Speaking about the attendance of Georgia and Ukraine at the current NATO summit, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that Hungary has no problem with Georgia’s NATO aspirations and fully agrees with them – just as, for example, it has always advocated the commencement of negotiations with the Macedonians.
“Hungary will definitely be fulfilling its undertaking to increase defence spending to two percent of GDP by 2024. This will be achieved sooner with relation to the military development programme”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian reporters following the two-day NATO summit it Brussels.
In Brussels on Thursday, during a break in a meeting of the heads of state and government of NATO member countries, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Hungarian public service television news channel M1 that Hungary is one of the world’s safest countries, and it must therefore pay particular attention to “not losing what we have finally created for ourselves”.
Companies from the USA have been content with Hungary; the fact that more than 1500 US-based enterprises are active in Hungary and they employ some 100 thousand people aptly shows this, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said after having a meeting in the Tesla headquarters in Fremont as head of a Hungarian business delegation.
Soldiers do not prepare for war; they enter into service for the maintenance and preservation of security and peace, Defence Minister Tibor Benkő stressed at the oath-taking ceremony of non-commissioned officers in Budapest.
The 2019 budget serves as a sound foundation for the further strengthening of Hungary, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister told the public service media on Tuesday.
According to the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, the security fence constructed along Hungary’s southern border has not only prevented illegal immigration, but has also diverted it.
“In view of the continuous challenges facing the international security system from both east and south, Hungary is increasing its contribution to NATO’s efforts”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian reporters in the recess of the two-day NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday.
By 2030 Hungary wants to be among the EU’s top five countries where it is worth living and working in, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said, who held a press conference on the latest session of the National Competitiveness Council in Budapest.
“Hungary’s position with relation to Ukraine remains unchanged”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Communication Tamás Menczer said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on the NATO summit that begins on Wednesday.