At the Fidesz headquarters in Budapest on Thursday, Prime Minister and President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán met Hunor Kelemen, President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania. In their meeting the two men agreed to continue implementation of programmes designed to promote the Hungarian community in Romania’s preservation of identity and educational development.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief, has informed kormany.hu that, two days before the extraordinary EU summit being held in Rome, Prime Minister and President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán met Pier Ferdinando Casini, Honorary President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Chairman of the Italian Senate’s Foreign Policy Commission. The meeting was to discuss the future of the European Union and the most important challenges the continent is facing.
Bertalan Havasi, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has told kormany.hu that, in a letter sent to British prime minister Theresa May, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered his condolences to the relatives of the victims of Wednesday’s terrorist attack in London.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will also be having a meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest on Thursday, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister Bertalan Havasi confirmed to Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
At a press conference held with Mayor Zsolt Fekete at the Salgótarján stop on the Modern Cities Programme, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that a growth path must be outlined which will enable Salgótarján to be turned from a losing city into a winning city.
Bertalan Havasi, head of the Prime Minister’s Press Office, has informed kormany.hu that the continuous strengthening of bilateral relations and the promotion of Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic integration were the main topics at a meeting between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President of the Republic of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov held in the Parliament Building in Budapest on Monday afternoon.
On Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” programme on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the second security fence now being built on the Hungarian border will, if necessary, block the path of even the largest numbers of migrants coming from the direction of Turkey.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief, has told kormany.hu that on Friday morning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received deputy speakers from the Polish, German and Austrian legislatures in the Parliament building in Budapest.
In a welcome speech at a gala dinner in honour of the latest winners of the Kossuth Prize, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary’s newly-built economic system is now in operation, and as a result this year funding for Hungarian culture will amount to HUF 65 billion more than last year.
At a ceremony held outside the Hungarian National Museum on 15 March, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the fifteenth of March is irrefutable proof that we were, we are and we will be: “this is our triumph”.