According to the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary State Secretary, the statement attacking the National Consultation by head of the European Parliament’s liberal group Guy Verhofstadt are just part of the usual application of pressure. “The goal of the offensive statements is also obvious; they want Hungary to change its immigration policy”, Csaba Dömötör told Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday evening.
“The negative effects of the migration process that has been ongoing since 2015 have become commonplace in Europe”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said at a press conference in Budapest.
Renewable energy sources derived from agriculture, Central European agrarian research and the dual quality of food – these were the most important issues for the countries of the Visegrád Group (V4) among the topics of discussion at today’s session of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Brussels.
“The migration crisis caught Europe unprepared, and according to Hungary the solution proposed by Brussels, the quota system, is not working”, Minister of Justice László Trócsányi said in an interview published in French language Lebanese daily L’Orient- Le Jour on Tuesday, 7 November.
“Hungarian agriculture is the fastest growing agriculture in Europe, and the goal is for it to remain so in future”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said in the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplém County town of Tállya on Tuesday at the State of Agricultural and Rural Development conference organised by the Századvég Foundation.
“The National Association of Hungarian Farmers’ Circles and Farmers Cooperatives (MAGOSZ) won the Chamber of Agriculture election with an impressive majority of over 88 percent”, Minister of Agriculture said in assessment of the weekend’s voting on Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” program and Hungarian M1 television’s “This Morning” program.
Hungary can only be strong if it is able to maintain its security and Europe’s strength likewise does not diminish, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said in Szob.
A Family Affairs Cabinet has been formed. The agenda of its first meeting featured the establishment of a demography policy institute under the name of sociologist Mária Kopp and a variety of family support measures, the Minister of Human Capacities and the Minister of State for Family, Youth and International Affairs said at a press conference held after the meeting.
Every EU finance minister had been invited to attend the Monday session of the Eurogroup, where participants discussed proposed changes to the fiscal regulatory system of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the creation of a new financial instrument and the extension of the banking union, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said.
At the latest session of the council of EU finance ministers, the Ecofin, representatives of member states discussed the future of the European financial supervisory system and the potential simplification of the VAT regulations on international e-trade. Finance ministers also had an overview of the EU’s current economic situation at a working breakfast.