At a meeting of the Presidency of the European People’s Party, the Prime Minister of Hungary pointed out that the Government of Hungary is ready to cooperate with the European Commission on all unresolved legal questions.
Today North Korea has carried out another ballistic missile test only a few hours after the UN Security Council held a Ministerial Session on its nuclear and ballistic missile program. By continuing its weapons programmes in clear violation of the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council, Pyongyang is dangerously close to achieving a nuclear strike capability which would threaten our partners in East Asia and our allies.
By the end of the meeting of the European People’s Party, it was evident to every one of the attendees that Hungary’s place is in the EU, and Fidesz’s place is in the European People’s Party, Antal Rogán, the Minister heading the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said on Saturday in Brussels, after the meeting.
On Friday, after signing a cooperation agreement with Mayor Zsolt Borkai at a press conference held as part of the Győr stage of the Modern Cities Programme, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Győr has contributed a great deal to Hungary’s economic strength – not only in terms of forints paid in taxes, but also self-confidence.
“It must be realised that the security of the European Union begins with the stability of Turkey, in view of the fact that in exchange for 3 billion euros the EU decided to entrust the halting of the wave of migration to Turkey”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday following an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Valetta, Malta.
Over half a million people have filled out and sent in their National Consultation questionnaires, most of them by post.
The second fence of the double fence system along the whole, 155 kilometre stretch of the Hungarian-Serbian border has been completed.
On the Friday edition of Kossuth Radio’s morning programme “180 Minutes”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the dual system of fences completed on the country’s southern border has assured Hungarians’ long-term safety.
Minister of Justice László Trócsányi met with his Norwegian counterpart Minister of Justice and Public Security Per-Willy Amundsen in Olso.
“What we are seeing in Macedonia is the result of a series of external interventions and clearly indicates the dangers involved if the life of a country is influenced from outside” Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday with regard to the protests in Skopje and the attack on the country’s Parliament Building.