The Government of Hungary is shocked by the bomb attack in the Saint Peter Coptic Cathedral, which claimed many innocent lives. Hungary expresses its deepest sympathy to the Christian Community and the people of Egypt. We share their grief and sorrow.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Nenad Lalovic, President of United World Wrestling (UWW) in the Parliament Building on Saturday morning, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed kormany.hu.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Péter Gáncs, President-Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary in his office on Saturday. The meeting was also attended by Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog, the press chief of the Prime Minister informed kormany.hu after the meeting.
“Hungarian-Slovakian political and economic relations have achieved a never before seen high level”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Agricultural Diplomacy, Levente Magyar said at a press conference following a session of the Hungarian-Slovakian Joint Economic Committee.
“A strong European Union can only be established if it is built on strong member states”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday at his annual hearing before Parliament’s European Affairs Committee.
In Krakow on Friday, at a ceremony commemorating the events of 1956, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that a new historical era of ascent is beginning in Central Europe, and in this new era young people will have to discover how to rebuild Hungarian-Polish friendship.
In an interview given to Transylvanian Hungarian Television (ETV), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it would be a great mistake for Hungarians to have no representation in the Romanian legislature. He added that the stakes in the parliamentary election in Romania on Sunday are closely linked to the survival of Hungarians in Transylvania and the Partium.
The twin of the statue of the Pest lad erected in Csepel on 23 October was inaugurated on Friday afternoon in Szczecin, a port in the North of Poland. The welcome speech of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was read out at the ceremony, which was attended by Szilárd Németh, deputy head of the parliamentary group of Fidesz.
In Krakow on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Central Europe is experiencing a renaissance, and is growing and developing continuously and dynamically.
Hungarian-Slovakian economic relations are expanding dynamically and the Hungarian National Trading House (MNKH) and the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO) concluded a cooperation agreement on Thursday in Budapest to facilitate further growth.