In Bratislava on Friday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said, in relation to a decision by Standard and Poor’s, that “The hard work that the people of Hungary have performed in recent years is behind this upgrading of Hungary’s credit rating, and so it is primarily they who deserve recognition”.
Head of the Prime Minister’s Press Office Bertalan Havasi informed kormany.hu that “On Monday morning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received the new Managing Director of Magar Suzuki Zrt., Mr. Yoshinobu Abe, for an introductory visit”.
At a press conference held in Bratislava on Friday after an informal summit of leaders of EU Member States, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the summit had been unsuccessful in that “we failed to change Brussels’ immigration policy”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an interview to Kossuth Rádió’s on Thursday, before leaving for Friday’s EU summit in Bratislava. In the interview, which was broadcast on the Friday morning programme “180 Minutes”, Mr. Orbán said that on the issue of illegal immigration we must act, rather than surrender.
Europe’s institutions have no solutions to all historical issues, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the jubilee ceremony of the Andrássy Gyula Budapest German Language University. Only one issue constitutes an exception to this, the issue of peace which is, however, the most important, the Prime Minister added.
On Thursday, prior to an informal meeting of EU leaders in Bratislava, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, in which he asked Mr. Schulz to show respect to the Hungarian people.
We need a generation which is fully aware that there are issues where we need more Europe, while there are others where we need more nation state, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated at the ceremony held on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment of the Budapest Andrássy University.
After a joint border inspection with Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borissov on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that everyone must understand that Europe’s future will not be decided in Brussels, but “here, where we are standing, at the Bulgarian-Turkish border”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán urged an immigration policy that is based on criteria of self-defence at the meeting he conducted with the President of the European Council on Tuesday in Budapest, Bertalan Havasi, the head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister told kormany.hu.
Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has told kormany.hu that in Budapest on Tuesday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Stanisław Karczewski, Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland. The position of the two parties is that Hungary and Poland are in complete agreement on the majority of issues related to the future of the European Union and the migrant crisis.