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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also commemorated Árpád Göncz, the President of the people and the President of the nation on Friday evening in Lendva in Muravidék (Prekmurje) where a ceremony was held on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Hungarian national autonomous community in the presence of the Hungarian and Slovenian Prime Ministers.
The European Union cannot build its future on immigration instead of families, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a speech opening the Budapest Demographic Forum.
On 4 November, as part of the central events, a wreath-laying ceremony and commemorations were held to celebrate victims of the 1956 Revolution. In the morning, Hungary’s national flag was hoisted and set to half-mast on Kossuth square. Parliamentary State Secretary at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister Csaba Dömötör delivered a speech at the 1956 memorial on Hargita square, and Minister Rogán attended the inauguration ceremony of the Konrad Adenauer street and statue in Budapest.
Fifty Slovakian policemen have arrived in Budapest to help their Hungarian colleagues at the Serbian border section of Hungary. (Minister of Interior) Sándor Pintér emphasised at a press conference that their presence proofs that Visegrád countries are giving a unified answer to the challenges posed by migration. Photo: Károly Árvai / Prime Minister’s Office
Migrants directed by Croatia towards Slovenia appeared in the direct vicinity of the Hungarian border, at Rédics, on the Slovenian side, on Saturday morning; this is what warranted the temporary reinstatement of border controls in conformity with the Schengen regulations, the Government Spokesperson announced.
Hungary is fully prepared for ensuring that the country may only be entered on the Hungarian-Croatian border section in a controlled manner, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told journalists in Brussels. Photo: Gergely Botár/Prime Minister's Office
At the opening of the International Telecommunication Union’s World Congress, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Central Europe’s role in the digital economy will become more important; in the coming one or one and a half decades, this region will be the growth engine of the European Union.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán signed a development agreement worth in excess of HUF 120 billion in Kaposvár with Mayor Károly Szita (Fidesz-KDNP).
The national flag was hoisted with full military honours at Kossuth Square in front of Hungary’s Parliament building in Budapest on Tuesday morning on the anniversary of the 1948-49 Revolution and War of Independence and the Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad. Hungary’s flag will remain at half-mast throughout the national day of mourning as a sign of respect.
Hungary has the capacity to become Central-Europe’s growth hub, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the opening ceremony of the Bank of China’s RMB clearing centre in Hungary. Photo: Gergely Botár
The Hungarian Government’s childcare policy is focused on providing children with families, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said on Monday at the official opening of the new SOS Children’s Village in Orosháza. The village was moved there from its previous location in Battonya.
The Röszke border crossing station situated on the M5 motorway was reopened on Sunday morning after five days. The border crossing station was opened by Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér and his Serbian counterpart, Nebojsa Stefanovic.
A humanitarian disaster has been successfully prevented in the last few days by virtue of the coordinated efforts made by the Hungarian authorities and aid organisations in the vicinity of the Serbian-Hungarian border, the Minister of Human Resources stated at a press conference concerning illegal migration held on Wednesday in Szeged. Photos: Gyula Bartos
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán emphasised at the event that the Hungarian people do not want global mass migration to change Hungary, a country of a one-thousand-year-old Christian culture: “this is not why we have fought our way through World Wars, Communism, Regime Change and economic crises”. Photo: Gergely Botár
At a meeting convened for the heads of Hungarian diplomatic missions abroad, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that conflicts should be handled where they emerge, because it is an illusion to believe that the migrants arriving in Europe can be sent back.
Hungary’s history of over a thousand years has proved that we can only survive if we have an army, a defence force, Defence Minister Csaba Hende pointed out in his welcome speech delivered at the military inauguration ceremony held on 20 August at Kossuth Lajos tér outside the Parliament Building. Photos: Gergely Botár