Bertalan Havasi, Press Chief of the Prime Minister, has told kormany.hu that during their meeting in Budapest on Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission for Energy Union, agreed on the importance of energy security and low European energy prices.
The most recent statement by the US Department of State is another stark example of double standards, since the regulation in force in the USA is much stricter than that in Hungary. In the USA Soros organisations could never do what they are doing in Europe.
Siemens expanding its gas and steam turbine blade plant at its Power and Gas plant facility in Budapest with an investment of some 10 billion for tins (EUR 32.5M).
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice Pál Völner has responded to a statement on Monday by Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights. Mr. Muižnieks said that European countries should remove barriers to the reunification of migrant families. In response, Mr. Völner has told Hungarian daily Magyar Hírlap that Hungary also supports the reunification of migrant families – but in their homelands, not in Europe.
In Warsaw, at the ceremonial transfer of the annual presidency of the Visegrád Group, Viktor Orbán said that “If the Visegrád Four had not joined forces, hundreds of thousands of people would still be flowing into Europe without hindrance, thus further impairing the secure life of the continent’s people”.
Leaders from the European Union’s member states discussed the latest developments concerning international action to combat climate change at a meeting of EU Environment and Climate Ministers in Luxembourg on 19 June 2017.
On Monday, 19 June, a discussion took place in Prague on the role of the Central European Defence Cooperation (CEDC) in managing mass illegal migration.
In Warsaw, after a summit of prime ministers of the Visegrád countries (V4) and the Benelux states, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that different cultural foundations produce different migration policies.
Hungary is committed to cooperation with China, and wishes to become the engine of cooperation in health care between China and the Eastern-Central-European region, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said at the conference of the Health Ministers of the Eastern-Central-European countries and China held in Budapest on Monday.
“Europe is facing the greatest threat of terrorism of all time, and accordingly clear speech and determined action are required in the interests of protecting the people of Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in the recess of a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday.