On Wednesday, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister told Hungarian television channel M1 that Hungary represents the correct position on illegal migration, and more and more people have started to acknowledge this in Europe.
Diplomatic and economic issues were on the agenda at bilateral talks held by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó on Tuesday, who is in New York attending the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
At a reception organised in honour of Széchenyi Prize recipients on Tuesday in the Pesti Vigadó building, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that at troubled intellectual and political times, as Hungarians, we can only do one thing: invest in and hold on to what we are the best at, and this is sciences.
On Tuesday in Szolnok, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said that illegal mass migration is regarded as a security issue by the Government, which it has been consistently emphasising since last spring.
The mandatory distribution of refugees among the Member States with a view to resolving the migration crisis is an issue of such gravity that the opinion of the people and European societies cannot be avoided. It gives rise to major concern if the people’s opinion can be swept off the table, Szabolcs Takács stated in Brussels on Tuesday.
One day before the summit in Bratislava, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway instituted proceedings against Hungary because we do not want to take in migrants from them, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office told the newspaper Magyar Nemzet in its Tuesday issue.
It is in Hungary’s economic interest to successfully participate in the imminent change the car industry is facing, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at the E-mobility Forum 2016, an event organized to mark the European Mobility Week.
In Újdörögd on Tuesday, Minister of Defence István Simicskó said that terrorist attacks may occur anytime in Hungary too, so we an increased number of exercises are needed to be conducted that enable us to provide effective security.
On Tuesday, a contingent of 49 Polish police officers and border guards started their duty at the Serbian border section in Csongrád county.
The Ministry of Interior rejects in the strongest terms the claims made by Human Watch Rights, which is again attempting to discredit the Hungarian police and the Office of Immigration.