“The positions that Hungary has been stressing for some time with regard to stopping migration are slowly prevailing, one step at a time”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI, based on the news received so far from the EU summit in Malta.
“Thanks to their agricultural and food industry opportunities and their workforce reserves, the regions of the Southern Great Plain represent Hungary’s reserve economic capacities”, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said in Békéscsaba.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán believes that major progress could be achieved if Italy changes its standpoint on handling migration, because then the wave of migrants could be successfully stopped before they enter the European Union.
“German company ThyssenKrupp Springs and Stabilizers will be constructing a new factory in Debrecen with an investment of 35 million euros and the creation of 250 new jobs”, Managing Director of ThyssenKrupp Presta Hungary Ltd. Marc de Bastos Eckstein announced at a press conference in Budapest on Friday.
“Hungary values its cooperation with Russia”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a joint press conference with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Budapest on Thursday.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, informed Hungarian news agency MTI that on Thursday evening Prime Minister Viktor Orbán flew to Malta, where he will be participating in an informal EU summit on Friday.
“The report of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) clearly proves the accountability of Hungary’s socialist governments and Budapest’s pre-2010 municipal leaders in the metro 4 corruption scandal”, The Office of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary State Secretary Nándor Csepreghy said at a press conference in the capital.
“It is clearly in the interests of the Hungarian economy and the Hungarian people for Hungary to maintain relations with Russia that are based on mutual respect and founded on common sense”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Hungarian M1 television on Thursday.
Minister of Defence Dr. István Simicskó received Russian Deputy Minister of Defence Yuriy Ivanovich Borisov for a courtesy visit in Budapest on Wednesday, 1 February.
“Cooperation between Hungary and Russia on heavy industry development projects and technologically intensive sectors will be further tightened”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced.