In contrast to a promise made eighteen months ago, Brussels has still not contributed a penny to Hungary’s border protection efforts, while it generously sponsors “Soros organisations” which support immigration, the government spokesperson said on Saturday at a press conference held in Budapest.
The Hungarian economy has been given another rating upgrade; Fitch has upgraded Hungary’s rating by one category, Finance Minister Mihály Varga announced. He added that today no one can deny any more that the Hungarian economy, thanks to the hard work of the Hungarian people, is doing better and better, and could increase also in the coming years.
Brussels is withholding it plans to encourage immigration, and with its plan for centralised asylum procedures it would make Hungary vulnerable to migration”, Parliamentary State Secretary Csaba Dömötör from the Prime Minister’s Office said on Kossuth Radio’s “Sunday Papers” show.
“Tens of thousands of illegal migrants have accumulated in the Western Balkans; the security situation in Bosnia is critical”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television’s Sunday evening current affairs program.
On Sunday morning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán travelled to Egypt to attend the first summit of the European Union and the League of Arab States, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
On 25 February we remember the victims of communist dictatorship, those who were executed, incarcerated and destroyed and whose only sin was that they failed to fit into the narrow boundaries of the class struggle ideology, Zoltán Kovács, Minister of State for International Communication and Relations told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
“Norway is an extremely important partner to Hungary in defence policy and energy cooperation”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Budapest on Friday following talks with Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Söreide.
On the Friday edition of the Kossuth Radio programme “Good morning, Hungary”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that immigration is at the heart of the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament (EP), and that in this regard the people have the right to know what Brussels is planning.
“The Hungarian economy is performing in an exemplary manner, including in European comparison, as also confirmed by last week’s credit rating increase”, the Ministry for Innovation and Technology’s Minister of State for Economic Strategy and Regulation László György declared at a meeting of the Competitiveness Council on 18 February in Brussels. The Minister of State held talks on the pollutant emissions of diesel cars and took part in the ministerial debates on the EU’s long-term climate strategy and artificial intelligence.
“The Tax Conference, which was convened for the second time, focused on international taxation. In addition to wanting to ensure as soon as possible that multinational companies also pay the taxes that are due to the state treasury, we would like to introduce the mandatory international tax regulations in such a way that they provide enterprises with the most favourable tax environment possible and even more foreign investors choose Hungary as their base of operations”, Minister of State for taxation Norbert Izer told Hungarian news agency MTI.