Speaking in the opening session of the two-day NATO Transformation Seminar on Wednesday in Budapest, Minister of Defence István Simicskó said that NATO is “the guarantee of security”, and the member states “must think together in order to come up with efficient answers” to the challenges.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó inaugurated the new Hungarian Embassy in Washington on Tuesday. In his speech, he stressed, amongst others, that Hungary would like a joint success story with the United States.
Péter Szijjártó is in Washington D.C., where he met with two of President Donald Trump’s influential advisors. On Tuesday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade officially opened the new Hungarian Embassy and on Wednesday he will be participating in a summit of foreign ministers of the global coalition against terrorism.
The central sub sector of the state budget closed the first two months of 2017 with a surplus of EUR 180.4bn, the best figure in the past fifteen years. Fiscal data already show that measures introduced under the six-year wage increase and tax reduction agreement are taking effect.
On Thursday 16 March, the Embassy of Hungary screened a short documentary entitled “The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - 60 years later. The 1956 Commemoration Season in the Netherlands” to a special audience in The Hague. The documentary was produced by Netherlands-based Hungarian filmmaker Csaba Bogádi and reflects upon eleven events that were organised throughout the Netherlands from August to November 2016 and attended by over 7000 visitors.
At a press conference held with Mayor Zsolt Fekete at the Salgótarján stop on the Modern Cities Programme, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that a growth path must be outlined which will enable Salgótarján to be turned from a losing city into a winning city.
“The Hungarian Government will not change its policies despite the pressure it is being put under; to us, Hungary comes first”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
Brussels may not restrict Internet access in the 21th century through blocking the use of a preferential VAT rate, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, following an ECOFIN meeting in Brussels. The Government wants Internet access for more and more people at reasonable prices, therefore it will do all it can to make sure that besides Hungary any member state, which considers digitalization to be important, is capable of applying a preferential VAT rate.
The reinforced legal border barrier will come into force next Tuesday – the related Act has been published in the Hungarian Gazette.
“The masses of people arriving from Libya and other African countries represent an increasing problem not just for the security of Italy, but with regard to that of the whole European Union, and accordingly requires a European solution”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television’s Tuesday evening current affairs programme.