“Hungary and Hong Kong represent the two ends of China’s concept of the modern Silk Road”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Hong Kong on Thursday.
“However slowly, but in the countries of Europe there is a growing awareness of danger that is caused by existing conflicts worldwide and by the presence of terrorists flowing in with illegal, mass and uncontrolled immigration”, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister stressed on M1 Hungarian television's Thursday morning current affairs programme.
Mr. Szilveszter Bus, Deputy State Secretary for Opening to the South represented the Hungarian Government at the “Tunisia 2020” international investment conference held in Tunis on November 29-30, 2016.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has presented Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borissov with the Civil Division of the Hungarian Order of Merit. In his address, Mr. Orbán said that once again Europe’s fate is being decided at Bulgaria’s southern borders, and that the Bulgarians are not only standing up for their own country and strengthening Hungary’s security, but are defending the whole of Europe.
“The Cabinet supports families in many different ways and families are considered the fundamental elements of society”, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson declared.
Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed kormany.hu that in the Parliament Building on Tuesday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjörn Jagland on the most important issues currently affecting the future of the European continent.
Bertalan Havasi, Minister of State heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has told kormany.hu that “After an earthquake caused a mine to collapse in Poland, leaving one person dead and several missing, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conveyed his personal condolences and those of the people of Hungary to Polish prime minister Beata Szydło ”. The death toll has since risen.
“Hungary put forward three concrete proposals for the acceleration od the European Union enlargement process on Tuesday in Warsaw”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a joint press conference held by the Visegrád Group foreign ministers and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, following talks in the Polish capital that also included the foreign ministers of six Western Balkan countries.
Hungary will support the cooperation of Hungarian and Bangladeshi businesses by relying on new means, Eximbank will open a credit facility worth USD 90 million for the purpose, and the Hungarian Government will offer 100 scholarship grants to young Bangladeshi students to study at Hungarian universities, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday at the Hungarian-Bangladeshi Business Forum in Budapest.
After a meeting of the Seniors Council on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that next year pensions will increase by 1.6 per cent, and this year every pensioner will receive food and restaurant vouchers (“Erzsébet Vouchers”) to the value of HUF 10,000.