“The countries of the Visegrád Group (V4) and the Baltic States all agree that the proposed reduction in EU funding available to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the post-2020 period is unacceptable”, Minister of Agriculture István Nagy said in Bábolna at the final meeting of agriculture ministers during the Hungarian Presidency of the V4.
“The economic successes of recent years would not have been realised if international companies had not given Hungary their vote of confidence, in which Bosch has also played a significant role”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed at Bosch’s plant in Miskolc at an event to celebrate the production of its one hundred millionth hand tool.
“Establishing the structure of the justice system falls within a national sphere of competence and the institutions of the European Union have no mandate to interfere in a concrete manner in the construction of this framework”, Minister of Justice László Trócsányi said in reply to questions from American news agency Bloomberg.
Minister of State for EU Relations Judit Varga from the Prime Minister’s Office held bilateral talks in Brussels and Strasbourg with several Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) regarding the so-called Sargentini report, as well as with EU Commissioner Tibor Navracsics and Polish Minister for EU Affairs Konrad Szymański.
The Hungarian-Israeli Joint Committee for Economic Cooperation held its fifth session in Zalaegerszeg and Budapest on 11-12 June. “Following the meeting between the prime ministers of the two countries last summer, the development of self-driven cars has become one of the priority areas of accelerated bilateral cooperation”, Minister for Innovation and Technology and Chair of the Committee’s Hungarian delegation László Palkovics said in summary at the plenary session of the body on 12 June in Budapest.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Prime Minister of Slovakia Peter Pellegrini held talks in Budapest on Tuesday, which Mr. Orbán described as a meeting between two countries in a successful region.
“Over 75 thousand families, meaning at least 300 thousand people, have been able to move into a better and more appealing home thanks to the home creation programme (CSOK)”, the Ministry of Human Capacities’ Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs said on Hungarian M1 television’s Monday morning current affairs program.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó spoke to Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini by telephone on Monday evening, Minister of State for Communication Tamás Menczer told Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday morning.
“Hungary is showing the way to countries who are much more affluent with relation to helping persecuted Christians”, Minister of State for Churches, Minorities and Civil Affairs Miklós Soltész from the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday in Budapest at a conference entitled The Security Situation of Religious Communities in a Changing World.
“Europe’s security is exclusively dependent on the goodwill of the Turks; Europe’s borders remain unprotected”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI after attending a meeting of foreign ministers of the member states of the Central European Initiative (CEI) in Split, Croatia.