According to the Government Spokesperson, the issue of migrant cards raises a host of questions, including who checks the data, what the money is used for, and how criminals and people who are possibly linked to terrorism are filtered out.
At the 8th plenary meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council, held on Thursday in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán outlined the aim for Hungary to be among the European Union’s five best countries in which to live and work by 2030.
In the Parliament Building in Budapest on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Samuel Brownback, United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, spoke about planned joint action on the spread of anti-Semitism in Western Europe and on the protection of persecuted Christians.
“The United Nations Organisation and the European Commission are supporting migration processes, whereas instead assistance should be provided to the Western Balkan countries to enable them to stop illegal immigration”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Pristina on Thursday.
Balázs Orbán, Parliamentary and Strategic State Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office and Ernő Schaller-Baross, Deputy State Secretary for International Affairs had talks with members of the British government and British MPs regarding the latest developments of the process of Britain’s exit from the European Union.
“Hungary will be increasing the number of its military personnel in the KFOR, the Kosovo international peacekeeping force operating under NATO command”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday from Kosovo.
Due to a number of unclear circumstances, the government will submit official enquiries to the EU and the UN regarding the issue of migrant bank cards, said Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office at the press conference Governmentinfo.
In a letter to Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated the Polish people on the one hundredth anniversary of the restoration of Poland’s sovereignty.
“According to the position of the Hungarian Government, accelerating immigration at either European Union or UN Compact level is damaging and at odds with the interests and will of the European people”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday evening current affairs program.
“The Government will be forwarding the most important messages formulated at the forums held on the future of Europe to the European Commission and to French President Emmanuel Macron. The French President previously himself proposed that there should be a state consultation on the future of Europe in every member state”, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said in a statement to public media.