Following a meeting of EU ministers on Tuesday, Edgars Rinkevics, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia – the current President of the Council of the EU – announced that the ten-point plan presented by the European Commission on Monday provides a suitable basis for a comprehensive migration strategy.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced at a press conference on Tuesday that turning Pécs into a successful city is a matter of honour for the Government, as in the local government elections people had put great faith in the Mayor and the City Council.
It is impossible to sustain the competitiveness of the domestic economy without the success of enterprises, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga stated at the presentation of the “Awards for Successful Enterprises” for the month of April.
An interview with Minister of Justice László Trócsányi was published in Voice Magazin's 1/2015 edition on the ongoing relationship between his Ministry and the American Chamber of Commerce, the newly signed strategic agreement between the two parties, and future plans.
In an interview with public TV channel M1, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said that Hungary shares the opinion that the EU is the victim of migration and not the cause, in the sense that it must deal with the situation in some way.
On 24 April 2015 Szabolcs Takács, Ministerial Commissioner of the Prime Minister’s Office and 2015 Chairman of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), received Ambassadors of the IHRA’s 31 member states and 8 observer states, to mark the start of Hungary’s chairmanship of the organisation.
At the opening ceremony of the Profession Star Festival, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that in 2018 Hungary will host the EuroSkills competition. He said that Hungary’s hosting of the European championship for young professionals symbolises the step forward taken by the country in the world of vocational training.
In an interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán summed up the 2016 budget in the following words: “Everyone can take a step forward’.
A change in the Government’s immigration policy requires wider social support, and therefore the Government has put together a questionnaire of twelve questions as part of a national consultation concerning immigration, economic immigration and terrorism.
At a conference entitled “Dialogue and Identity”, organised on the fourth anniversary of adoption of the Fundamental Law of Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that enacting the Fundamental Law had been a historic undertaking and a necessity. According to the Prime Minister, the greatest difference between the text of the old, “value-neutral” constitution and the Fundamental Law is that the latter “asserts our constitutional identity”.