Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has met with the world’s most important leaders in recent weeks, has completed a record month in diplomacy, Tamás Menczer, Minister of State for Communication and Hungary’s International Image at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said at his press conference held on Wednesday.
According to Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács, there is political pressure behind the infringement procedure instituted against Hungary due to the “Stop Soros” legislative package.
According to the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office, the 2019 budget adopted by Parliament last week serves wage increases and economic growth, and also contains tax reductions.
The Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office referred to the fact that the European Commission instituted infringement proceedings against Hungary due to the “Stop Soros” legislative package as unacceptable and as an attack.
In the future the amount of the family housing benefit (csok) will increase in settlements with a population of less than five thousand, and the government is planning a considerable increase also in the case of used properties in those communities, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday in the context of the launch of the Hungarian Villages Programme.
At a joint press conference in Podgorica on Tuesday, after a meeting with Montenegrin prime minister Duško Marković, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered Hungary’s assistance in managing Montenegro’s migration-related difficulties.
“The serial production of electric engines has begun at Audi Hungaria’s automotive plant in Győr”, Chairman of the Board of Audi Hungaria Achim Heinfling announced at an event held to mark the occasion on Tuesday.
“Hungary has officially announced its exit from the adoption process of the UN Global Compact for Migration”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Tuesday.
“The Hungarian consular service is in continuous contact with the Greek authorities, and according the latest information provided no Hungarians have been affected by the fires”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
“The stability of the Balkans is also a European security issue”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi emphasised on Hungarian M1 television’s Monday evening current affairs program.