According to Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, Hungary is ready to “re-button its waistcoat” with regard to Hungarian-Romanian inter-governmental relations. Mr. Semjén spoke about this In his opening speech at the Congress of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) on Saturday in Zilah (Zalău), speaking also to Chairman of the governing Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD) Liviu Dragnea, who was also present at the meeting.
According to Minister of State for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács from the Prime Minister’s Office, the fact that the majority of the British people voted to exit the European Union at the referendum held last June is not a cause of the European Union’s problems, but a direct consequence of those problems.
The criticisms levelled at the national consultation are views that do not concern the essence of democracy as democracy fulfils itself in the consultation, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 87 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács in the Parliament Building.
The system for the promotion of Hungarian communities beyond the borders is fully in place, and every one of its elements is functional, Zsolt Semjén stated. The Deputy Prime Minister responsible for nation policy also reported that there are now 950 thousand new Hungarian citizens thanks to simplified naturalisation.
The European Union that is identifiable with the Brussels bureaucracy is an apple that rolled very far from the tree of its founding fathers, Zsolt Semjén said.
Dr Csaba Latorcai, Deputy State Secretary for Priority Social Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office attended and delivered a speech at the commemoration which was organised by the Austrian Mauthausen Committee on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp.
On 19-20 April 2017, the delegation covering all political groups of the Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX) of the Committee of the Regions paid a visit to Szeged in order to obtain information on the pressure of migration weighing upon Hungary and the measures adopted with a view to its management.
The cause of Hungarian young people and their education in healthy lifestyles is Hungary’s number one national cause, there is nothing more important than that, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Thursday in the locality of Csenger in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County.
Szabolcs Takács, Minister of State for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office had talks with UN High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Valentin Inzko in Budapest on 2 May 2017.
The most important outcome of the Wednesday debate in Brussels is that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the Government defended the country’s interests, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 86.