The European Union’s greatest strength lies in unity which must not be broken, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Berlin after his talks with German political leaders.
There is a major attack under way against Christian European civilisation; in order to stop it, we need European-Russian-American cooperation, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the most important forum of this cooperation, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stated in Berlin before the informal meeting of the foreign ministers of the OSCE Member States.
The Government will have to reckon with the problem of immigration in the next few years, and will therefore have to reinforce the fence built on the border and live force protection, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 61 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
The Hungarian and Croatian people belong closely together, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said at the opening of the school year at the Croatian Kindergarten, Elementary and Secondary School.
On Thursday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Mohammed bin Hamad Al Rumhy, Minister of Gas and Oil of the Sultanate of Oman. The meeting was also attended by the Chief Executive Officer of MOL, Zsolt Hernádi.
In Budapest, Commander of the Operational Police János Balogh has announced that another police contingent will travel to Macedonia to support border protection efforts at the Macedonian-Greek border and to take action against illegal migration. At the Operational Police Headquarters in Budapest on Thursday Mr. Balogh greeted the contingent of 24 men and one woman.
On Wednesday Csaba Dömötör, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister, told public television channel M1 that the referendum on compulsory settlement is an issue of national importance; it is not about party politics, or the fate of individual parties: it is about Hungary’s future.
State Secretary for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács received Jadranka Joksimovic, Serbian minister without portfolio responsible for EU integration on 31 August 2016. Minister Joksimovic stressed that her visit to Budapest has symbolic significance. As a minister of the recently formed new Serbian Government, this is her first official visit abroad which is intended as a gesture in the strategic cooperation between the two countries.
In the first half of 2016, investment projects worth HUF 1,800 billion were implemented in Hungary, but the second quarter’s investment activity was 20.3 per cent lower than a year earlier and 0.8 per cent lower than in the first quarter. The Government expects investment activity to improve significantly in the period ahead; large companies alone have announced planned developments worth HUF 1,000 billion.
The stability of the South-East European region is a national security and national economic interest, and Hungary will therefore do everything within its power to support Serbia’s EU accession talks, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said after he had talks with the Serbian minister responsible for EU integration.