy Tomislav Ćorić.
Defence Minister Tibor Benkő mainly spoke about the security situation and the development of the defence forces at the annual hearing held by Parliament’s National Security and Defence and Policing Committees on 18 June, Tuesday, in the capital.
“The fact that no decision was made on the commencement of accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia at the meeting of the relative ministers of the European Union’s member states on Tuesday in Luxembourg goes against the interests of the EU, Central Europe and Hungary”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared.
The image of family relayed by media to young people, the values they discover through that image, and the way family life is presented to them are not irrelevant, the Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Human Capacities said at the conference Media in the Service of Families held in Budapest on Tuesday.
Great emphasis has been assigned to EU affairs in the government’s operation, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at a hearing held in Parliament’s Justice Committee on Tuesday.