According to Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, there is a need for a national consultation because the Government’s position is not enough in this battle on its own; it is also necessary for the Hungarian people to back it up.
Minister of State for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács from the Prime Minister’s Office held talks with Austrian Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs Michael Linhart on 5 October 2017.
Minister of State Szabolcs Takács received Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) in his office on 5 October 2017. The meeting was also attended by Minister of State for Labour Market and Training Péter Cseresnyés, Deputy State Secretary for Labour Market Dr Attila Simon, and representatives of Hungarian trade unions.
The mandatory immigrant distribution quotas have failed, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stated at the press conference Governmentinfo 100 where he also said: the postal delivery of the national consultation questionnaires concerning the Soros plan has begun.
The channelling of EU funds to the economy can only account for a narrow segment of development policy; the competitiveness of a country is determined by the combined competitiveness of the State, the economy and society, Nándor Csepreghy, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office stressed at the conference Portfolio Budapest Economic Forum 2017.
“The quota system has failed”, Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár said at the Governmentinfo 99 press conference, explaining: member states accepted only 29 percent of the numbers prescribed by the European Commission by the 26 September deadline.
It is incomprehensible with a democratic way of thinking that the word of an extremely rich individual from America “is worth more in Brussels that that of a Member of the European Parliament”, Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár said in analysis of the influence of George Soros in an interview for Hungarian daily Magyar Idők (Hungarian Times).
Minister of State for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács from the Prime Minster’s Office held talks with European Commissioner for the Security Union Julian King on 21 September 2017 in Budapest.
Those who jeopardise Hungarian interests can expect to have to face the Hungarian State, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 98 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
Szabolcs Takács, Minister of State for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office had talks with EU Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc on 19 September 2017.