Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief, has told kormany.hu that, to mark the national holiday on 15 March, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent greetings to his Hungarian compatriots beyond the borders. The message will be read out at local celebrations held in a number of settlements around the Carpathian Basin.
In Brussels on Friday, after a summit of heads of state and government of the EU Member States, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that for Hungary the previous day’s re-election of Donald Tusk as President of the European Council was about Europe’s operability, rather than about one Member State or another.
Before a two-day summit for leaders of European Union Member States in Brussels on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán answered a journalist’s question by saying that Donald Tusk will be the President of the European Council, as the sole joint candidate of the European People’s Party.
Bertalan Havasi, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has told government news portal kormany.hu that the day after the European Commission authorised Hungarian state funding for expansion of Paks Nuclear Power Plant, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President of Russia Vladimir Putin discussed the project in a telephone conversation.
In Budapest on Tuesday, at a swearing-in ceremony for new police officers appointed in the second and third phases of Hungary’s border guard training course, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the migrant flow has not come to an end but only slowed down; he stated that “Now, also, we are under siege”.
At an opening ceremony for the Szigetszentmiklós Public Administration Centre, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the Government wants to create a state that enjoys the people’s trust and helps with the advancement of the people and of businesses.
Budapest, 28. Februar 2017
At their summit held in Warsaw on Thursday the prime ministers of the Visegrád countries (V4) adopted a declaration on the future of the EU. At a press conference held after the summit Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary fully and wholeheartedly supports the document.
The Prime Minister has said that in the coming years economic growth must remain between 3 and 5 per cent, while after 2020 it must reach levels of more than 5 per cent.
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated the creators of “Sing” for winning the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.