After talks in Budapest’s Parliament Building on Tuesday with the European People's Party parliamentary group leader Manfred Weber, Hungarian prime minister and Fidesz president Viktor Orbán told journalists that Europe is full, and that as a result the continent’s external borders must be defended.
Following wage growth of more than 10 percent real last year, in the beginning of this year wages rose by 11.5 percent year-on-year in Hungary, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said.
At his press conference on Tuesday, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács called on Migration Aid to reply to allegations that it compiled a secret database of migrants in the transit zone.
“The Government’s most important task is to assure the right to safety”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Geneva on Monday before the UN Human Rights Committee in explanation and defence of Hungary’s anti-immigration stance.
“We must not simply win an election; we must protect the country and secure the future”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday in Szerencs.
“The fact that a country like Ukraine is in a geopolitically important position does not mean that it is exempted from adhering to international law, or from its obligation to protect the minorities living in its territory”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Brussels in the recess of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
On Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his Sunday re-election in a letter, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief informed Hungarian news agency MTI.
In Tiszaújváros on Monday, at the inauguration of a synthetic rubber plant for the oil and gas company MOL Group and the Japanese JSR Corporation, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary is growing, and this is something that even a blind person can see. He added that Hungary is growing because it is safe.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited the Operative task Force on Saturday in advance of the expected snowfall on Saturday evening and Sunday.
“On Monday, via the Hungarian Embassy in Tel Aviv, the Government will be officially asking the Chief Editor of the Jerusalem Post to provide a copy of the recording that proves that the Berlin organisation of the Soros network is lobbying to assure that the German Government applies pressure on Hungary through German companies operating in Hungary”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.