The tourism sector may this year reach record high figures, as the number of guests at accommodation establishments is expected to hit 10 million, the number of tourism nights and the amount of tourism revenues are to exceed 25 million and HUF 35bn, respectively, by the end of the year, Deputy State Secretary for Tourism Ádám Ruszinkó said at a press conference organized to mark World Tourism Day.
The Hungarian and Slovenian police launched a joint patrolling operation on the entire Hungarian-Slovenian border section, and they also supply one another with real-time information on an ongoing basis, the Interior Minister said on Monday at the Rédics-Hosszúfalu (Dolga vas) border crossing point.
European Investment Bank Vice President László Baranyay and Minister for National Economy signed a credit facility agreement providing funding at preferential conditions which helps Hungary broaden the scope of the utilization of EU funding made avaialable for the country, achieve economic development objectives and improve people’s standard of living.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade requests UN officials not to judge the situation in Hungary based on biased, one-sided media reports.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó once again called on the Prime Minister of Croatia to “stop insulting Hungary and the Hungarian people” on Saturday, the Ministry said in a statement issued to Hungarian news agency MTI.
The Slovenian and Hungarian Ministers of Interior will meet to discuss border control and patrolling regulations.
“Holland also views the protection of the European Union’s external borders as an important task”, Minister of State for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács said on Friday following a meeting with Director-General for European Cooperation of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Robert de Groot in the Hague.
After his talks with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner in Vienna on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Austria also acknowledges that a border control system similar to that on the Hungarian-Serbian border must be set up on the Hungarian-Croatian border as well, in the interest of guaranteeing European norms in border crossing.
The world must understand that Hungary “has no problem with the migrants, but the with those who send and entice them“ - Minister of State for Churches, National Minorities and Civil Affairs Miklós Soltész said at a demographic conference in Timisoara, southwest Romania on Thursday. The primary focus of the conference was the demographic situation of western Romanian Banat region, but speakers also discussed the flood of migrants hitting Europe.
“Hungary has increased its agricultural exports to China by 800 percent during the past five years”, the Minister of Agriculture said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday at the 10th Agro-trade & Economic Cooperation Forum between China and Central-Eastern European Countries.