Árpád János Potápi, State Secretary for Nation Policy at the Prime Minister’s Office introduced Hungary’s scattered communities policy and the Hungarian Government’s most important programmes intended for young people living in scattered communities in the West at the international conference Diasporas 2017 – International Seminar held in the Israeli Parliament on Tuesday.
After county-ranked cities, the Government will also create a development programme for smaller settlements, the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office announced in Királyhegyes.
The Sentinel 2B satellite was successfully launched from Kourou in French Guyana at 02:49 CET on 7 March 2017, including over 70 pieces of equipment that were designed and manufactured in Hungary.
“Foreign officers serving in Hungary within the framework of the European Union’s border guard agency Frontex also found no fault with the work of police officers and military personnel on duty at the border”, György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television’s Tuesday evening current affairs program.
“We need an agreement between Great Britain and the European Union that does not lead to a deterioration of relations between Hungary and Great Britain”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at the Europe After Brexit conference.
Bertalan Havasi, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has told government news portal kormany.hu that the day after the European Commission authorised Hungarian state funding for expansion of Paks Nuclear Power Plant, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President of Russia Vladimir Putin discussed the project in a telephone conversation.
The European Union will be competitive if the economies of the Member States are also competitive. Hungary therefore scrutinises all economic affairs from a competitiveness viewpoint, and urges action to be taken against the adoption of any decisions, whether at Member State, or EU level, that may undermine and compromise competitiveness, Szabolcs Takács, State Secretary for EU affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office said after the meeting of the EU’s General Affairs Council held on Tuesday in Brussels.
In Budapest on Tuesday, at a swearing-in ceremony for new police officers appointed in the second and third phases of Hungary’s border guard training course, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the migrant flow has not come to an end but only slowed down; he stated that “Now, also, we are under siege”.
“The interests and security of the Hungarian people are the most important to the Hungarian Government, and accordingly we will not be letting a single illegal immigrant into the country until their asylum request is processed”, Chief Press Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tamás Menczer told Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
Based on the Government’s motion, Parliament passed statutory amendments which serve to tighten the legal border closure.