Hungary is a strong country now, financially, as far as its pride is concerned, and also in its national awareness, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén stated in Szatmárnémeti in Romania on Thursday at the inauguration of the St. Aloysius Convent School refurbished from grants provided by the Hungarian Government.
“Although Europe has continued to lose some of its competitiveness for various reasons, Central Europe is travelling an opposite path thanks to its economic and security policies that are based on common sense, and the Hungarian Government is doing everything possible to assure the safety of its people and of investments”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed on Thursday in Milan.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó held talks with his Italian counterpart on joint action to prevent the persecution of Christians and on the causes of migration in Milan on Thursday.
Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó received the members of a delegation from the United States Senate, headed by Senator Richard Shelby in his office in Budapest on Wednesday.
According to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Europe is insisting on an immigration policy that allows dangerous extremists to enter the EU, but Hungary instead professes that rather than bringing the trouble here, help should be taken to where it is needed. “Hungary is helping persecuted Christians to return home”, he stated.
The deputy agriculture ministers of Hungary and Lebanon met in Budapest on Wednesday to discuss opportunities for the expansion of agrarian trade between the two countries.
“Demographic and economic problems must be solved by ‘enabling’ the people of Europe, and not from the outside”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács stressed on Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” programme on Thursday morning.
“The internal security situation has worsened radically throughout Europe in the past two and a half years, but in contrast, in Hungary national security and public safety have both improved”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi declared on Wednesday at the public forum in Gyomaendrőd on the National Consultation launched with regard to the “Soros Plan”.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief informed kormany.hu that on Wednesday evening in the Hungarian Parliament Building, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Lebanese Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil.
The acceleration of the European and Euro-Atlantic integration of the Western Balkans region is a security and economic interest for the whole of Europe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday in Budapest.