The Hungarian position is taken seriously in the fight against terrorism, György Bakondi, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s chief security advisor said in an interview given to the Hungarian news agency MTI in New York.
According to the Government Spokesperson, if the will exists, the borders can be protected. Speaking on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs program, Zoltán Kovács said the Italian measures prove that Europe’s maritime borders can also be protected.
“Hungary and Poland are representing a totally identical position with relation to migration: they regard migration as a security issue and reject the mandatory resettlement quota”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Budapest following talks with Minister for Humanitarian Aid Programmes Beata Kempa from the Polish Prime Minister’s Office.
“Hungary is capable of maintaining 4 percent economic growth, and accordingly in the upcoming years it will be successfully catching up to the Western economies to a substantial degree”, Parliamentary State Secretary Levente Magyar from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Thursday at the Exim award ceremony in Budapest.
Arriving in Brussels on Thursday for a two-day meeting of the heads of state and government of European Union Member States, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that European democracy has faltered, and therefore “we want to restore democracy in Europe”.
Parallel to double-digit income growth driven by, among other factors, the six-year wage agreement, the number of people in employment has also been rising in Hungary. Their number has increased by 750 thousand over the past eight years, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga said, commenting on the latest jobs data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).
The will of the people regarding the management of illegal immigration must prevail throughout Europe, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said at his press conference on Thursday.
According to the Staff Concluding Statement of the 2018 Article IV Mission, experts of the International Monetary Fund has found Hungary’s macro-economic situation “stable”, the economic growth of 2018 “strong” and the 2019 budget “a step in the right direction”. The IMF delegation visited Budapest on 14-26 June.
“In Central Europe, energy supply is an issue of security, and accordingly the time has come to put an end to doublespeak and to make it clear that progress will only be made with relation to Central Europe’s energy security if the required infrastructure development projects are realised using American or European Union financing”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
The Prime Ministers of the Visegrád countries – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiezki – will hold a separate meeting with French head of state Emmanuel Macron in Brussels on Thursday, ahead of the meeting of the European Council, Bertalan Havasi, the deputy state secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister, told the government news portal kormany.hu on Tuesday.