“The pro-immigration forces are continuously attacking Hungary under the leadership of French President Emmanuel Macron, but no matter how great the pressure the Government will take on this battle in the interests of Hungary and Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held bilateral talks with British Deputy Prime Minister David Lidington, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
“We take exception to people explaining in a colonial tone who is entitled to EU funding and who isn’t”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs program, referring to statements by members of the French Government.
“The reason migrants are not flooding though Hungary is that the institutional system and border protection are working”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs programme with relation to the fact that a few days ago the Hungarian Government extended the crisis situation introduced because of immigration.
In future, in case of a potential avian flu epidemic Japan will not impose restrictions on poultry products originating from all territories of Hungary, but only on products from the infected areas.
“ZF’s new investment clearly shows that the world’s largest, most competitive and most rapidly developing corporations regard Hungary as a place where it is worth investing”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at ZF Hungary Ltd.’s factory inauguration in Eger on Thursday.
“The French and Luxembourgian foreign ministers still want the illegal immigrants to be mandatorily distributed among the member states of the European Union”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
“For strategic and security policy reasons, Hungary is calling for the further enlargement of the European Union with the Western Balkan states”, Minister of State for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács from the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
According to Minister of Finance Mihály Varga, there may be no point in negotiations on the upcoming EU budget with the current European Commission in view of the fact that following the 2019 European Parliament elections a new body will be formed, and its President is not expected to be called Jean-Claude Juncker.
Economic and social progress in the CEE region is essential for a successful EU cohesion policy, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said at the Krynica Economic Forum, where countries involved discussed the elaboration of the EU Carpathian Region Macro-regional Strategy.