The number of migrants arriving in Italy has increased significantly; they are coming primarily from Libya, Tunisia and Algeria, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on the public service television news channel M1 on Wednesday morning.
EU Member States cannot be forced to adopt the budget and the recovery package on a political or ideological basis, the Justice Minister said on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Good morning, Hungary’ on Wednesday.
Hungary has been given access to funds worth sixty billion forints for the fight against the epidemic, Finance Minister Mihály Varga announced in a video message posted on his social media account, after he signed an agreement with the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB). The Finance Minister said the preferential funding is available, among others, for the procurement of face masks, medicines, test kits, disinfectants and intensive care beds.
“The more enterprises realise investment projects, the more realistic it is that the country will be able to rapidly return to its 2019 growth trajectory”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday in Tolna.
Today being conservative and normal is seen as rebellious, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stressed at the conference entitled ‘Culture War in the 21st Century’ held in Budapest on Tuesday.
In a message sent to French head of state Emmanuel Macron on the occasion of the national holiday of the French Republic, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote about the growing importance of Hungarian-French cooperation, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
Prime Minister of Portugal António Costa has arrived in Budapest; he was received by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the Carmelite Monastery, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday morning.
“Austria and its eastern neighbours held discussions on several occasions during the coronavirus epidemic, and the negotiations were successful and facilitated healthcare protection”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday in Budapest after receiving his Austrian, Czech, Slovakian and Slovenian counterparts.
“Lidl will be constructing a new logistics centre in Hungary; the government is providing 1.2 billion forints (EUR 3.39 million) in non-returnable investment promotion funding towards the 35 billion-forint (EUR 98.8 million) investment project”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on Tuesday in Budapest.
Örs Farkas, spokesperson for the Government Communication Centre, speaking on news channel M1 on Tuesday morning.