“One of the critically injured victims of the Verona bus accident, who has been receiving treatment in Verona, will be transported home to the Honvéd Hospital In Budapest on Wednesday”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced.
The Government will repeatedly extend the crisis situation introduced on account of mass immigration until the beginning of September, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister’s said.
“The Danube-Ipoly National Park is launching a conservation programme in Komárom-Esztergom County with a total budget of 585 million forints (EUR 1.9M) to restore the aquatic habitats of the Tát islands and to protect bat colonies in the Gerecse, Pilis and Vertes Hills”, the National Park’s Director, András Füri, announced at a press conference in Esztergom on Monday.
“Our traditional, indigenous species, such as the Mangalitsa, are of key importance with regard to landscape protection; they form part of the Hungarian landscape, folk traditions are linked to them and they are part of our national identity and symbols of Hungary”, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Parliamentary State Secretary István Nagy said in his opening speech at the 10th Budapest Mangalitsa Festival.
Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Prime Minister’s Press Office, has informed kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and András Heisler, President of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz), met in the Parliament Building on Tuesday evening. They discussed joint tasks to be performed in 2017 and the problems and plans of the Jewish community in Hungary, including the development of the religious community’s institutions.
In an interview with the magazine of the National Public Service University, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that the Government is seeking to ensure that all leaders of state institutions – either at regional or central levels – receive training in state administration and political science.
The Government will submit to Parliament the legislative package on the detention of illegal migrants on Tuesday, Bence Tuzson, State Secretary for Government Communication announced at his press conference held in Budapest.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó is on an official visit to Japan, where on Tuesday he held talks on the expansion of Hungarian food industry exports to Japan and on possible Japanese automobile investment projects in Hungary; the Minister gave a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI following the negotiations.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief, informed kormany.hu that, on behalf of the Hungarian people, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had sent a letter wishing Polish prime minister Beata Szydło strength and good health as she recovers from injuries sustained in a car accident.
The Government would like for the Hungarian people themselves to have the right to decide on issues determining their future, and to prevent Brussels from engaging in stealthy legislation in other areas, similar to the issue of immigration, Csaba Dömötör said at a press conference.