In an interview during his visit to Madrid broadcast in the early hours of Friday morning on Spanish television channel Intereconomía TV, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that multiculturalism is creating parallel societies in Europe, and this may call into question the values which are regarded as the pillars of the European way of life.
“Europe’s standpoint with respect to the migration crisis has evolved in recent months: the initial debate on accepting and distributing the immigrants is now increasingly encompassing the comprehensive handling of the crisis, which also includes civilisational and cultural elements” Minister of State for EU Affairs Szabolcs Takács from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said at a roundtable discussion in Rome entitled “Defending Common EU Values - Towards a Political Integration”, which was also attended by, amongst others, former Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi.
The anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was commemorated with a formal reception at Hungarian Embassy in Tel-Aviv.
The Hungarian National Flag was hoisted with military honours on Kossuth Lajos Square in front of the Hungarian Parliament building on Friday morning in Budapest to mark the 59th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and fight for independence.
At a wreath-laying ceremony held at Bem Square in Budapest in commemoration of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and fight for independence, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson placed a wreath in representation of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
“Courage and the desire for freedom occupy an important place in the Hungarian character” Minister of Defence István Simicskó said on Thursday at a memorial to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution held at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
The head of the Prime Minister's press office has told Hungarian press agency MTI that on Thursday Hungarian and Spanish prime ministers Viktor Orbán and Mariano Rajoy discussed the European migration crisis; the two leaders agreed that the European Union's external borders must be protected.
If the European Union is unable to protect its borders at Greece, which is the Eastern gate of the Balkans, we have to do so at the western gate of the Balkans, at Hungary and Slovenia, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated at the Congress of the European People’s Party in Madrid.
Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pintér and Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic reopened the Röszke-Horgos road border crossing station on Thursday.
Relations between Hungary and Jordan had traditionally been excellent and they have improved even further over the past couple of years, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said after he had received Jordan’s Minister for Tourism and Antiques Nayef Al Fayez in his office. At the meeting, besides bilateral relations the two ministers discussed issues related to the migration problem.