A guidebook published by a German civil society organisation funded by George Soros provides advice to illegal migrants on how to mislead the authorities and evade the member state border security systems, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Sunday evening current affairs program.
At the inauguration of the refurbished National Riding School in Budapest on Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “We love Hungary, we love our culture, and therefore we also love our horses”.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade has officially protested the fact that during the negotiations on the UN’s Compact for Migration the European Union put forward as a common EU standpoint something with regard to which there is no consensus between the 28 member states, in a letter to the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini.
In a video message in Brussels on Friday posted on Facebook, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the time has come for substantive talks to begin on the allocation of funding for border defence. Mr. Orbán noted that Hungary had spent more than 1 billion euros on protection of European borders, and that in doing so “we are not only protecting ourselves, but also Europe”.
The Hungarian Government’s Vojvodina Economic Development Programme will be reaching the 250 million euro mark in 2018, which means the Government has kept its 2015 promise, according to which it will be providing a new vision of the future to the Hungarian community in Vojvodina within a short period of time and will be placing the Hungarian economy in Vojvodina onto new foundations”, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary, Levente Magyar said on Thursday in Bácskossuthfalva (Stara Moravica), where the Programme’s latest tenders were launched.
Szabolcs Takács, State Secretary for European Union Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office has sent a letter to Michael Roth, Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, in response to his recent political concerns regarding the ’Stop Soros’ legislative package.
“The European Union’s maritime borders must be defended in the same way as Hungary was capable of defending the EU’s external land borders”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI rom Malta.
Speaking on Hungarian TV channel M1 on Thursday, Minister of Defence István Simicsikó said that under a government decision, the defence budget would reach 2 per cent of the GDP by 2024, which would allow setting the Hungarian Defence Forces on a path of growth.
The National Armaments Directors of the Visegrád Four (V4) countries recently held a consultation in Budapest. The main topic of the 21–22 February meeting was the strengthening and deepening of cooperation in order to guarantee the security of the region and Europe.
In his speech delivered in Székesfehérvár on 22 February, Deputy Defence Minister Tamás Vargha, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence stated that the Hungarian Defence Forces guarantee the security of Hungarian citizens and families.