Not everyone is pleased with the Hungarian Government pursuing conservative values, the Minister said in his interview, adding that Hungary does not reject others' views and only expects respect from them. One of the criticisms towards Hungary is that the constitution contains the line: “God bless the Hungarians”, even though several other countries’ constitutions include God as well.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó is participating on a Hungarian-Vietnamese economic joint committee meeting in Hanoi.
Foreign Minister János Martonyi held talks with French counterpart Laurent Fabius in Paris on 29 October and the two agreed on maintaining cooperation in economic and cultural projects.
The Government desires a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU), Hungary’s chief negotiator Mihály Varga stated in Hungarian television HírTV’s program, Rájátszás.
According to press information, the European Court of Human Rights has amerced Hungary in two cases in connection with taking three foreign asylum seekers into custody.
Following an initiative from the Hungarian Red Cross, the Government has drafted new legislation to regulate the operational environment of the humanitarian organisation, as an acknowledgement of the exemplary activities the NGO has carried out in Hungary for very many years. The social debate on the proposal began on 27 October.
In the future Hungarian economic policy will concentrate on investments and igniting economic growth – Minister for National Economy György Matolcsy said in Budapest at an event organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary (AmCham) on Monday.
The Government will discuss its plans to take over a part of local government’s debt at its session on 7 November, Government Spokesman András Giró-Szász said on public television M1 on Monday.
By the end of the year the government will have spent 8.5 billion forints (EUR 30m) on services to homeless people, Miklós Soltész, State Secretary for Social, Family and Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Human Resources said on Saturday.
The autonomy of Transylvanian Hungarians is a cause for all Hungarians as the achievements of Romania's ethnic Hungarian minority have an impact on the entire Hungarian nation and Hungary itself, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh, told a conference, marking the 20th anniversary of the Cluj (Kolozsvár) Declaration.