“We are taking the threat of terrorism and the people’s security seriously, and accordingly the Government and the National Security Cabinet have decided that beginning on Thursday the Counter Terrorism Centre (TEK) and military police units from the Hungarian Defence Force will be reinforcing the protection of Christmas fairs”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.
The Hungarian government continues to do everything it can in the interest of the people’s security, and continues to protect the borders, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said at a press conference held on Wednesday in Budapest.
“The Office of Immigration and Asylum committed no error during its report at Tuesday’s session of Parliament’s National Security Committee”, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér declared in a statement to reporters following the body’s extraordinary session on Wednesday.
The government’s public employment policy is successful, equally for local governments in the public employment system, society and workers, the Minister of State for Local Governments at the Ministry of Interior stated on Tuesday in Budapest.
On 11-12 October 2018 the Justice and Home Affairs Council held a two-day meeting in Luxembourg. On the home affairs day of the session the Hungarian delegation was led by Interior Minister Sándor Pintér.
“Without border protection, Hungary would be a halfway house and an assembly-point for migrants, and Europe would be defenceless, and accordingly the Government in no way supports Brussels’ latest efforts aimed at taking border protection away from member states”, the Ministry of Interior’s Parliamentary State Secretary said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI following his hearings before various parliamentary committees on Wednesday.
“Brussels is attacking Hungary with another report that contains untruths so they can take away our right to protect our borders”, the Ministry of Interior stressed in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
“The V4 has forged a path in Europe, and the policies that the Visegrád Group pioneered are now being followed by several countries”, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said at a meeting between the interior ministers of the V4 countries and Austria.
“Without the work of the civil guard, Hungary could not be the world’s fifteenth safest country”, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said at the opening of the 14th National Civil Guard Day and the 7th National Civil Guard Equestrian Parade in Baja on Saturday.
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