Hungary’s Defence Minister Tibor Benkő continued his commemorative visit to Russia in Hungarian Central Military Cemeteries I and II in Boldyrevka and Rudkino. At the commemoration, the Minister drew attention to the importance of paying our respects to those who died as heroes in wars and fostering their memory.
The Hungarian government bows before the life’s work of historian and writer John Lukacs, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday by telephone from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, where he attended the memorial service held in memory of John Lukacs.
The question of our survival is not what kind of border stones will be hurled in our way, but whether we are planning a Hungarian future for our children as well, Minister of State for Nation Policy Árpád János Potápi said at the commemoration held at Kossuth tér in Budapest on the occasion of the Day of National Cohesion.
The latest government securities intended for members of the public issued under the name Hungarian Government Securities Plus – which will offer higher gains than any other government securities in the past – will be available for subscription from 3 June 2019, Finance Minister Mihály Varga announced.
The Hungarian Defence Forces are returning to the borders for the summer months, Deputy Minister Szilárd Németh, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence announced on 1 June, Saturday, in Budapest.
“The countries of Central Europe are the clear winners of the new world order that has developed as a result of global economic and global political changes”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó emphasised on Wednesday in Ljubljana at the business forum held on the sidelines of the summit of heads of state of the Three Seas Initiative, which includes the 12 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has had talks with the head of Myanmar’s Government Aung San Suu Kyi. The subjects covered in the talks were illegal immigration and bilateral economic, educational and cultural relations. The Prime Minister received the State Counsellor in his office in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán paid a visit to the Museum of the Hungarian Language in Széphalom where he laid a wreath at Hungarian language reformer Ferenc Kazinczy’s grave.
“Hungary has special respect for those who place their nation’s interests first and are also prepared to make sacrifices for it”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Wednesday in Budapest.
“Migration has increased along the Balkan migration route; according to the latest statistics from the National Police Headquarters the number of people apprehended each week along the Hungarian-Serbian border is currently two hundred, following an average of one hundred in the previous period”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday morning current affairs program.