Prime Minister Viktor Orbán invited President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach for a working lunch in Budapest on Sunday, Head of the Prime Minister’s Press Office Bertalan Havasi informed the kormany.hu government news portal.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was presented with the highest ranking award of the World Swimming Association (FINA) by the Association’s President Julio César Maglione in Budapest’s Parliament Building on Monday.
“The guiding star of Hungarian foreign policy is the Hungarian interest”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in reply to a question from the audience in Tusnádfürdő on Saturday at the Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp.
The volume of retail sales grew dynamically, by 6 percent year-on-year, in the month of May 2017. Thus, the sector has been expanding for 47 months in a row.
According the Prime Minster’s Chief Security Advisor, György Bakondi, Libya’s security and the closure of the Libyan migration route is increasingly becoming an outstanding European interest in view of the fact that huge numbers of people who are not political refugees have set out for Europe from Sub-Saharan Africa and many more are waiting in preparation.
According to Minister for National Development Miklós Seszták, the required tasks have been completed, the Budapest World Aquatics Championships are in progress and can be regarded as a great success so far. Speaking on Kossuth Radio’s “Sunday Papers” program, Mr. Seszták said it is best to include a sports facility in a country’s development strategy in such a way that it can later be stated, it was worth it.
In a speech on the closing day of the 28th Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp in Tusnádfürdő, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Europe also has a stake in next year’s Hungarian general election, because the result will determine whether the Soros plan can be implemented and the border fence can be dismantled.
In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom (“Israel Today”), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that in Hungarian political life there is zero tolerance on anti-Semitism, and “we will never tolerate any kind of anti-Semitic approach to issues”.
On the Kossuth Radio programme “180 Minutes” on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that a country which is unable to defend its border is no country at all.
According to Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, “the fault is not at our end” end if Romanian-Hungarian relations are still not as good as they should be. Mr. Semjén was speaking at a podium discussion on national politics at the 28th Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusnádfürdő (Tuşnad, Romania), in which representatives of the Hungarian Government and every part of the nation participated.