According to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s evaluation, the Wednesday meeting of the Visegrád countries (V4) and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker was successful, fruitful and useful, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 101 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
Deputy Minister of Human Capacities Bence Rétvári spoke about the fact that instead of being resettled in Europe, people in need are awaiting assistance from Europe at home, on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday morning current affairs program.
“Italy must be helped to protect its borders”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared in Brussels.
“According to the countries of the Visegrád Group, it is important to support initiatives within the European Union that are aimed at protecting Europe’s external borders”, the Ministry of Defence’s Parliamentary State Secretary declared at a joint press conference on Wednesday with his fellow V4 deputy defence ministers in Székesfehérvár.
“Environmental protection facilitates permanent, balanced development”, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Agricultural Development and Hungaricums said on Tuesday in Budapest at an international conference held on the sidelines of the 6th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) held in the Hungarian capital on 18-19 October.
Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone was presented with the Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit prior to his concert in Budapest on Wednesday.
Thanks partly to the six-year wage agreement concluded last November, the positive real wage growth trend in place for more than four-and-a-half years has remained unbroken in Hungary. In the initial eight months of 2017, gross wages were up by some 44 percent compared to the same period of 2010, which figure shows the beneficial effect of, among other factors, Government measures.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, the statement on the freedom of the press by the US Embassy to Budapest’s temporary Chargé d'affaires on Tuesday and similar manifestations cannot be interpreted as anything other than uninvited interference in Hungarian internal politics.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has reopened the Hungarian Embassy in Lima, which was closed in 2006.
“The state of Baden-Württemberg will continue to provide annual funding of 500 thousand euros to Andrássy University in future”, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Justice and European Affairs Guido Wolf announced in Budapest on Tuesday following a meeting with Hungary’s Minister of Human Capacities.