Szabolcs Takács, Minister of State for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office had talks with EU Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc on 19 September 2017.
We have succeeded in dispersing the “left-wing fog” which characterised, before their arrival, the delegation of the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control currently visiting Hungary, the State Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office told journalists.
“In Hungary’s view, illegal migration represents a major security risk to Europe, and the Government regards it as a huge problem that the European Union was unable to handle this phenomenon right at the beginning”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on BBC television’s Hard Talk show.
“Given the current situation in which North Korea represents a huge threat to the whole world, a total ban on nuclear testing is more important than ever before”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared at the ministerial conference on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) held within the framework of the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The Government aims to stimulate market participants to create new jobs where they are needed most, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at the opening of a capacity expansion project by Fémalk Fémöntészeti és Alkatrészgyártó Zrt in Erdőhorváti, Northern Hungary.
The German conservative newspaper Die Welt published an interview with Justice Minister László Trócsányi on its news portal on Wednesday under the title It is not particularly wise to force something upon Central-Europe in connection with the quota lawsuit.
The funeral of the chemist and Nobel laureate George A. Olah (György Oláh) – who also received the Corvin Chain and the Széchenyi Grand Prize from the Hungarian state – took place on Tuesday. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered an oration, in which he said: “He will be fondly remembered not only in the annals of science, but also in the book of great Hungarian patriots. He was a man of unbending character, who always followed his own path, and never allowed himself to be diverted from it.”
On Tuesday Bertalan Havasi, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, informed Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had sent greetings for the Jewish New Year to representatives of the Hungarian Jewish community.
According to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, American companies regard Hungary as one of the most attractive investment environments in Europe.
“Hungary welcomes the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in which the body accepted Hungary’s appeal with relation to the case concerning two Bangladeshi asylum-seekers, who according to the Court’s ruling of first instance were held unlawfully in the autumn of 2015 before being sent back to Serbia”, Deputy Justice Minister Pál Völner said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.