Following the terrorist attack on a Coptic Christian church in Cairo, Bertalan Havasi, Minister of State heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has told Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent telegrams of condolence to leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Pope Tawadros II and to Egyptian President Adbel Fattah el-Sisi.
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.
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.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán arrived in Krakow for a two-day visit where, at the beginning of his programme, he viewed the exhibition The Golden Age of Hungarian Painting 1836-1936 at the Krakow National Museum.
After meeting Hunor Kelemen, President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) in Szatmárnémeti/ Satu Mare on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán urged members of the Hungarian community in Romania to vote in the Romanian parliamentary election on Sunday in the largest possible numbers.
Bertalan Havasi, Minister of State heading the Prime Minister’s Press Office, has informed kormany.hu that on Monday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with President of Slovakia Andrej Kiska, who agreed that Hungary and Slovakia have a mutual interest in each other’s success.