“It is in the interests of both Hungary and Europe for the Balkan migration route to remain closed, and in view of the fact that Macedonia is a country of key importance in this regard, we are cooperating with those Macedonian forces that are practicing this policy”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a press conference in Ohrid.
“A successful economic transformation requires strategic allies in view of the fact that in the competition between countries the successful ones will be those who are capable of reaching out to leading corporations”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Budapest following the conclusion of a strategic partnership agreement with SAP Hungary Ltd.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó met with the Speaker of Morocco’s House of Representatives, Habib el Malki.
Minister of State for Security Policy and International Cooperation Dr. István Mikola attended the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Telecom World 2017 conference in Busan, South Korea, where he gave a speech.
“Hungary wants to ask for the revocation of Ukraine’s already adopted Education Act, and the Language and Nationality acts that are currently before Kiev’s Parliament”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at an impromptu press conference held following an event organised by the American Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.
According to the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, the EU’s bureaucratic apparatus and countries interested in immigration do not care about the security risks of migration.
“The United States is the second most important investor in Hungary and its primary export market outside the European Union”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Budapest at the Business Meets Government Summit business people’s meeting organised by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham).
“The series of attempted denunciations of Hungary by your newspaper presents opinion so determined in its criticism that it loses sight of plain facts”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács wrote in a reader’s letter published in Friday’s edition of the British business daily.
“The Hungarian Government absolutely and resolutely rejects every point of the ‘Soros Plan’, and continues to be against allowing one million migrants into Europe every year, the demolishing of the border security fence, the 9 million forints in aid to be provided to every migrant and the mandatory resettlement quota, in addition to which it also rejects the punishment of Central European countries”, Minister of State or Government Communication Bence Tuzson said at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday.
Having climbed nine places on the World Economic Forum (WEF) global competitiveness ranking, Hungary is now the 60th on the list, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga announced on Wednesday.