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Operational Group: The government is doing its utmost to save jobs

Besides wage subsidies, the government has allocated HUF 80 billion to create 70,000 jobs; meanwhile, foreign investors need permission from the ITM minister to acquire ownership in strategic Hungarian companies.

CORONAVIRUS: Here's the latest

A regularly updated feed of the latest information about coronavirus in Hungary.

CORONAVIRUS: 3,771 infected. In compulsory home quarantine: 11,611. Recovered: 1,836. Deceased: 499.

If you have a question call + 36-80-277-455 and + 36-80-277-456 or email koronavirus@bm.gov.hu.

Gergely Gulyás on the European Court of Justice’s new ruling on immigration: It’s dangerous for all of Europe

The transit zone will be abolished, and in the future, asylum seekers will be able to submit their applications in neighboring countries, said Minister Gergely Gulyás at today’s Government Info press conference.

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Hungary is working to ensure UN migration pact does not become international law

Dec 20, 2019

The foreign minister has said Hungary, along with countries such as Poland, is working to ensure that the UN global migration compact does not become a reference point in international law.

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FM: The UN migration pact has everything to facilitate migration but nothing to keep it in check

Jan 09, 2019

"The fact that 40 states did not vote on the migration pact is a clear indication that the attempts to make the document one of international reference lack credibility and are unacceptable," the foreign minister said

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Commissioner Avramopoulos speaking on migration doesn’t represent the whole of Europe

Oct 01, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

Last week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos, an unelected public servant who is charged with representing our common EU standpoint, presented his own views as if they were the common, European policy. That’s a problem. “This man is our employee,” said Prime Minister Orbán. “It is his duty to represent us.”