On Friday Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson told public television channel M1 that it is the Government’s responsibility to inform people and to draw their attention to the threats from mandatory resettlement.
In Felcsút on Monday, after the final of the Puskás Suzuki Cup, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary shall rise again in international football; its clubs will be successful, as well as the national team.
Bertalan Havasi, the head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, told kormany.hu on Saturday that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s declaration of assets is true and correct, complies with the law, and is complete.
Following a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels on Friday, István Mikola declared that “It is practically inconceivable that the free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States could come into being before the end of this year; if such a treaty does come about at all, it will take years”.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó was in Sarajevo today to discuss security, economic, transport and diplomatic cooperation, from where, in a telephone interview with Hungarian news agency MTI, he stressed: “It is in Hungary’s fundamental security interests for Bosnia-Hercegovina to integrate as soon as possible into those organisations that represent a guarantee to the security and stability of the Western Balkan country”.
“The Government trusts that the referendum will provide it with a clear mandate on what standpoint it should represent with relation to the compulsory resettlement quotas. The Government does not wish to place pressure on Brussels, but will instead be presenting a clear political standpoint”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told reporters in Budapest.
The Visegrád Group’s Environment Ministers attended a two-day meeting in the Czech town of Lednice. Hungary was represented at the discussions by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Minister of State for Environmental Affairs Zsolt V. Németh.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has stated that no one – not even former US President Bill Clinton – should feel he can insult Hungarians.
Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér and Minister of Justice László Trócsányi both gave speeches at the meeting of Interior Ministers of countries with inland Schengen borders in Szeged, which ended with the adoption of a joint statement on 13 May 2016.
Commenting on the process designed to set up an energy union to facilitate the creation of an EU-level energy market, the State Secretary at the Ministry of National Development responsible for energy affairs told news channel M1 that Hungary agrees with the need to strengthen regional cooperation on energy security and energy supply.