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Takács: Hungary is a successful member state

5/26/2017

The following article/interview by Adéla Denková on May 26, 2017 in EURACTIV.cz has been reprinted here. For access to the full article please click here.

Just because Hungary has different ideas about issues like migration does not mean it should be perceived negatively. This is exactly why we are fed up, Szábolcs Takács told EURACTIV Czech Republic.

Szábolcs Takács is the state secretary for EU affairs in the Hungarian prime minister’s office. He spoke to EURACTIV.cz Editor-in-Chief Adéla Denková on the margins of the Central European Expert Forum organised in April 2017 under the Polish presidency of the Visegrád Group.

PM Orbán in Maribor: "We Want to Remain Slovenes and Hungarians"

5/22/2017

The following article on May 22, 2017 from Hungary Today has been reprinted here. For access to the entire article please click here.

The values of Europe are in the hearts of its people “rather than in Brussels”, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Saturday, addressing a congress of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) in Maribor.

Representatives of the Hungarian Government on the Need for EU Regulations on Minority Protection

5/19/2017

The following article on May 19, 2017 in Hungary Today has been reprinted here. For access to the entire article please click here.

Representatives of the Hungarian government stressed the need of European Union regulations on minority protection at the congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) in north-western Romania.

In a message read out at the congress, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén applauded FUEN’s Minority SafePack European citizens’ initiative and said it was high time that the issue of national minorities was discussed at a European level.

Public ‘scorn’ of Hungary is ‘foolish’, says Orbán

5/18/2017

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The following article on May 18, 2017 in the Budapest Business Journal (BBJ) has been reprinted here. For access to the full article please click here.

Exposing Hungary to “public scorn” is “foolish” when the country has the first or second largest growth rate and the biggest drop in unemployment in the European Union, when it sticks to all European financial regulations and state debt is dropping, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said today, according to news agency MTI.

Hungarian Prime Minister Laments "Old Model of Globalization" in China Interview

5/16/2017

The following article on May 16, 2017 in Hungary Today has been reprinted here with permission. For access to the full article please click here.

The “old model” of globalisation has reached its end, and the East has caught up with the West, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Beijing. A prominent part of the world is fed up with developed countries giving lectures on such things as human rights and the market economy, Orbán told Hungarian public media during an official visit to China.

Hungarian FM stresses ‘One Belt, One Road’ importance in Beijing

5/15/2017

The following article on May 15, 2017 from the Budapest Business Journal (BBJ) has been reprinted here. For access to the full article please click here.

Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó considers Chinese President Xi Jinping’s One Belt, One Road strategy to represent “a major opportunity for Europe, which the continent must exploit,” the minister said yesterday at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing, according to official government website kormany.hu.

Hungary and Slovakia take EU refugee quota scheme to court

5/10/2017

The following article on May 10, 2017 in Deutche Welle (DW) has been reprinted here. The full article may be accessed here.

Budapest has urged a new EU-wide mechanism to deport migrants, saying that deportation is "mostly not possible" in current conditions. Hungary and Slovakia filed a joint case against the EU's refugee distribution scheme.

Representatives of the two nations addressed the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Wednesday in a bid to dispute the EU's decision to distribute migrants throughout the bloc on a quota basis. Faced with hundreds of thousands of migrants sailing to Italian and Greek shores, the EU Council decided to lighten the load by distributing newcomers among the remaining members states. However, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic all voted against the move.

Bratislava and Budapest decided to take the decision to court, disputing its legal basis.

"Friend of Hungary" Award Presented at 4th Annual Friends of Hungary Conference in Budapest

5/9/2017

The following article on May 8, 2017 in Hungary Today has been reprinted here. The full article may be accessed here.

On Saturday, at Budapest’s Vigadó Concert Hall, the Friends of Hungary Foundation presented awards to two individuals and one organization at the Foundation’s 4th annual conference, which was held this past weekend.

Saturday’s ceremony came on the heels of Friday’s visit to the Sándor Palace, the official residence of the President of the Republic of Hungary, where President Áder greeted conference goers. Attendees, arriving from all over the world, paid for their own airfare and accommodations.

Saturday’s award ceremony began with a speech by Hungary’s Minister of National Economy Mihály Varga. In his talk, Varga discussed current political and economic conditions in Hungary, while praising the work and efforts of the members of the Friends of Hungary Foundation.

Basic Christianity - Part II - Chapter 2

5/4/2017

Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith, The Jesus of History Movement, The Roots of the Movement, its Main Representatives, The "Christ of Faith" Movement

1. The "Jesus of History" Movement

In dealing with Christology, we are obliged to mention a trend which flourished in the 19th century, called "the Jesus of History" movement. This raised the question of the historicity of the human person of Jesus Christ. It was concerned with the historical truth about the person of Jesus of Nazareth, that is, his real life-story beyond and apart from the Church dogmas which grew up around his person. Throughout Church history, Jesus Christ was presented as a dogma of the Church. The "Jesus of History" movement began to scrutinize the historical basis of the Church's dogma about Christ. This movement therefore was interested primarily in the historical facts about Jesus.

‘They don’t even try’: Hungary’s new border fence called ‘spectacular success’

5/3/2017

**The following article by the World Tribune on May 2, 2017 has been reprinted here. The full article may be accessed here**.

Skeptics who believe a border wall will not stop illegals from entering the United States may want to look at what’s happening in Hungary.

On the day its border fence was completed, the influx of illegals entering Hungary went down from 6,353 one day to 870 the next. For the remainder of that month, illegal border crossings were steadily below 40 per day, officials said.

Border patrols prevent dozens of crossings every day and catch migrants who make it into Hungary within the first few miles of the border, according to authorities. /Reuters “They don’t even try,” a local border guard told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “We haven’t had a Syrian in six months.”

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