Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyễn Thanh Phong met in Budapest on Friday to discuss cooperation between Vietnam and Hungary.
“There is still not agreement with relation to immigration; Europe is still not prepared to commit itself to stopping the wave of immigration”, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs said.
Hungary refuses in the strongest possible terms to open the borders of the EU and to install migrant villages in Central-Eastern-Europe, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 93 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
Central Europe must play an important role in restoring European security and competitiveness, and accordingly it must take firm action in the interests of stopping migration, facilitating EU enlargement and reinforcing economic cooperation between the eastern and western half of the continent - this is the standpoint Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó will be representing at a meeting of Central European Initiative (CEI) foreign ministers in Minsk on Thursday.
Arriving at a two-day summit of European Union Member States in Brussels on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Hungarian journalists that “There is no agreement among European Union Member States on the distribution of migrants, as Western countries which foolishly allowed in migrants want to get rid of them by distributing them among countries such as Hungary, which protected themselves and did not allow migrants to enter”.
At the ceremonial inauguration of the refurbished Klebelsberg Villa in Budapest’s Pesthidegkút on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Europe must understand that the more of its own faith and culture it gives up, the weaker it will be politically and economically.
The continuous development and efficiency-focused updating of the control mechanisms of public finances is a prerequisite of stable public finance management, Minister of State for Public Finances Péter Benő Banai said at the opening ceremony of the Public Internal Control Conference initiated by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Budget in Budapest.
“It is extremely favourable to Hungary from an economic perspective that it has the opportunity to cooperate with an African country that has a strong economy like Angola”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday following talks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Angolan Republic Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti.
The refurbishment of abandoned Jewish cemeteries was also on the agenda of the meeting of the Jewish Community Roundtable held on Wednesday in Budapest, the Deputy Secretary for Social and Heritage Protection Affairs and Priority Cultural Projects at the Prime Minister’s Office told journalists after the meeting.
Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog has written a letter to United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, thanking her for taking note of the amendments to Hungary’s Act on Higher Education, and for indicating the States that have the right to enter into negotiations.