According to the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, “there is no doubt” that immigration – whether according to the quotas, or illegally via the borders – increases the threat of terrorism.
On the Kossuth Radio programme “Sunday News”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the main issue at stake in Hungary’s parliamentary election on 8 April is whether Hungary will become an immigrant state, or if it will manage to preserve its security, European culture and way of life.
Minister of State for Security Policy and International Cooperation Dr István Mikola attended and delivered a speech at a panel discussion concerning the future of Western Balkans states at the 6th Global Baku Forum held in Baku between 14 and 17 March 2018.
In the next few years we will continue to have to engage in extended international debates in a number of areas, and also for this reason it is not irrelevant who will take charge of the country between 2018 and 2022, the Justice Minister stressed at a Budapest forum organised for members of the public on Monday, highlighting that today Hungary has a strong international reputation.
Without Macedonia’s efforts Hungary would be in a much more difficult situation regarding the protection of its southern borders, Interior Minister Sándor Pintér stated after he signed an agreement on police cooperation between the two states with his Macedonian counterpart.
“The legislative package controls organisations that are performing activities against the country, and accordingly protects national interests”, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson said on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday morning show.
In a video posted on his Facebook page on Friday morning, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that discussion of the mandatory migrant quota issue at the current EU summit had been postponed, and so Hungary has won time.
On Monday Hungary submitted its counter-application in the infringement procedure to the European Court of Justice, the Minister of State of the Ministry of Justice told the public service media on Thursday in Budapest.
After many years Hungarian diplomatic presence has returned to Lendva, the capital of the Hungarian community in Slovenia, Levente Magyar, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Thursday at the opening of the new building of the Hungarian consulate general in Lendva, in Slovenia.
The prospects are good that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will remain strong after 2020. Yesterday in Brussels, EU agriculture ministers adopted presidential conclusions on the future direction of the CAP. The contents of the V4 statement adopted in Budapest in January were successfully included in the document. “Yesterday’s decision by the EU’s agriculture ministers has designated a definite direction for the Commission with regard to the drawing up of legislative proposals at the end of May”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas stressed following a meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Brussels on 19 March.