With the inauguration of the Wessling Knowledge Centre a hub has been created that will house a leading regional R&D base of an international engineering innovation network of 1000 researchers, Minister of State for Economic Development and Regulation István Lepsényi said at the opening ceremony. Hungary’s economic achievements have been the result of the accomplishment of successful companies, he added.
“Hungarian interests must be protected, and action must be taken with respect to unfair attacks against Hungary, even if they are made abroad by another Hungarian citizen”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Deputy State Secretary for Communication and Parliamentary Relations, Tamás Menczer said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Sunday.
“Maintaining border security is in our fundamental national interest”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Saturday evening current affairs program.
“Hungary would like to be a refuge for persecuted Christians”, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog said on Friday in Budapest.
At the dedication of a new Protestant church in Szászfenes (Florești), Romania, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that “Hungary is strong enough in both body and spirit to also take responsibility for Transylvanian Hungarians”.
“Germany’s political leaders also acknowledge the importance of border protection, and acknowledge Hungary’s performance, irrespective of which political side they belong to”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said following talks in Stuttgart on Friday.
Speaking at the Protestant Theological Institute in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca), during the largest Transylvanian event of the jubilee year organised to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that the entire Carpathian Basin is on the threshold of the age of national pride. He also spoke about pastoral service in its purest form as a requirement for young theologians.
“In accordance with the Prime Minister’s discussion in Estonia, Hungary will be re-establishing its ambassadorial presence in Holland”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
“The Dutch Prime Minister and I have concluded the conflict and the Hungarian Ambassador can now return to Holland”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told reporters in Tallinn on Friday.
“The quota system has failed”, Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár said at the Governmentinfo 99 press conference, explaining: member states accepted only 29 percent of the numbers prescribed by the European Commission by the 26 September deadline.