Egyptian Jesuit monk P. Henri Boulad S.J. took the oath of Hungarian citizenship in the Parliament Building in Budapest on Thursday.
On 16 March 2017, Szabolcs Takács, State Secretary for EU Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office had talks with Marianne Thyssen, EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility.
Hungary is standing at the gate of greatness, but can only become a great, strong and growing country once again in unity, with cooperation and courage, and with the suspension of petty party disputes, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday in Hódmezővásárhely.
The same as in 1848, also today we need courage so that the country may become strong, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday in Makó.
The Government has taken care of Hungary’s power needs and low electricity prices for a period of sixty years by virtue of the Paks atomic power station project, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 81 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács. The Minister described the approval by the European Commission of the funding of Paks II as the greatest economic diplomacy achievement of the past 30 years.
Árpád János Potápi, State Secretary for Nation Policy at the Prime Minister’s Office introduced Hungary’s scattered communities policy and the Hungarian Government’s most important programmes intended for young people living in scattered communities in the West at the international conference Diasporas 2017 – International Seminar held in the Israeli Parliament on Tuesday.
After county-ranked cities, the Government will also create a development programme for smaller settlements, the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office announced in Királyhegyes.
The European Union will be competitive if the economies of the Member States are also competitive. Hungary therefore scrutinises all economic affairs from a competitiveness viewpoint, and urges action to be taken against the adoption of any decisions, whether at Member State, or EU level, that may undermine and compromise competitiveness, Szabolcs Takács, State Secretary for EU affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office said after the meeting of the EU’s General Affairs Council held on Tuesday in Brussels.
The European Commission may consent to the state grant to be provided for the enlargement of the Paks atomic power station in the near future, Attila Aszódi, the Government Commissioner responsible for the maintenance of the performance of the Paks atomic power station said on Monday on the public service television news channel M1.
The Government is extending the state of crisis caused by mass immigration with respect to the entire territory of the country by six months, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the press conference Governmentinfo 80 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.