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    • Budapest Summit on Migration: The migration crisis today cannot be compared with what we saw in 1956

    "Mass migration resulting in a rapid demographic change is a bad idea for Hungary, the United States or any country."

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    PM Orbán: ‘We won’t do what Brussels dictates, if it’s not good for Hungarians’

    “We have to show those in Brussels that what happens in Hungary is what the Hungarian people want"

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    PM Orbán: Take migration and border protection away from the Commission, give them back to the national governments

    If Brussels has not succeeded so far, we have no reason to believe that they would in the future

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    Budapest Summit on Migration: Here’s the decisive issue of our time

    Migration has become a decisive issue in European public life today, drawing new dividing lines in politics and raising essential questions about Europe’s future

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    Man soll die Frage der Migration von der Europäischen Kommission wegnehmen, sagt Ministerpräsident Orbán

    Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán: "Die Verantwortung für die allgemeinen Fragen der Migration sollte daher der Kommission entzogen werden"

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    PM Orbán: Today we made a good decision together to remain unified

    They wanted to change the character of the EPP. They failed. Unity prevailed.

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    Man soll die Frage der Migration von der Europäischen Kommission wegnehmen, sagt Ministerpräsident Orbán

    Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán: "Die Verantwortung für die allgemeinen Fragen der Migration sollte daher der Kommission entzogen werden"

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    International Investment Bank moves to Budapest

    In December, the Board of Governors of the International Investment Bank took a decision to move its headquarters to Budapest. Here are five facts you should know about the IIB and the relocation to Budapest.

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    Ich hasse es Ihnen unter die Nase zu reiben, aber wir haben es ja gesagt! Die Europäische Kommission zieht die Annahme des gescheiterten Globalen Paktes für Migration in Erwägung

    Ein offizielles Dokument der Europäischen Kommission kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Brüssel den Text des UN Global Compact für Migration [GCM, Globaler Pakt für eine sichere, geordnete und reguläre Migration) annehmen sollte.

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    National Consultation

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    Here’s why family policy is important and how this national consultation seeks to make a difference

    Nov 23, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    Europe’s demographic decline comes as no surprise to anyone even superficially acquainted with current birthrates around the continent. Although some in western Europe have already decided that immigration offers the only way to make up for the loss, the Orbán Government pursues another solution -- make it easier for the nation’s own citizens to have bigger families – and in this national consultation, we’re asking citizens for their input on how to do that.

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    National consultation on family policy to kick off soon

    Oct 31, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    National consultation has become a powerful tool in recent years to invite citizen participation in major decision-making processes between election cycles. Since 2010, the government has solicited citizen input on a number of high-profile policy choices including the new Fundamental Law, economic issues, social security, conditions affecting pensioners, and immigration. This time it’s about family protection and it gets underway in just a few days.

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    The Soros media blitz to convince the world there is no such thing as a Soros plan

    Nov 23, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

    As I wrote last week, the European Parliament approved a regulation that would introduce a permanent and mandatory migrant quota system without an upper limit on the number of migrants to be admitted. What’s more, it says that the evaluation of asylum claims will no longer be carried out by the country of first entry, and all member states will have to accommodate migrants on an involuntary basis. Countries that don’t cooperate would be politically and financially penalized.

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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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