Europe’s institutions have no solutions to all historical issues, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the jubilee ceremony of the Andrássy Gyula Budapest German Language University. Only one issue constitutes an exception to this, the issue of peace which is, however, the most important, the Prime Minister added.
Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told M1 Hungarian television’s Friday morning current affairs program that the referendum is not irrelevant; its goal is to prevent the establishment of a permanent EU mechanism that would lead to the distribution of an undetermined number of migrants.
On Friday at a press conference held in front of the Capital’s Keleti railway station, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said that Hungary is open to offering all possible help with relation to genuine refugees.
On Thursday, prior to an informal meeting of EU leaders in Bratislava, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, in which he asked Mr. Schulz to show respect to the Hungarian people.
According to the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary State Secretary, Brussels is afraid of the 2 October referendum and is doing everything possible to undermine the referendum; they are “behaving sneakily” and applying continuous pressure.
We need a generation which is fully aware that there are issues where we need more Europe, while there are others where we need more nation state, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated at the ceremony held on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment of the Budapest Andrássy University.
The EU should remain the Europe of nations – this is what the Hungarian Prime Minister will stand for, together with the Visegrád countries, at the EU summit to be held in Pozsony (Bratislava) on Friday, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 62 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
“The development of Hungarian infrastructure is required to maintain and increase the country’s competitiveness, in which the railway plays a determinative role”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó emphasised on Thursday in Budapest at the Hungarian Railways 2016 conference.
National economies continue to face considerable challenges, presenters stressed at the conference organized by the Ministry for National Economy in Budapest. Muted competitiveness growth within the global economy was singled out as one of the factors that can aggravate a crisis situation. In Europe, Brexit may further depress competiveness growth.
On Thursday György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told Hungarian television channel M1 that the European Union’s external Schengen borders should be protected by joint European efforts and the deployment of European border and coast guards.