Lufthansa Technik’s new aircraft engineering centre where fifty highly qualified engineers will work has been inaugurated in Budapest. At the event Péter Szijjártó stressed that the world’s industry and economy are entering a new era in which high technology, the automation of transport and digitisation will dominate.
After the Soviet Union had invaded Hungary in 1956, Canada gave shelter to some 40 thousand Hungarians, and compared to the number of total population no other country has become the second home of so many persecuted Hungarians, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga stressed at the Hungarian Canadian Cultural Centre of Toronto. Invited by Canada-based Hungarian organizations, the Minister has attended various events in Toronto.
At a press conference held in the Budapest Riot Police Headquarters, National Police Chief Károly Papp said that on Monday, twenty Hungarian police officers set off to Serbia for the protection of the Serbian-Bulgarian border.
György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister told Hungarian public television channel M1 that Hungary shows solidarity towards other defending and war-torn countries, and it has granted political asylum to a vast number of refugees who could enter the country as a result.
At the official state celebration held in Kossuth Lajos Square in Budapest on Sunday to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that today the task of Europe’s freedom-loving peoples is to “save Brussels from sovietisation”.
In Brussels on Friday, after a meeting of the European Union’s heads of state and government, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the approval of mandatory resettlement quotas was successfully prevented, and no decision that is contrary to Hungary’s best interests was adopted at the summit.
At his press conference on Friday in Brussels, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that amendment of the Constitution will clarify the question of where each party stands, and whether they see this issue as a national cause.
“The Hungarian Government would like to have the issue of the mandatory relocation quota permanently removed from the agenda at the next EU summit”, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson said on Hungarian M1 television’s Friday evening current affairs programme.
“The Hungarians know what it means for others to decide their fate, and for this reason they feel it is indispensable to take their lives into their own hands and control it themselves; the right to self-determination is extremely important to them”, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog declared in an interview on Swiss public radio SRF.
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the revolution of 1956, Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations has held a palatial commemoration on 17th of October in Unites Nations Headquarters in New York.