The study published today by Transparency International Hungary does not reveal anything new. What it states is exactly what Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár has been saying about the National Development Agency since it was taken over by the Prime Minister’s Office in August 2013. The agency had been “operating as a state within a state”, and the Prime Minister’s Office dissolved it in 2014.
Hungary is not changing Egypt’s security rating regarding travel advice as long as it is not in possession of information which would call for such a measure, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at his press conference held jointly with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Cairo on Saturday in the wake of the airline disaster which occurred a week ago.
Péter Szijjártó takes the view that Croatia’s Interior Minister was blinded by the heat of the election campaign, and this is obviously the reason why he told multiple lies regarding Hungary in a single interview, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told the Hungarian News Agency MTI on Friday.
Hungarian reforms are working: Moody’s has upgraded Hungary’s credit rating outlook from stable to positive. Thus, Hungary has been given a positive outlook by two out of the three largest international credit rating agencies, signalling an impending upgrade.
Chief Security Advisor of the Prime Minister György Bakondi said that it is only from the direction of Romania that people crossed the Hungarian border illegally, that is why the Government particularly focuses on stopping the Hungarian-Romanian border section from becoming the migrants’ new route.
The problem of mass migration to Europe can only be successfully resolved through international cooperation, the Interior Minister said when he addressed the fifty police personnel whom Hungary is sending to Slovenia to contribute to the efforts aimed at the protection of the EU’s external borders.
Politicians, civil representatives, as well as religious and scientific leaders of eighteen countries acknowledged the Hungarian efforts according to which the future of Europe can only be built on families, Minister of State for Churches, Minorities and Civil Affairs Miklós Soltész said at the family day concluding the proceedings of the Budapest Demographic Forum on Saturday.
Hungary can only be strong through the reinvigoration of provinces, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said on Saturday at the closing event of the Gáspár Károli program in the northern Hungarian town of Gönc.
Despite the difficulties it faced in past years, the Hungarian Government has always focused on opportunities instead of obstacles, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at the presentation ceremony of the Awards for Successful Enterprises.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán finds it unacceptable that others should decide outside Hungary “with whom we should live together”.