In preparation for next week’s EU summit, Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, paid a visit to the office of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Bertalan Havasi, the deputy state secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed kormany.hu.
“We regard and have always regarded the Hungarian national community in Transcarpathia as a resource that assists us in the establishment of cooperation between Hungary and Ukraine that is based on mutual respect and which facilitates the success of the two nations”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in Berehove (Beregszász) at the end of the academic year and graduation ceremony of the Rákóczi Ferenc II Transcarpathian Hungarian College.
On the Friday edition of the Kossuth Radio programme “180 Minutes”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that, in relation to the issue of migration, all the means needed to defend Hungary are at the disposal of the Government and Parliament .
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received in his office Giuseppe Pezzanesi, Mayor of the town of Tolentino, Italy, and Andrea Carradori, prior of the Sacred Heart Brotherhood. The Hungarian government rebuilt the church of this small town in Italy after the earthquake two years ago, the Prime Minister’s press chief said.
At the meeting of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and executives of Apollo Tyres Hungary Onkar Kanwar and Neeraj Kanwar held on Friday morning in the Parliament Building, the parties spoke about the state of the Hungarian economy and the results of the activities of Apollo Tyres in Hungary, the communication released by Bertalan Havasi, the deputy state secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister reads.
“Hungary’s standpoint has not changed: with relation to migration we still cannot accept the mandatory distribution mechanism, and a nation state-level decision must be made on the issue, not a European Union-level decision”, Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás declared on Tuesday in Brussels.
“During the past three years the countries of the Visegrád Group (V4) have acted against illegal migration while showing true European solidarity”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács stressed on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs program.
Polish airline LOT will be launching a new air passenger route between Budapest and London early next year, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and CEO of LOT Rafał Milczarski announced in Budapest on Thursday.
In Budapest on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán officially handed over the presidency of the Visegrád cooperation (V4) to Slovakia, which will lead the group for one year from 1 July. In his address, Mr. Orbán said that Central Europe is now the continent’s most successful region, and one which has a fantastic future ahead of it.
In Budapest on Thursday, after a summit between the Chancellor of Austria and the heads of government of the Visegrád Four (V4 – Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that the V4 and Austria agree that Europe must be able to defend its borders and must provide security for its citizens.