Péter Szijjártó called the Language Act adopted by Ukrainian Parliament on Thursday unacceptable. In a statement to public media, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “The Act, which violates the rights of the Hungarian national community, is indicative of the mentality of incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, who practiced anti-Hungarian politics”.
“Over two million people have received anonymous migrant cards, and the equivalent of 500 billion forints (1.55 bn euros) has been spent in this manner”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television’s Friday morning current affairs program.
The European Union can only remain competitive if its Member States preserve and strengthen their competitiveness, the Justice Minister said.
“Following the establishment of full employment, Hungary needs imports of highly developed technologies; Hungary has an interest in the freest possible global trade, and in Chinese companies realising investments in the country”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó explained on Thursday in his speech at the One Road, One Belt cooperation trade forum in Beijing.
The tender for the refurbishment of the Budapest-Belgrade railway line has been closed successfully; the winner, a Chinese-Hungarian consortium, has been announced; the quoted price is acceptable.
Chinese head of State Xi Jinping also received Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Beijing, Bertalan Havasi said.
Deputy State Secretary for the Coordination of EU Policies Pál Schmitt had talks in Riga with Latvian government officials and Members of Parliament about cooperation opportunities in the European Union.
Polish and Hungarian family policies are engaged “in a noble contest”, they both open up opportunities for the establishment of families and the births of children, Katalin Novák, Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities stressed on Wednesday in Warsaw.
In Beijing on Thursday, at talks with Prime Minister of China Li Keqiang, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that China’s Belt and Road Initiative – also known as the New Silk Road – coincides entirely with Hungarian national interests.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is providing 11 million forints in emergency humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka following the recent terrorist attacks”, the Ministry’s Parliamentary State Secretary Levente Magyar said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.