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Generating tension - a response to the article by index.hu

Ministry of Interior, May 12, 2017 5:07 PM

Using the sensationalist title of an article published on the index.hu news portal at 1:57 p.m. on 12 May 2017, several media service providers have been stating that the temporary security fence along the Hungarian border is being electrified. In contrast, as is also clear if one reads the index.hu article carefully, the truth is that the border fences are not being electrified.

Hungary has become China’s number one economic partner in Central Europe

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, May 12, 2017 2:43 PM

“Hungary has grown to become China’s number one economic partner in Central Europe today”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told public media on Friday in Beijing.

The Visegrád defence cooperation is intensive

Ministry of Defence, May 12, 2017 1:59 PM

Parliamentary State Secretary and Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Defence Tamás Vargha held discussions on the strengthening of defence cooperation among the Visegrád Four (V4) countries in Krakow, Poland.

The Brexit referendum is not the cause of the EU’s problems, but their consequence

Prime Minister’s Office, May 12, 2017 1:29 PM

According to Minister of State for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács from the Prime Minister’s Office, the fact that the majority of the British people voted to exit the European Union at the referendum held last June is not a cause of the European Union’s problems, but a direct consequence of those problems.

Year-on-year industrial output growth above 13 percent in March

Ministry of Finance, May 12, 2017 12:46 PM

In March 2017, output of the industrial sector grew by 13.4 percent year-on-year. In Q1 2017, output was up by 7.8 percent year-on-year. Output was higher in all thirteen manufacturing sub sectors. Incoming data show that year-on-year output growth in the Hungarian industrial sector significantly exceeded that of the EU and the three other Visegrad Group members.

European Commission predicts accelerating economic growth

Ministry of Finance, May 12, 2017 11:10 AM

In the Spring 2017 Economic Forecast, the European Commission revised upward its prediction for Hungary’s economic growth, to 3.6 percent in 2017 and 3.5 percent in 2018. The Hungarian Government prognosticates a slightly higher growth rate of 4 percent for both years. The Commission’s growth forecast is higher than it was in the autumn report, and thus the institute acknowledges that in this period the country’s growth rate is to exceed that of the EU.

Migration isn’t the answer to Europe’s problems

Government spokesperson, May 12, 2017 9:46 AM

“Immigration is definitely not the answer to Europe’s problems, be they economic, demographic or employment-related”, the Government Spokesperson said on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs program.

The Hungarians do not support the resettlement of migrants

Government, May 12, 2017 9:45 AM

“Hungarian society does not support the resettlement of migrants, or the fact that a central government in Brussels should decide on this issue”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister declared on Thursday in Tatabánya.

The National Consultation is about issues that affect the nation’s future

Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister, May 12, 2017 9:44 AM


“The National Consultation is about issues that directly affect the nation’s future, and accordingly the opinion of every Hungarian counts”, the Minister of State for Government Communication said at a press conference on Thursday in the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County town of Nyírtelek.

Democracy may fulfil itself in national consultation

Prime Minister’s Office, May 12, 2017 8:01 AM

The criticisms levelled at the national consultation are views that do not concern the essence of democracy as democracy fulfils itself in the consultation, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 87 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács in the Parliament Building.