At the inauguration ceremony of the Apollo Tyres factory in Gyöngyöshalász on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary’s goal is to remain Central Europe’s engine of production, with the Indian tyre company being one of the cylinders in this engine.
“The Syrian conflict cannot be resolved without an American-Russian accord, but this is what we are currently furthest away from”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told reporters on Friday after the United States launched a missile strike against a target in Syria.
“The Hungarian Government rejects all attacks using chemical weapons and the events also confirm that a negotiated settlement of the Syrian conflict is a matter of extreme urgency”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
The Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said it was timely that citizens voice their opinions on the Government’s migration policy and actions to prevent future threats within the framework of the National Consultation, because there is no consensus between Brussels and Budapest on the matter.
Hungary must take a tough stance against Brussels in the field of energy policy, Bence Tuzson said on Thursday in Paks.
There are no conditions in the new legislation brought into force through the amendment of the higher education law that cannot be observed or met, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács highlighted on Friday on the programme 180 minutes of Kossuth Rádió.
The Government expects to have disputes of unprecedented ferocity with Brussels in May and June with respect to the issue of the distribution of immigrants, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 84 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
“There are three major development projects currently underway or under negotiation in Hungarian-Slovenian cooperation, which serve Hungary’s energy security and interests to a high degree”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI during his official visit to Ljubljana.
“Hungary is conforming to EU regulations on protecting the European Union’s external borders, the goal being to ensure that people can only enter Hungary, and accordingly the territory of the European Union, after being checked”, the Minister of Interior said on Thursday in Tompa.
On Wednesday evening, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told Hungarian public television channel M1 that migrants are making more intensive efforts to get into Romania from Serbia, from where they can go on to Hungary.