Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Hungary last March, the government has supported 1,434 (foreign) investments at the total value of 1,676 billion forints (EUR 4.7bn), Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Monday.
Speaking at the inauguration of Hungarian-owned Merkbau’s new plant manufacturing doors and windows in Kiskunhalas, southern Hungary, Szijjártó said the pandemic posed economic challenges as well as public health risks. The government has a duty to protect people’s jobs as well as their lives and health, he said.
In the spring, the government decided to fight unemployment rather than financing it, he said.
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Hungary: Orban critics fight to be heard
Celebrating anti-Semitic public figures This government is not anti-Semitic,” claimed Andras Kovas, Professor for Jewish Studies at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest in an interview with DW. However, he agreed that the government does use anti-Semitic stereotypes in its ongoing campaign against Soros.
The government has also celebrated public figures who are openly anti-Semitic. The far-right Erno Raffay who had already received numerous awards, was given another in August. In 2015, he had compared migrants from largely Muslim countries to Jewish immigrants in the 19th century, saying that these latter had multiplied and pushed Hungarians from many areas of society. This should be a lesson to [Hungary] he added.