“The European Commission has ‘launched a manhunt’ against a few Central European countries that are speaking honestly and openly about the challenges facing Europe and were capable of providing effective responses to those challenges”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
In his closing speech at the Hungarian-Israeli Business Forum, which was held to coincide with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s official visit to Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “All political obstacles have been removed from the path of Hungarian-Israeli economic cooperation”.
At the invitation of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (MAZSIHISZ), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu visited representatives of the Hungarian Jewish Community at the Dohány Street Synagogue (the Great Synagogue) in Budapest on Wednesday.
“French automotive industry company Sicta Ltd is expanding its existing plant in Felsőzsolca with an investment of 3.4 billion forints (EUR 11M), towards which the Hungarian Government is providing 437 million forints in funding, which is 13 percent of the total cost of the project”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced in Budapest on Wednesday.
In a letter sent on Wednesday to Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni by the prime ministers of the Visegrád countries (V4), the V4 countries assured Italy of their support in the European migration crisis.
In Budapest on Wednesday, after a meeting between the Israeli prime minister and the prime ministers of the countries of the Visegrád Four (V4), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that, at the initiative of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the V4 countries, a joint task force will be set up to further the fight against terrorism.
Ministers of agriculture from the Visegrád Group (V4) and the Baltic states held an extremely significant meeting in Brussels of 18 July.
The one millionth Hungarian citizenship request may already have been submitted, while the number of those who have taken their citizenship oaths may reach one million by November, the date of the Hungarian Standing Conference, the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for nation policy said on Wednesday in Tusnádfürdő in an interview given to the public service television news channel M1.
Szabolcs Takács, Minister of State for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office held talks with Lucia Puttrich, Hessian Minister of European and Federal Affairs on 18 July 2017.
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stance in support of Hungary is a clear refutation of the false and offensive accusations of anti-Semitism against the country”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday morning current affairs program.