The Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office referred to the fact that the European Commission instituted infringement proceedings against Hungary due to the “Stop Soros” legislative package as unacceptable and as an attack.
In the future the amount of the family housing benefit (csok) will increase in settlements with a population of less than five thousand, and the government is planning a considerable increase also in the case of used properties in those communities, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday in the context of the launch of the Hungarian Villages Programme.
Deputy State Secretary Dr. Ernő Schaller-Baross welcomed the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Deputy Director for EU Exit Strategy Mr. Theo Rycroft for a working lunch on Friday, 13th of July.
Deputy State Secretary for EU Affairs Balázs Molnár attended a panel discussion organised by the Hungarian Embassy in Prague within the framework of the Prague European Summit, following which he held bilateral talks with Jan Král, head of the European Policies Coordination Department of the Czech Prime Minister’s Office.
European Union ministers responsible for general EU affairs met in Luxembourg on Tuesday to discuss migration and the next EU budget. Hungary was represented by Minister of State for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács from the Prime Minister’s Office, who stressed that Hungary will accept no compromise with relation to mandatory quotas.
According to Minister of State for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács from the Prime Minister’s Office, Brussels wants to punish countries that reject immigration and is using legal procedures to apply political pressure.
“Hungary will still take action against migration even if it is not to the liking of the Venice Commission”, Parliamentary State Secretary Balázs Orbán from the Prime Minister’s Office said on Hungarian M1 television’s Monday morning current affairs program.
What is at stake in next week’s Brussels summit of EU leaders is whether EU Member States have the authority to decide themselves whether they wish to become immigrant countries or not, the Minister of State for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office said on Inforadio’s programme Arena.
According to Miklós Soltész, the friendship between Hungary and Poland has improved even further with the fields of church, community and non-governmental relations, and also at the highest level of political relations. The Minister of State from the Prime Minister’s Office spoke to reporters on Monday morning at Budapest’s Keleti Railway Station at the departure of the Black Madonna pilgrimage train to the Shrine of St. Mary in Częstochowa, Poland, which was founded by Hungarian Paulist monks.
“The Visegrád Group (V4) is one regional cooperation that is not aimed against anyone, but which helps EU decision-making through the formulation of a joint opinion”, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stressed at the conference held in Budapest on Friday, marking the end of the Hungarian Presidency of the V4.