The official clock counting down to the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championships was started at a few minutes before 10 a.m. on Sunday afternoon on Erzsébet Square in Budapest.
“Hungary will stick to its migration policy because it is convinced that it is acting in a legally correct manner and the border protection system not only serves the security of Hungarian citizens, but that of all European citizens”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said.
The adoption of the Digital Prosperity Programme in December 2015 also meant that the Government had decided on the development of specialised digital strategies.
“Europe is facing a migration crisis, not a refugee crisis”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told German national public television station ZDF on Friday.
Szabolcs Takács, State Secretary for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office had talks on 16 March 2017 with Karlheinz Kopf, Second President of the Austrian National Council.
The Government would look into the regulation of the operation of breweries, and the relationship between large companies and smaller Hungarian players as well as businesses in the catering industry, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday in Hódmezővásárhely.
On Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” programme on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the second security fence now being built on the Hungarian border will, if necessary, block the path of even the largest numbers of migrants coming from the direction of Turkey.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief, has told kormany.hu that on Friday morning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received deputy speakers from the Polish, German and Austrian legislatures in the Parliament building in Budapest.
Speaking in Tel Aviv before representatives of the local Hungarian community, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog highlighted the two peoples’ love of freedom, praised the heyday of Jewish life in Hungary and spoke about passing on traditions to future generations and about successful cooperation between Hungary and Israel at a reception at the Hungarian Embassy in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening.
Egyptian Jesuit monk P. Henri Boulad S.J. took the oath of Hungarian citizenship in the Parliament Building in Budapest on Thursday.