All religious denominations, including members of the Jewish community, can exercise their faith in safety in Hungary, unlike in a number of Western European countries in which anti-Semitism has intensified in consequence of migration, Szabolcs Takács, Minister of State for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office said at the Ferrara plenary meeting of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) which ended on Thursday.
The Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office finds it unacceptable that the European Parliament will repeatedly vote on the migrant (humanitarian) visa. In light of the fact that the proposal has already been rejected once before, this procedure is anti-democratic, Gergely Gulyás said at the press conference Governmentinfo.
The Government of Hungary is supporting the Open Hospitals Syrian humanitarian initiative because it agrees that communities and families in need should be assisted in the vicinity of their homeland, and with enabling these communities to remain in place and assisting those who have fled to return home.
“When cloaked political proceedings are conducted against Hungary because of its differing opinion with relation to immigration, the European values professed by the European Union are damaged”, Minister of State for EU Relations Judit Varga declared in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Brussels on Monday.
“In the debate on the future of the EU, Hungary and Estonia are taking a stand in favour of a strong and competitive European Union that respects the sovereignty of member states, in addition to concentrating on the security of citizens and economic development”, Minister of State for EU Policy Szabolcs Takács said on Friday in Budapest following bilateral talks with Estonian Undersecretary for EU Affairs Matti Maasikas.
The Council for Metropolitan Public Developments formed on Saturday increases the role of the Mayor of Budapest and the metropolitan municipality in decisions related to Budapest developments, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at a press conference held after the establishment of the council.
In contrast to the assumptions and pieces of false new that have been published in the press, neither the Hungarian State nor the Hungarian authorities helped Nikola Gruevski leave Macedonia.
Balázs Orbán, Parliamentary and Strategic State Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office and Ernő Schaller-Baross, Deputy State Secretary for International Affairs had talks with members of the British government and British MPs regarding the latest developments of the process of Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Due to a number of unclear circumstances, the government will submit official enquiries to the EU and the UN regarding the issue of migrant bank cards, said Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office at the press conference Governmentinfo.
Nikola Gruevski has submitted an asylum request to the competent Hungarian authority. The former prime minister of Macedonia has made a declaration of his intention to submit a request for refugee status in Hungary.