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    • CORONAVIRUS: Here's the latest

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

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    Operational Group: Wearing masks and keeping to a safe social distance is still important

    Colonel Tibor Lakatos said today that following the social distancing rules could prevent a more serious second wave in the fall.

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    Liberal media reports vs. reality, Part 2: Sanctions against scaremongering and the spreading of fake news

    Over the last several weeks of international reporting on Hungary, it’s been a little difficult to find examples of balanced coverage or some semblance of objectivity.

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    FM Szijjártó: Both Ukraine and Hungary must benefit from cooperation

    At today’s press conference, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó signed a protocol amending the agreement.

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    Gergely Gulyás: Epidemiological preparedness remains

    “Hungary has managed to control the spread of the virus, and it is one of the few countries where a period of large-scale illness did not occur,” said Gergely Gulyás today at the Government Info briefing.

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    CORONAVIRUS: 3,867 infected. In compulsory home quarantine: 11,408. Recovered: 2,142. Deceased: 524.

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

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    Immigration

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    You have the right to know: some in Brussels think your national borders are an unfortunate obstacle to immigration

    Feb 28, 2019 - Zoltán Kovács

    Have you noticed how the bureaucrats in Brussels talk about “border management” instead of saying “border protection” or “border defense”? It’s not a coincidence. It betrays a fundamental difference in how we approach migration. For those in the pro-migration lobby, immigration is a positive outcome and national borders are the obstacles.

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    Blog Prime Minister

    PM Orbán: ‘Our goal is that opponents of immigration become a majority in the institutions of the EU’

    Jan 10, 2019

    The upcoming European Parliamentary elections will be decisive, said Prime Minister Orbán at the government’s first press conference of the year in an opening statement before an extended and free-wheeling Q&A session with domestic and international press. As Hungary remains the only EU state that has asked its citizens directly about migration, these EP elections present an opportunity for the people of Europe to decide about the continent’s future.

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    News in Brief

    Here's the questionnare that allows the people to have their say on the Soros Plan

    Sep 29, 2017

    On Wednesday, the government published the national consultation on the Soros plan, one of a series of national consultations in which the government turns to the people in the form of public surveys to ask their opinion on subjects important to their daily lives. This seventh national consultation addresses the Soros Plan to resettle one million migrants in Europe per year. The following is an English-language translation of the questionnaire.

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    Letting the people have their say on the Soros Plan

    Sep 28, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

    On Wednesday, the government published the national consultation on the Soros plan, one of a series of national consultations in which the government turns to the people in the form of public surveys to ask their opinion on subjects important to their daily lives. This seventh national consultation addresses the Soros Plan to resettle one million migrants in Europe per year. The consultation’s fundamental question is: should Hungary become an immigrant country or not?

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    Conservatives should take on “fight with the Left” to save Europe, says PM Orbán

    Mar 30, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

    In the face of a political adversary that wants to transform Europe by allowing unbridled immigration, casting aside subsidiarity and encumbering the labor markets with bureaucratic rules, the center-right political forces of Europe must summon the confidence to “accept the intellectual and political fight with the Left,” said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, addressing the European People’s Party Congress in Malta today.

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