The most important task will be to keep Europe together, and to that end we must also take into consideration the specificities of the countries of Central Europe, former Minister President of Bavaria Edmund Stoiber stated at a conference held on Thursday in Budapest on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Tristan Azbej, Minister of State for Helping Persecuted Christians and the Implementation of the Hungary Helps Programme at the Prime Minister’s Office paid a visit to Jordan to inaugurate local humanitarian projects implemented with Hungarian funding and support. The basic tenet of the Hungary Helps Programme is that help must be taken where there are problems, rather than bringing problems here.
The government looks upon the capital’s new leadership as a partner, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at a press conference held jointly with Mayor of Budapest Gergely Karácsony.
The government parties welcome the decision of President of the Republic János Áder to re-nominate incumbent chief prosecutor Péter Polt for the post, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
On 28 October Tristan Azbej, Minister of State for Helping Persecuted Christians and the Implementation of the Hungary Helps Programme at the Prime Minister’s Office was received by Rehman Chishti, the United Kingdom’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief in his office in order to conduct consultations regarding the experiences of the Hungary Helps Programme launched at the end of 2016.
Whether – according to long-standing traditions – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will deliver a ceremonial speech on 23 October depends on international events; more specifically, on the development of the Brexit process, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief said on Thursday in response to the enquiry of the Hungarian news agency MTI.
The past four years of the Polish government and the past nine years of the Hungarian government legitimise the idea of a Europe of nations, Balázs Orbán, the Parliamentary and Strategic State Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office said at a book launch event held on Thursday in Budapest.
The Hungarian government continues to reject the distribution of migrants in the European Union on the basis of any quotas, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stated at a press conference held on Thursday in Budapest.
The Government has launched a new website called Külhoni Magyarok (Hungarians Abroad), aimed at presenting the life of Hungarian communities living outside Hungary’s borders and the work that their mother country does for them in an innovative manner.
“The Hungarian people are sympathetic towards the world’s suffering Christians and support the Government’s efforts”, State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and the Realisation of the Hungary Helps Program Tristan Azbej from the Prime Minister’s Office said at a workshop discussion in Budapest to present the results of the latest survey on the subject.