The government believes its most important task is to cater for survival and growth, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stated on Sunday in Budapest, at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the community centre of the Istenhegy St. Ladislaus Parish Church to be built from funding provided by the Prime Minister’s Office.
“Hungary and Brazil are applying a similar approach with relation to issues that represent a dilemma in global politics: they agree on the need to take action against migration, and regard discrimination against Christians as unacceptable”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Budapest following a meeting with Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo.
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely arrived for an official visit to Hungary and was received by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén in the Carmelite building of the Prime Minister’s Office in Budapest on Monday.
“The state of the budget is stable and balanced thanks to the performance of the Hungarian economy and the increasing revenues being realised despite the tax cuts”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga declared.
The EU must respect national specificities and national sovereignty, the national identities of Member States “because Europe in itself is a complex continent, and there cannot be a single way of thinking in it,” Justice Minister László Trócsányi stressed at a conference on Thursday in Budapest.
“Never before has there been so much at stake at or so much significance to the EP elections, because European citizens can provide responses to real issues, and their decision will affect their everyday lives”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Budapest at a conference organised by the National University of Public Service.
“As the closest safe country, Lebanon has admitted some one and a half million Syrian refugees, but it would like them to return home as soon as possible so that the country can maintain its stability. The Hungarian Government supports this idea and is assisting its realisation, because maintaining stability in the countries of the Middle East is also in Hungary’s interests”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday following negotiations in Beirut.
“The European Union has become extremely misguided compared to the original concept, as exemplified by the fact that they are saying they will punish anyone who disobeys them or thinks differently”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday evening current affairs program.
In Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that in every European country the main issue in the European Parliament elections is migration. He said that one of the most important questions for the future is whether Europe will succeed in narrowing the divergence in opinions on immigration and restore European unity – although so far not a single such attempt has met with success.
The Hungary Helps Programme, which coordinates the Hungarian government’s humanitarian efforts in crisis regions, is recognised in North Rhine-Westphalia, Tristan Azbej, Minister of State of the Prime Minister’s Office for Helping Persecuted Christians said on Tuesday assessing his visit to the most populous state of Germany.