A good economic policy creates the foundations for a good family policy, the Minister of Human Resources said in his welcome speech delivered on the second day of the Budapest Demographic Forum.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also commemorated Árpád Göncz, the President of the people and the President of the nation on Friday evening in Lendva in Muravidék (Prekmurje) where a ceremony was held on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Hungarian national autonomous community in the presence of the Hungarian and Slovenian Prime Ministers.
At the ASEM Foreign Ministers' meeting on Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said that in many ways there is no consensus about the migration crisis in Europe, but it is agreed that the root causes have to be treated – and climate change is also one of them.
After his meeting with the foreign representatives of the Visegrád Group, South Korea and Japan in Luxembourg on Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó emphasised that it is certain that Central Europe will be the engine of European growth, because structural reforms have resulted a competitive investment environment.
When receiving Polish border guards who had arrived to protect the Serbian-Hungarian border section, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said that without the protection of external Schengen borders, European law, justice and freedom are at stake in internal regions.
In Makó on Thursday, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár said that, if necessary, the border closure may be constructed along the Hungarian-Romanian border between the Hungarian-Serbian-Romanian triple border and Mezőhegyes.
On Friday Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told public television channel M1 that the amendment of over one hundred pieces of legislation related to reducing bureaucracy and the adoption of the act on e-administration are expected for next spring.
Localities with a population of less than 1,500 may increase the pay of their mayors by as much as 30 per cent if they are able to raise the necessary funds within their budgets, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office told the press at his usual Thursday press conference.
Hungary’s industrial sector output has grown steadily over the past two years, and the 7.8 percent year-on-year growth recorded in the month of September signals that the strong upward momentum persists, Deputy State Secretary for Domestic Economy Áron Márk Lenner told public news channel M1, commenting on industrial output data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).
We have the technical conditions and the necessary live force to protect the country’s borders even if there should be a change in the routes of illegal migration, the Government Spokesperson stressed on the Thursday evening programme of the public service television news channel M1.