We should not forge great new plans in Europe at this point in time, but must protect what we have already achieved, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday in Passau.
At the official commemoration event of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, held outside the House of Terror Museum in Budapest on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “If freedom is lost, if national independence is lost, we too are lost”.
“The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s High Commissioner on National Minorities Lamberto Zannier also shares our concerns with relation to Ukraine’s Education Act”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday from Palermo, Italy, where he is attending an OSCE Mediterranean Partnership conference.
According to Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács, the decision of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs which was adopted the other day is also contrary to the intentions of the supreme decision-making body of the European Union, the European Council.
“The overwhelming majority of the country does not want parallel societies, the establishment of ghettos and migrants”, Deputy Justice Minister Pál Völner said in an interview for Hungarian political news portal Pesti Srácok.
“Migration is approaching its most dangerous stage ever”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday in Palermo, Italy.
In August 2017, the volume of retail sales grew by 4.7 percent according to both unadjusted data and data adjusted for calendar effects. Thus, the sector’s upward trend has been unbroken for 50 months. In comparison to January 2010, the volume of retail sales has increased by more than 22 percent in Hungary.
Minister without Portfolio Lajos Kósa, who celebrated the 1956 revolution and freedom fight together with Hungarians living in California, highlighted in Los Angeles: Hungarians, wherever they may live, are tied together by their love of freedom and the fight in its pursuit.
A compromised was reached with respect to the main lines of the amendment of the legislation relating to posted workers at the Monday meeting of EU Ministers responsible for employment and social affairs held in Luxembourg. According to Minister of State Szabolcs Takács, the Hungarian delegation managed to protect the interests of the haulage sector.
More than a lifetime’s worth of development and freedom was taken away from Hungary by the traitors of 1956, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said in his message sent to the people of Makó on the occasion of the anniversary of the revolution.