Bertalan Havasi, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed the Hungarian news agency MTI that in Budapest on Tuesday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with Oliver Dashe Doeme, the Bishop of the Nigerian diocese of Maiduguri. The two men discussed possibilities for providing help to persecuted Christians in Nigeria.
Although the European Union continues to refuse to break with the migration policy it has been practicing so far, increasing numbers of countries are making statements on the need to do so, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister explained on Hungarian M1 television’s Tuesday evening current affairs program.
Hungary stands by the closure of the border against György Soros, and by doing so Hungary equally protects Europe’s Schengen borders and the country itself, protects public security, and provides assistance with preventing acts of terrorism that affect Western-European countries, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Justice Ministry spoke about this at his press conference held on 18 July 2017.
At a press conference in Budapest, held jointly with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has stated that Hungary proclaims zero tolerance on anti-Semitism. The Hungarian prime minister also stressed that Hungary had committed a crime in failing to protect its Jewish citizens in World War II.
“According to our standpoint, Hungarian farmers, who have already had to endure the dioxin pork scandal, the Russian embargo and the pork and milk market crisis, cannot be expected to also undertake responsibility for finding a solution to the migration crisis”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas told Hungarian daily Magyar Hírlap.
Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas thanked ambassador Ksenija Škrilec for her work as head of the Slovenian mission since the autumn of 2013 and praised their recent successful cooperation.
“The Government’s twenty-point food safety action plan serves the interests of the Hungarian people and facilitates the improvement of food quality, the development of consumer consciousness and the increased efficiency of the activities of the food safety authority”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said on the Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County town of Tizsaderzs on Saturday.
“According to Hungary’s standpoint, fair competition must be established to protect Hungarian and EU rice farmers from the increasing imports that are arriving from third countries. We would like to place special emphasis on rice production during development of the framework for the Common Agricultural Policy beyond 2020”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said in Brussels following the signing of the joint statement.
Thanks to a joint Hungarian-German initiative, on 17 July 2017 the agriculture ministers of Austria, Finland, France, Greece, Holland, Croatia, Poland, Luxembourg, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia officially signed the European Soy Declaration at Hungary’s Permanent Representation in Brussels.
“There is significant international interests in Hungarian agricultural research results, and not just in neighbouring countries, but for instance there is also demand in Central Asia, for instance, for the new Hungarian wheat varieties that Hungarian researchers have developed to adapt to new climate conditions”, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said at a press conference in Budapest.