“The Government will not assist in the adoption of a text that is at odds with the country’s interests, but we will fight until possible for these criteria to be enforced”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said with relation to the UN’s migrating package on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs program.
The leadership of the Christian Democrat international (CDI) is holding a session in Budapest on Friday, and on the eve of the conference Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received CDI President and former President of Columbia Andrés Pastrana Arangó in the Parliament Building, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi informed the kormany.hu government news portal.
“The first ever prime ministerial meeting in the history of Hungary and the Republic of Cape Verde was held on Thursday afternoon in Budapest”, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi informed the kormany.hu government news portal.
Hungary is staying in the UN migration talks and is engaging in battle in order to influence the relevant plans on their merits, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 109 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
“There is a special responsibility on the shoulders of the parties negotiating the UN’s migration package and the EU reform of the Dublin Regulation, because if the idea that migration is good and should be encouraged wins out, then the 15 million internal refugees and people in need of humanitarian aid living in the immediate vicinity of the European Union could easily decide to set out for Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Sofia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade expresses its condolences to the victims of the shooting that took place in a high school in Florida on 14 February, and wishes the injured a speedy recovery. Hungary is standing by the Unites States in these difficult hours following the tragedy.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has told the local Hungarian weekly Veszprémi 7 Nap that Hungary must preserve its Christian culture.
Employment has improved markedly since 2010 in Hungary: the number of people with a job has grown by some 750 thousand and the unemployment rate has fallen by two-thirds, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga has said a conference in Budapest.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Deputy State Secretary for European and American Affairs Kristóf Altusz paid a working visit to the United Kingdom on 13 February 2018.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó will be reopening the Hungarian Embassy in Angola and Wednesday.