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At a joint press conference held with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed that there is a need to develop a solution to ensure gas supply to Central Europe – and thus to Hungary – via Turkey.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President Vladimir Putin agreed that Hungary can use the amount of gas which has not been consumed so far, within long-term gas contracts due to expire this year. Also, Hungary will pay for the amount it actually consumes. “We have firmly secured energy supply for Hungarian families and have also guaranteed the operation of Hungarian industry,” the Prime Minister said.
At a joint press conference held with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that since all gas pipeline projects bypassing Ukraine have failed in succession, the importance of Georgia’s role in Europe has increased significantly.
In Orosháza, at the opening ceremony for presenting the expanded production facility and new machinery of Linamar Hungary Ltd, a subsidiary of the Canada-based Linamar Corporation, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga announced that the investment project will create 150 new jobs.
The successful Hungarian-German economic relationship in recent years is the proof that Germany is and will be part of the Hungarian present and future –Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at his joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Hungary does not promote an anti-immigration stance, but wants to see more sensible immigration policies in Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday.
The budget available for Sure Start (Biztos Kezdet) Children’s Homes for this year is 606 million forints (EUR 1.92M), Government Spokesperson Éva Kurucz said in Monor, near Budapest, at a press conference held jointly with Minister of State for Social Affairs and Inclusion Károly Czibere.
“There are six thousand companies founded fully or partly with German capital operating in Hungary, which influence the lives of over one million Hungarians”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday in Kecskemét at the event organised to mark the launch of serial production of the new Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake.
“Hungary is doing well in developing rural power centres”, the Prime Minister said in Kecskemét at the inauguration of the State Secretariat for Agrarian and Rural Development, part of the Prime Minister’s Office.
“In addition to industry, agriculture represents the key to the development of the Hungarian economy over the next 20 years; Hungary cannot be successful without agriculture”, the Prime Minister declared on Tuesday in Nádudvar, eastern Hungary, at the inauguration of KITE Zrt’s logistics centre.
There is one thing that has not changed in the past 25 years: uniting the nation across borders continues to remain our fundamental goal, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed at the 4th meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council in the grand hall of the Castle Bazaar.
“The essence of Hungarian-American relations is that there is an alliance between the two countries in politics, a partnership with regard to the economy and respect within intellectual and cultural life”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at an event held in Budapest to mark the 25th anniversary of the presence of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) and General Electric (GE) in Hungary.
It is in the strategic interest of Europe that gas from Azerbaijan reaches its Central and Eastern region, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday following talks with Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
“Just like in the automotive industry, it is also difficult to introduce new models within the economy; the Hungarian model, which has set full employment as its goal, is successful”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Győr at the factory production launch of the new Audi TT Roadster.