In an interview on Hungarian television’s current affairs channel M1 on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “If the Government gives in to Brussels, which wants to force uncontrolled migration on Hungary, then our country will change”.
During an interview on M1 Hungarian television’s current affairs programme on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “There is no indication that the explosion on Teréz Boulevard [in central Budapest] on Saturday evening is in any way linked to the migration crisis”.
On Kossuth Radio’s Sunday morning current affairs programme, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that there is a defensive and defiant alliance between the leaders of the Central European nations, based on the agreement that, despite everything, they shall defend their countries.
In a statement to the Catholic news portal “Magyar Kurír”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “The whole of Europe is living through a pivotal period; humanity is now stepping into a new era – but as part of a process which is slower and more difficult than previous explosive tipping points”.
At the migration summit in Vienna on Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán proposed an emergency plan which includes designation of a new European line of defence in case the agreement between the European Union and Turkey becomes impossible to maintain for any reason.
In the Parliament building on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Olympic and Paralympic achievements unite the Hungarian people. He was speaking at an event in which, together with President János Áder and Speaker of the House László Kövér, he awarded decorations to the Hungarian athletes who won medals at the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio.
Bertalan Havasi, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Christian Schmidt (Vice-President of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and Germany’s Minister of Food and Agriculture) in the Parliament building on Friday morning.
The Prime Minister continues to regard the 2 October referendum on the compulsory migrant relocation quota as a national issue and not a party political issue, and accordingly he is not taking part in party political debates, but instead expects political groupings which have a responsible attitude to encourage people to vote.
According to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, next Sunday’s quota referendum will decide “how strong a sword we can forge” for Hungarians’ struggle against the Brussels bureaucrats.
At a reception organised in honour of Széchenyi Prize recipients on Tuesday in the Pesti Vigadó building, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that at troubled intellectual and political times, as Hungarians, we can only do one thing: invest in and hold on to what we are the best at, and this is sciences.