On Thursday, at his arrival in Brussels at the two-day summit of EU head of states and governments, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it would be time to do something for Ukraine and there is one thing we can do for the Ukrainians: we can grant them the possibility of visa-free travel.
Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed Hungarian news agency MTI that ahead of the summit of the European People’s Party (EPP) in Maastricht on Thursday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
On Thursday, German newspaper Passauer Neue Presse published an interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán entitled “We must not give way to anarchy”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed his appreciation of the Hungarian police on Thursday with reference to the fact that the suspected perpetrator of the bombing on Teréz Körút in Budapest has been apprehended; the man has duly been remanded in custody by the Central Prosecutorial Investigation Office.
At an event organised by the Hungarian consul general in the building of the Bavarian parliament (Landtag) to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that opening Hungary’s western border in 1989 and protecting its borders now are two sides of the same coin: “In 1989 we took action for Europe’s freedom, and today we are protecting this freedom. Today […] the security of Hungary also means the security of Europe”.
In the Parliament building on Sunday, in a press statement following his talks with the Vice-President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that what Hungary needs are investors like India.
Opening the parliamentary debate on the Bill for a constitutional amendment which he had submitted, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the quota referendum on 2 October established a new unity which transcends party political boundaries. This unity, he said, is so wide, diverse and strong because people can sense that Hungarian independence is once again in danger.
“Good Friday will be a public holiday”, Prime Minster Viktor Orbán announced at the commemorative session of the Hungarian Reformed Church Synod.
Minister Viktor Orbán told Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” programme that “we can be proud of the fact that it is only in Hungary that people have been asked about the issue of immigration; we did the right thing and the Hungarians acted bravely in this matter”.
“The Reformation Memorial Committee held its autumn session on Thursday morning in the Parliament Building, chaired by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán”, the head of the Prime Minister’s press Office told Hungarian news agency MTI.