“Technological modernisation and a change of mindset are not only essential for the future of agriculture, but are also being forced by changes in nature and agriculture”, Minister of Agriculture István Nagy said on Friday in Kalocsa.
Automotive industry manufacturer Ford has opened a new service centre in Budapest. At the opening ceremony, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed that that the new facility means Ford’s largest administrative centre in Europe is being established in Hungary.
“It is highly welcome that there are more and more Hungarian investors in the country, and that while in 2016 German and American companies were the largest investors in Hungary, the Hungarians have come up into second place, and during the first half of this year the most investments were realised by Hungarian enterprises”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Miskolc at the inauguration of the new plant constructed by large tool design and manufacturing company Spinto Hungary Limited.
“The United States Government has also recognised that Hungarian migration and humanitarian policy is correct from all perspectives and from a moral, practical and economic approach”, head of the State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians of the Prime Minister’s Office Tristan Azbej said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI in Washington.
Speaking about the bodies of the European Union on Friday morning’s Kossuth Radio programme “180 Minutes”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “They want to take away Hungary’s right to defend its own borders”, and that “they want to send mercenaries here from Brussels and would let in migrants”.
Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said with relation to the adoption of the Sargentini Report that it concerns countries, not governments; they are trying to convict a country in a show trial based on ideas that are the result of political motivations.
“The fact that on Wednesday the European Parliament voted to adopt the Sargentini Report on the state of the rule of law in Hungary with a two-thirds majority contravened European Union law from several perspectives”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said in an interview on BBC World Service radio on Thursday.
“In the assessment of the Hungarian Government, the European Parliament (EP) did not adopt the Sargentini Report with the required two-thirds majority”, Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás said at this week’s “Government Info” press conference.
“Railways are being afforded precedence within transport development”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at the Hungrail Hungarian Rail Association Conference in Budapest.
“Hungary has made it clear that Europe should not admit a single illegal immigrant, but African countries that help ensure that illegal immigrants do not come to Europe must be supported, and Uganda is one such country”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Thursday.