“While maintaining our friendship and unconditional commitment towards Ukraine, we will make a stand in the strongest possible terms against any and all efforts to restrict or threaten with restriction the success and prosperity of Subcarpathian Hungarians and their continued existence as Hungarians”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy declared on Wednesday in Beregszász (Berehove) at a ceremony to commemorate Hungary’s 15 March national holiday.
At a ceremony held outside the Hungarian National Museum on 15 March, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the fifteenth of March is irrefutable proof that we were, we are and we will be: “this is our triumph”.
Hungary is standing at the gate of greatness, but can only become a great, strong and growing country once again in unity, with cooperation and courage, and with the suspension of petty party disputes, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday in Hódmezővásárhely.
The same as in 1848, also today we need courage so that the country may become strong, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday in Makó.
Hungary’s national flag was raised amidst a military parade, in the presence of President of the Republic János Áder, on the anniversary of the 1848-49 revolution and freedom fight on Wednesday morning in Budapest, outside the Parliament Building in Kossuth Lajos tér.
The enlargement project which is ongoing also at present at the Vác Maximum Security Prison and Penitentiary Facility with the involvement of the inmates will provide prison accommodation for 120 prisoners.
Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács responded to an article published in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times in a blog post.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief, has told kormany.hu that, to mark the national holiday on 15 March, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent greetings to his Hungarian compatriots beyond the borders. The message will be read out at local celebrations held in a number of settlements around the Carpathian Basin.
The Hungarian Government will initiate a dialogue with the German car manufacturer company Opel and its new owner, the French PSA Group, in order to maintain or further enlarge their capacity in Hungary, the factory in Szentgotthárd, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told the Hungarian news agency MTI after his meeting with Opel’s executives held at the company’s headquarters in Rüsselsheim.
The Government has created the framework for the dignified commemoration of the 1848-1849 revolution and freedom fight, and everyone will have to celebrate in a dignified manner within that framework, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said at his Tuesday press conference held outside the Hungarian National Museum.