Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó received MKP President József Berényi, who informed the Minister about the party’s preparations for the Slovakian election campaign and the current status of the Hungarian minority in Upper Hungary, the Ministry said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday.
The justice ministers of the Member States of the European Union attended a conference entitled “Criminal justice response to radicalisation” in Brussels on Monday.
Denmark agrees with Hungary in many respects as to how the migration crisis should be managed, Szabolcs Takács, State Secretary for EU Affairs of the Prime Minister’s Office told the Hungarian News Agency MTI by telephone on Monday upon rendering an account of his visit to Copenhagen.
In the initial eight months of the year, wages in real terms increased significantly, by 3.9 percent year-on-year, according to the flash report of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) published earlier this morning. Thus, a positive wage growth trend has been in place for the 32nd month in a row. The number of private sector jobs – at enterprises with at least five employees – also grew outstandingly, by 50 thousand, compared to August 2014.
Land must be entrusted to those who know how to use it, and arable land must therefore be given to farmers, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Parliament on Monday where several Members of Parliament from opposition parties queried him during question time.
The Ministry of Human Capacities and the World Health Organization (WHO) have jointly assessed the challenges related to migration.
Developments in recent weeks have ascertained that the Hungarian Government’s policy concerning the management of the migration crisis situation is successful. It is coming to light increasingly that even those are beginning to admit this who formerly criticised it.
Antal Rogán took the oath of office as Minister of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister.
The Schengen system may disintegrate, may simply cease to exist if the European Union is unable to protect its external borders, and this would have unforeseeable economic effects, Péter Szijjártó said at the event where the latest, 2015 country report of the Hungarian European Business Council under the title For a stronger Hungary in a stronger Europe was presented.
The southern security border closure is working; it successfully performs the function which the Government intended for it, that is, to prevent illegal border-crossing, the Government Spokesperson stated in Nagykanizsa.