The German news magazine Focus published an interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán under the title “We are protecting Europe’s values” in its issue to be released on Saturday which was published in digital format on Friday evening.
The Hungarian-Croatian green border was closed at midnight on Friday, and the same border policing method was introduced as on the Hungarian-Serbian section, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács announced in Zákány.
In addition to members of the military, the Member States of the Visegrád cooperation (V4) also offered police personnel to help protect Hungary’s southern border section, the Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said at the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament.
“The success of the Hungarian economic model over the past five years has been realised thanks to cooperation between the state and enterprises, and the goal of the Government is to make cooperation even more congenial”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at the Figyelő Top 200 business conference.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mahmoud Vaezi discussed preparations for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s upcoming visit to Iran and cooperation on information technology at a meeting in Budapest on Thursday.
As of midnight, Hungary will close the Hungarian-Croatian green border, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at his press conference held in Budapest on Friday, after the meeting of the national security cabinet.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and Cuban First Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade Antonio Luis Carricante Corona had talks on Friday in Budapest regarding the options of the repayment of Cuba’s sovereign debt towards Hungary and cooperation between the two countries.
Hungary’s presence in the Latin-American region must be strengthened in order to further increase last year’s Hungarian trade surplus of USD 820 million and thus create more jobs, Deputy State Secretary for Prioritized Enterprise Relations Zoltán István Marczinkó said, following the opening of a business panel discussion at the second Hungary-Latin America Forum in Budapest.
The leaders of EU Member States achieved a partial result at the meeting of the European Council because while they took an important step towards reaching an agreement with Turkey, they failed to decide on the closure of the Greek-Turkish border, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told journalists upon leaving the summit in the early hours of Friday morning.
The EU must present a united front in the interest of the effective management of the migration crisis, and must be able to take the required important measures, the heads of government of the Visegrád Group concluded in their joint statement released after their meeting held before the summit of the European Council on Thursday.