At an event marking the reopening of the refurbished Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that for Christian, Hungarian and European culture to survive, its adherents must now defend their cultural essence, identity and sovereignty in the vortex of Europe’s cultural war.
The Ministry of Agriculture published three new calls for tenders of a total budget of around HUF 63 billion based on available rural development funding. The tenders are aimed at supporting food processing and wine-making, organic farming and the restructuring of the small ruminant dairy industry. Organic farmers may count on another call for tenders of HUF 12 billion under the recently announced calls. Subsidy decisions had already been made in this field in 2016, when the Managing Authority awarded support totalling HUF 62 billion to some 2200 applications.
The Hungarian Diaspora Council will meet on 15 November, while the plenary session of the Hungarian Standing Conference will be held the following day in the Castle Garden Bazaar in Budapest, the Minister of State for National Policy announced. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will address both gatherings.
“Over the past four and a half years, Jean-Claude Juncker has proven that he is unfit to head the European Commission”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
On 29 October 2018, a passenger aircraft belonging to Indonesian airline Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea.
In the Parliament Building Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Hunor Kelemen had talks about the tasks related to the congress of the European People’s Party to be held in Helsinki in November. At the meeting the parties also reviewed the common Transylvanian development plans, Bertalan Havasi announced.
The liberal, socialist claim that there is no longer migration is “clearly false”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said.
A passion for traditions and national identity ties Hungarian and Jewish people together, and a conclusion of 1956, that is valid to this day, is that it is always worth fighting for freedom and national independence, Szabolcs Takács said at the commemoration held at the Hungarian Embassy in Tel Aviv on the occasion of the anniversary of the 1956 revolution.
The national consultation on the protection of families will start within days, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said on Sunday at a press conference held in Budapest.
Justice Minister László Trócsányi attended a panel discussion at the global international forum World Policy Conference held in Rabat on Friday, 26 October 2018. As part of the discussion, Jean-Francois Copé, Mayor of Meaux and former minister, Jim Hoagland, associate editor of The Washington Post and Polish Senator Bogdan Klich spoke about the issues of migration and multiculturalism.