“Because of the coronavirus epidemic, we must prepare for further waves of migration, and accordingly for the consistent protection of the EU’s external borders”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Thursday in Athens.
The European Parliament has given protectionism the go-ahead after adopting Mobility Package I determining long-term rules for the European transport sector, some of the provisions of which are contrary not only to basic freedoms relating to the single market, but also to the European Green Deal laying down the objective of climate neutrality, Justice Minister Judit Varga posted on Facebook on Thursday.
National self-esteem is inconceivable without agriculture, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated at the presentation of the book entitled ‘Everything for the Future of Hungarian Countryside’ on Thursday in Budapest.
The government intends to maintain the epidemiological preparedness and at the same time foster economic growth with the budget of 2021 – the Minister of Finance said on the Sunday Paper show of Kossuth Rádió.
“MMXH Ltd. will be establishing new home furnishing stores and an 8.2-billion-forint (EUR 23 million) logistics centre in Hungary, as a result of which 500 new workplaces will be created”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga announced. The Minister and Managing Director of MMXH András Simonyi concluded a strategic partnership agreement that will contribute to the more rapid rebooting of the Hungarian economy.
“The Hungarian government is launching a funding program with a budget of fifty billion forints (EUR 140.7 million) for the development of healthcare production capacities”, Minister of Finance Mihály Varga announced in a video posted to his social media page.
“39 enterprises are realising 16.5 billion forints (EUR 46.45 million) in investment in Somogy County with the help of 8 billion forints (EUR 22.52 million) in state funding, thanks to which they are protecting 6600 workplaces”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday in Csurgó, at a ceremony to present Topesa Ltd. with its funding certificate within the framework of the competitiveness-increasing funding program.
There is great interest in the national consultation; according to Wednesday morning aggregated data, the Hungarian people have already completed 232,000 national consultation questionnaires, Csaba Dömötör, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said at a press conference held on Wednesday in Budapest.
The budget, as it did during the state of emergency and continues to do during the period of epidemiological preparedness, is fully providing the resources required for protecting against the coronavirus pandemic and the rebooting of the economy.
There is a need for a strategy that focuses on the needs of the European Union, and the real challenge is how to strengthen economic performance and competitiveness, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at an online international conference entitled ‘Europe Uncensored’ held on Wednesday.