Brussels and the United Nations clearly share the goal of legalising illegal migration, Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s foreign minister, said after a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday. Continue reading “Szijjarto: Brussels, UN share goal to legalise illegal migration”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday congratulated Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who on Thursday was elected leader of Germany’s senior ruling party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the prime minister’s press chief told MTI. Continue reading “Orban congratulates Kramp-Karrenbauer”
Fidesz MEP Tamas Deutsch has said that the European Parliament’s “pro-migration majority has gone haywire” over the issue of migration visas. Continue reading “Deutsch: EP’s pro-migration majority haywire”
As it has done with the United Nations’ migration pact, Hungary rejects the organisation’s global refugee pact as well, the foreign minister said on Friday, arguing that the document was dangerous and could encourage more migration. Continue reading “Hungary rejects the UN refugee pact too”
“I see signs of exhaustion at the end of the parliamentary term”, but after next year’s elections to the European Parliament there will be new MEPs, and “I believe that the quality of democracy will improve,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on the Kossuth Radio programme “Good Morning, Hungary”. Continue reading “Orban: Fresh blood needed in the EP”
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in a letter to Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, expressed his “surprise” that the WJC leader had asked him “to limit freedom of speech and the freedom of the press” by calling on him to condemn an image that recently appeared on the cover of business weekly Figyelo, which Lauder had called anti-Semitic. Continue reading “Orban to Lauder: ‘You’re asking me to limit press freedom’”
“Hungary has confirmed its previous promise to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, according to which it will be offering the majority of the capacity that will soon become available when the UN mission to Cyprus expires to NATO towards its involvement in Afghanistan and Kosovo”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto announced in Brussels on Wednesday in a statement to reporters. Continue reading “Hungary is increasing its involvement in Afghanistan and Kosovo”
