“If there were no fence, tens of thousands of migrants would be arriving in Hungary each year”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared following a visit to Tompa, on the Hungarian-Serbian border, on Friday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó condemned the latest attack against Transcarpathian Hungarians, calling it obnoxious and highlighting. “It is unacceptable for Hungarians to have to live in fear in the land of their birth, in Transcarpathia”.
“What is at stake at the elections is whether Hungary will have a government that focuses on the future of the people, or one that is pro-immigration”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at a public forum on Tapolca on Wednesday.
According to the Government Spokesperson, The Jerusalem Post has provided evidence that George Soros organises and finances attacks against Hungary.
On Thursday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a speech outside the Parliament Building in Kossuth tér, Budapest at the public commemoration marking the 170th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. In it he said that “This is our homeland, this is our life, and we have no other. Therefore we shall fight for it to the end and we shall never surrender”.
“They want to take our country away. Not with the stroke of a pen like they did a hundred years ago in Trianon,” said Prime Minister Orbán in his March 15th address before a crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands to commemorate the 170th anniversary of Hungary’s 1848 Revolution and War of Independence, “but that we voluntarily hand it over to others in the decades to come.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade condems in the strongest terms the nerve agent attack against the United Kingdom on March 4, 2018, which it considers to be the breach of relevant international norms as well as the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent letters congratulating German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her re-election, and to Horst Seehofer on his appointment as Minister of Interior, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief informed Hungarian news agency MTI.
Hungary’s re-industrialization has been on track. Thanks to a favourable economic environment and Government incentives, the output of the sector has increased by some 40 percent since 2010, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, commenting on data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH). As the Minister added, in January 2018 the volume of industrial output grew by 6.9 percent year-on-year, and thanks to recently implemented capacity expansion projects growth was expected to continue in the near future.
The Government’s measures aiming to support the construction sector have come to fruition. Thanks to the housing programme, the preferential VAT rate on new homes and active industrial policy, the sector has been growing in a persistent and robust manner, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, commenting on the latest data published by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).