In a video message posted on his Facebook account, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that in a stormy session during the Brussels summit Hungary had managed to repel an attack aimed at ensuring that migrants would be given more money and more rights.
“Hungary is continuously looking for alternative opportunities with which to increase its energy security and diversify its procurement sources, and accordingly it regards the Cypriot gas to be extracted from the Aphrodite gas field as a realistic alternative, and the two countries have now concluded a bilateral energy agreement with relation to this”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in his inaugural speech at the new Hungarian Consulate in Nicosia.
“Protecting the acquired rights of Hungarians living in the United Kingdom is a priority for the Hungarian Government”, the State Secretary for International Communications and Relations declared on Hungarian M1 television’s Friday morning current affairs program.
Hungary’s Minister of Interior evaluated the experiences gained from the unannounced demonstration on 12 December on Kossuth Square in Budapest at an operative meeting. In the name of the Government, Dr. Sándor Pintér expressed his thanks for the tenacity of law enforcement personnel.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó inaugurated a Consulate in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh on Thursday. The foreign representation will facilitate the development of Hungarian-Scottish relations, he emphasised.
The migrant visa increases the threat of terrorist attacks; it increases the risk of acts of terrorism being perpetrated by people coming from migrant backgrounds such as the recent Strasbourg incident, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at his press conference held on Thursday in Budapest.
“We are taking the threat of terrorism and the people’s security seriously, and accordingly the Government and the National Security Cabinet have decided that beginning on Thursday the Counter Terrorism Centre (TEK) and military police units from the Hungarian Defence Force will be reinforcing the protection of Christmas fairs”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has arrived in Brussels where he will first attend the summit of the European People’s Party (EPP), Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
“The Washington Post neglected a number of important questions and details in its article last week on the ‘ousting’ of the Central European University (CEU) from Hungary”, State Secretary for International Communications and Relations Zoltán Kovács from the Prime Minister’s Office underlined in a letter to the editor published in Wednesday’s edition of the American daily.
Today in Parliament we have adopted two important laws which will elevate the cause of defence, and will result in the transformation and reinforcement of the Hungarian Defence Forces and the development of an efficient and modern army”, Szilárd Németh said at a press conference.