According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, the greatest lie told by Brussels so far has been revealed in the document prepared by the European Commission’s Legal Service on the consequences of the UN Global Compact for Migration adopted in December.
In Poland on Sunday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the role of NATO is being enhanced, because today Europe’s security is fragile.
On Sunday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Defence Minister Tibor Benkő will travel to Poland where they will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Visegrád countries’ NATO accession together with their Czech, Slovak and Polish counterparts.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó promised to defend Hungarian communities at the plenary session of the Forum of Hungarian MPs of the Carpathian Basin in the Parliament Building in Budapest on Friday.
On the Friday edition of the Kossuth Radio programme “Good morning, Hungary”, Prime Minister and President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán said that pro-immigration forces in the European People’s Party (EPP) have attacked Fidesz and are seeking to transform the entire EPP into a pro-immigration international organisation. He noted, however, that the Hungarian people want to prevent this happening.
In an interview in a book published this week by French politician and essayist Philippe de Villiers, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is quoted as saying that “Not even in our worst nightmares did we think that, twenty-nine years after our enchained nations gained freedom and the continent reunited, Europe would again be vulnerable to imperial ambitions – those which this time do not originate outside its borders, but within them.”
Four points of the seven-item family protection action plan – the prenatal baby support, the extension of the family housing scheme ‘csok’, the rules relating to the cancellation of debts and the car purchase support for large families – will enter into force on 1 July, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office announced at the press conference Governmentinfo.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó received Croatian Minister for Energy Tomislav Ćorić on Thursday. The parties agreed that the security of Central Europe’s energy supply remains one of the most important regional risks, and accordingly they confirmed their commitment to deepening Hungarian-Croatian energy cooperation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
At a press conference in Budapest on Thursday, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás said that Fidesz is a member of the European People’s Party (EPP) and wants to remain so. He added that the parties which are attacking Fidesz are those which voted for immigration quotas.
“The French GMD Group will be establishing a vehicle parts plant in Dorog with an investment of 14.5 billion forints (EU 46 million), towards which the Government has provided 2.9 billion forints (EUR 9.2 million) in non-returnable funding”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.