Hungary’s government and ethnic Hungarian organisations in the Carpathian Basin will coordinate their aid and donation programmes aimed at helping the Hungarian community in Ukraine and people fleeing from war, a government official said on Tuesday.
Hungary’s opposition parties have called on Speaker of Parliament László Kövér to convene a special session of parliament for Wednesday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Tuesday addressed a meeting of Hungary’s ambassadors, and said the primary goal was to stop Hungary from “being swept up” in the Ukraine-Russia war. Ahead of the meeting, Orbán talked to Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and state secretaries of the foreign ministry. Orbán said Hungary was taking part in European […]
Hungary will take in every refugee arriving from any region in Ukraine irrespective of their ethnic background, Kinga Gál, an MEP of ruling Fidesz, said after an extraordinary plenary meeting of the European Parliament discussing the Russian attack of its neighbour on Tuesday.
A total of 4,002 refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine, 308 of them children, arrived in Budapest by train on Monday, Budapest police (BRFK) has said.
All departments of the Ministry of Human Resources is prepared to receive refugees from Ukraine, and all necessary measures have been taken, the minister said on Monday.
The government’s aid programme to help Ukrainian citizens fleeing from war has collected 65 million forints (EUR 178,000) in donations, government spokeswoman Alexandra Szentkirályi said.
Hungary has consented to the activation of the European Peace Facility (EPF), enabling the EU to deliver weapons to Ukraine, but it has also made clear that it will not do the same on a national, bilateral basis, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó in Pristina after meeting Kosovo’s foreign minister, Donika Gervalla-Schwarz.
Keeping Hungary out of the war in Ukraine is in the interest of the Hungarian people, so the country will not send weapons or soldiers to the war zone, Viktor Orbán has said.
On the last day of February, several districts of the capital turned white, but a few centimeters of snow occurred elsewhere, too.
