Hungary’s economy has switched into a higher gear in 2017. According to the latest report by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), in Q4 2017 and in the year 2017 the economy grew by 4.4 percent and 4.0 percent, respectively, year-on-year.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó discussed transport links with Romanian Minister of Transport Lucian Şova in Budapest on Tuesday, the Ministry said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.
Developments worth HUF 80 to 90 billion will be implemented in and around the city of Szombathely as part of the Modern Cities Programme, two thirds of which will be financed from domestic fiscal resources, Lajos Kósa, minister without portfolio responsible for the development of county-ranked cities said at a press conference held in the Vas County seat on Monday.
Hungary believes the time has come for European solidarity to be manifested in border protection as well, namely for the European Union to make a contribution to the extraordinary expenditures incurred by Hungary which also serve common European interests, Takács Szabolcs, Minister of State for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office said in a telephone interview given to the Hungarian news agency on Monday.
According to Viktor Orbán, what is needed to enable Hungary to protect itself from migrants is for people not to allow politicians who want to turn Hungary into an immigrant country and the capital into such a city to form a government.
At the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on Monday, during the launch of the publication of the Judicial Handbook, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that The creation of a “United States of Europe” would mean that “we would have an immigrant continent”, and within it a Hungary turned into an immigrant country.
For a long time the Hungarian government has consistently shared the view that the future of the European Union is guaranteed if it returns to its foundations, and as part of these foundations Member States must continuously manifest respect and understanding towards one another, Minister of State for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács said on Monday in the Parliament Building.
According to Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács, migration and the problems related to it continue to be the greatest challenge for the whole of Europe.
“Investors will take jobs that provide good salaries and a good living elsewhere if Hungary does not remain the safest country in Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI in the recess of his negotiations in Munich on Monday.
Speaking at the ceremonial staff meeting of the Military National Security Service (MNSS) in Budapest on Monday, Minister of Defence István Simicskó stated that covert threats present the greatest challenge.