“It is in Hungary’s interests and Hungary is calling for the establishment of a European-American-Chinese agreement on how world trade may be kept free and equitable, and particularly on how to avoid a global trade war”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, who is on a three-day official visit to China, said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
Europe is facing very serious problems, such as migration, economic development and the enlargement of the European Union. At the same time, the European Commission would withdraw funds from EU policies which have their contractual purposes, Szabolcs Takács, Minister of State for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday in Zagreb.
Hungary is prepared to support the border protection efforts of the countries lying on the new migration route even with the deployment of police forces, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Thursday on the public service television news channel M1.
Representatives of the Visegrád Group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, the V4) and the Pacific Alliance (PA), incorporating Chile, Columbia, Mexico and Peru, met for the first time on 5 June 2018 at a meeting organised by the current Hungarian presidency of the V4.
China will be realising a 45 billion forint (EUR 141 million) power plant project in Hungary, in addition to which air passenger links between the two countries could also be expanded”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, who is currently on an official visit to China, said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács protested against the playing of the anti-Semitism card in a brief letter to the editor published in the newspaper The Globe and Mail after the Canadian newspaper wrote in an article on 1 June that Hungary’s non-Christian minorities appear to be at risk.
According to Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács, an article published by American news agency Bloomberg on 1 June, asserting that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “is the key figure in a populist wave creating tensions that threaten to divide Europe”, paints a skewed picture of Hungary.
The World Bank revised its former GDP growth estimate of January 2018 for Hungary upward, by 0.3 percentage points.
In Q1 2018, Hungary’s GDP grew by 4.4 percent, the same rate shown by preliminary data. Data adjusted for seasonal and working day effects, which better reflect underlying trends, show an even higher increase of 4.7 percent.
In addition to reducing taxes, boosting the economy, strengthening families and implementing a demographic programme, the most important goal of next year’s budget will be to preserve the country’s sovereignty and to strengthen border protection, for the purposes of which we will allocate a significant amount of funds, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence told the newspaper Magyar Idők. Szilárd Németh also said the Hungarian Defences Forces will be one of the winners of next year’s budget.