“121 aeroplanes have brought the equipment necessary for health care protection to Hungary from China to date”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday evening.
As part of the Hungary Helps Programme, the Government of Hungary is contributing HUF 10 million to the refurbishment of churches vandalised by illegal immigrants on the Greek island of Lesbos.
The extraordinary measures implemented in Hungary in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic are compatible with fundamental principles, the Justice Minister stated in a message she sent to Members of the European Parliament on Thursday which she also posted on her Facebook account.
On Thursday, further protective supplies will be delivered to 29 hospitals and to the National Ambulance Service, 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 Thursday.
On Thursday, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office announced the further loosening – with respect to the counties – of the restrictive measures implemented due to the coronavirus epidemic. At an online press conference, Gergely Gulyás said the Pest County coronavirus infection data is closer to that of the countryside, and from now on the government will regard Pest County as a territory coming under the same consideration as the rest of the counties.
“Not only is migration simply present, but it represents an increasingly serious threat”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a video posted to his Facebook page on Thursday following a meeting with the head of the Office of the Prime Minister of Malta.
We have arrived at a stable phase, the epidemic is abating, the Chief Medical Officer said at the Thursday online press conference of the Operational Group responsible for the containment of the coronavirus epidemic.
“The government is doubling the 50-billion forint (EUR 141.5 million) budget of its investment program launched to provide funding to enterprises that realise investment projects this year and thereby preserve workplaces”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on his Facebook page following Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting.
The Justice Minister continues to expect Brussels to give the Hungarian government a chance to state its position in the plenary debate about Hungary to be held in the European Parliament.
“Based on the experience of recent months, in the interests of shortening their supply chains German enterprises could be searching to an even greater extent for Central European opportunities, and accordingly could also be tightening their Hungarian relations”, Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics said following an online meeting with German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier on 12 May 2020. The two ministers discussed the future of, and prospects for, economic cooperation between the two countries in light of the upcoming German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and reviewed progress relating to the affairs of the innovation working group set up by their two heads of government.