According to the latest judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union, in the Röszke transit zone the Hungarian government does not guarantee migrants’ rights and keeps them in detention, Justice Minister Judit Varga told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
Not even the coronavirus is able to “override” the government’s fiscal policy pursued since 2010; also during the state of danger, taxes and administrative burdens are being reduced, the Minister of State for Taxation at the Ministry of Finance stated at the Friday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
On Friday afternoon, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping by telephone, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expects that at the end of May the government will be able to return to Parliament the special mandate it was given due to the coronavirus epidemic. The Prime Minister spoke about this on Friday in Belgrade, at a joint press conference held after his talks with Serbian head of state Aleksandar Vucic.
So far in Hungary 363 criminal procedures have been instituted in connection with the epidemic, a staff member of the duty centre of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic said at an online press conference held on Friday.
The virus is still here with us, and so exercising due caution is important; however, with the improvement of the epidemic situation, further health care services will be resumed, the Chief Medical Officer said at the Friday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
“The BMW plant in Debrecen will be built; so far, everything has gone according to the original schedule, the construction site was officially handed over to the investor on Friday”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a Facebook press conference on Friday from Debrecen.
The conditions for restarting life are in place, but we cannot stop our containment efforts, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Friday on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Good morning, Hungary’.
“Hungary is among several countries to which Japan is providing a pharmaceutical that has been shown to be successful in treating the coronavirus at no cost”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a Facebook post on Thursday.
“The situation that has developed because of the coronavirus could generate new waves of migration in the direction of Europe, which in addition to the inherent security and cultural risks, now also represent a threat to health”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó wrote in a Facebook post on Friday following a meeting with his European Union counterparts.