The Czech Republic’s new prime minister, Andrej Babis said in an interview with Hungarian weekly Figyelo that he thinks his country is developing well even without the euro, and that he agrees with Viktor Orban regarding the rejection of mandatory quotas. Continue reading “Babis on Orban’s side against the quota”
Hungarian news site Pesti Sracok interviewed several left-wing and liberal MEPs at the European Parliament’s last plenary session in Strasbourg this week, asking them mainly about migration. Continue reading “MEPs blast the Orban government”
European Union member states should show “appropriate solidarity” in handling the migrant crisis, Zoltan Balog, Hungary’s minister of human resources, told German public radio Deutschlandfunk on Saturday. Continue reading “Balog calls on EU countries to show ‘appropriate solidarity’”
European Union leaders saw eye to eye on the importance of border protection and preventing illegal migrants from entering the EU, but there continues to be disagreement on such issues as resettlement and immigration, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in the early hours of Friday, summing up the first day of the EU summit in Brussels.
Continue reading “Orban: Political fistfight in Brussels over migration”
Prime ministers of the Visegrad Four countries have agreed to contribute 35 million euros to finance a border control programme in Libya, according to a joint declaration released by the Hungarian prime minister’s office on Thursday. Continue reading “V4 countries to contribute to Libya border control”
The Hungarian government agrees with European Council President Donald Tusk that the European Union’s mandatory quota for refugees is “a divisive and ineffective way to handle the migration crisis”, the Hungarian government office chief said at his weekly press conference on Thursday. Continue reading “Lazar: Tusk is right, the quota is ineffective”
Parliament adopted on Tuesday a resolution proposed by ruling Fidesz rejecting the European Parliament’s November 16 decision on mandatory quotas on the relocation of asylum seekers. Continue reading “Lawmakers reject EP decision on migration”
The Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister will prepare measures by January’s government meeting with the aim to thwart the “Soros plan”, cabinet office chief Antal Rogan said on Monday during a hearing before parliament’s justice committee. Continue reading “Government prepares measures against ‘Soros plan’ – Rogan”
“There’s always been migration, in Europe, in America, in South America or in Africa, it will never end. We can reduce it a bit by building fences, but migration won’t stop. So we have to organise it”, German MEP Birgit Sippel told Hungarian public news channel M1. Continue reading “German MEP: We have to organise migration”
An overwhelming majority of voters who participated in the government survey dubbed as national consultation rejected the “Soros plan”, state secretary for government communication Bence Tuzson said in Budapest on Sunday. Continue reading “National consultation: overwhelming majority rejects Soros plan”
