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CORONAVIRUS: Here's the latest

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

Operational Group: Cinemas and theatres could reopen soon

Parliament will vote on the elimination of the state of danger on June 16, and the special legal order may end on June 20.

CORONAVIRUS: 3,970 infected. In compulsory home quarantine: 9,693. Recovered: 2,245. Deceased: 542.

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

Mainstream media vs. reality, Part 3: Hungary’s economic response to coronavirus

The Hungarian government has been doing everything it can to help the country’s economy return to growth. And we’re doing it as we always have: by focusing on jobs.

Migration Quota

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FM: UN law stokes migration

Sep 26, 2019

“There is no such thing as people waking up one morning with the decision that they want to live in another country, and in order to do so will breach dozens of countries and their sovereignty,” Minister Szíjjártó said.

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FM: Hungary will not bow to pressure or blackmail over migrant quotas

Sep 18, 2019

“We will not yield to the blackmail of either Soros’ NGOs, western (European) governments or Brussels,” Minister Szíjjártó said. “We will not implement the compulsory settlement quota and we will continue to oppose it as we did so far.”

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Wondering what PM Orbán meant with that reference to the Soros plan? Here it is

Aug 04, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has made a number of references to a Soros plan to bring one million “refugees and migrants” into Europe each year. Some are skeptical, but the doubters haven’t familiarized themselves with the facts. The plan is real.

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Hungary's foreign minister responds to Austrian Chancellor's comments on migrant resettlement quotas

Jul 28, 2017

Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said Europe wants to punish countries that do not want to allow illegal immigrants through their borders

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EC to conduct "show trial" against Hungary over migrant distribution quotas

Jul 14, 2017

Pál Völner, state secretary at the Justice Ministry, pointed out how the EC had not launched infringement procedures against all member states that have refused to comply with the scheme

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Hungarians have decided that they do not want illegal immigrants in their country

Jun 16, 2017

PM Orbán insisted that “record high” participation in the government’s latest nationwide public survey means that “a whole nation is looking for ways to support its position of denying entry to people of a different culture or civilization”

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The V4 group "stands united" on the issue of migration

Jun 13, 2017

The 2015 EU decision of issuing a migrant quota to every member state “is unacceptable because it goes against common sense and because it infringes upon EU treaties”