Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has rejected comments on Hungary made by the Swedish Prime Minister with relation to the immigration crisis on Tuesday, which he said were unacceptable.
At a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Law Enforcement on Tuesday, designate Minister of Defence István Simicskó urged closer cooperation with the Ministry of Interior and the Counter-Terrorism Centre, in order to identify terrorists.
Following a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Law Enforcement on Tuesday, designate Minister of Defence István Simicskó said that construction of the border barrier and acceleration of the work is of primary importance.
"It is extremely hypocritical and unethical” for certain western politicians to threaten to withdraw financial support while Europe is searching for a solution to one of the greatest challenges the EU has ever faced, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
The Government’s strategic partners created some 13 thousand new jobs and increased investment by several hundreds of billions of forints, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said, evaluating results achieved since the signing of cooperation agreement with Siemens Ltd two years ago at the company’s production facility in Csepel.
At a meeting held on Tuesday with Director of Hungarian Interchurch Aid László Lehel and Head of the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta Imre Kozma, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán thanked the organisations for their work in helping migrants.
August was again a month with subdued and highly favourable inflation in Hungary. In comparison to the corresponding period of the previous year, consumer price inflation was flat. In the initial eight months of 2015, consumer prices fell by 0.2 percent year-on-year.
In light of data from the month of July, the volume of industrial output is expected to rise also in the second half of the year, Minister of State for Economic Regulation Béla Glattfelder told public news channel M1, commenting on preliminary data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH).
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told newspaper Magyar Idők that the construction of the border barrier must be accelerated.
On Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár made an unannounced visit to the area of Mórahalom, public news channel M1 has reported.