According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, it is the revenge of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Hungary has been classified as a country that deals reprehensibly with human rights activists and has been placed on a list “on which it has no business being”.
According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, the decision of the European Parliament (EP), as a result of which Article 7 proceedings could be launched against Hungary, was arrived at through cheating.
“The decision of the European Parliament on the adoption of the Sargentini Report is the petty revenge of the pro-immigration politicians”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday.
“The Ministry of Innovation and Technology is puzzled by the statement issued by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) on Tuesday, according to which negotiation between the Ministry and the Academy have come to a standstill”, the Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday in which it objected to the fact that the MTA is attempting to place pressure on the Government by issuing the statement.
According to the Government Spokesperson, the essential elements and the forces that will be facing off in the battle preceding the European Parliament (EP) elections were outlined during the debate on the Sargentini Report.
“There are currently tens of thousands of migrants on the Balkan migration route”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday morning current affairs program.
Partnership between Hungary and Vietnam has been getting more and more important in the past years. This trend is reflected in regular inter-governmental meetings and the ever stronger relations in trade, education and culture, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said in his speech addressed to participants of the 2nd Hungarian-Vietnamese Rectors’ Conference.
Following Tuesday’s European Parliament debate on the situation in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that the issue of migration is dividing the European People’s Party (EPP), which is trying to please the social democrats and liberals, so that they can form a new coalition with them following next year’s elections.
According to the Government Spokesperson, Tuesday’s European Parliament (EP) debate on the Sargentini Report and the vote on Wednesday is a mockery of the rule of law in the name of the rule of law. Speaking on Hungarian M1 television’s Tuesday evening current affairs program, Zoltán Kovács spoke about the fact that the Report includes factual errors and applies a double standard.
At the plenary session of the European parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, during the debate on the Sargentini Report, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Hungarian MEPs who are preparing to vote against Hungary that “the trouble with you is that you hate me more than you love your country.”