Bertalan Havasi, Head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, told kormany.hu that in the Parliament building on Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Sándor Demján, President of the Association of Savings Cooperatives.
“The European Investment Bank (EIB) must have very few better partners than Hungary, because our country not only says it has an interest in Europe’s success, but is acting to achieve it”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said at an event marking the official opening of EIB’s Budapest office.
On Wednesday, after a summit of Visegrád country prime ministers in Prague, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a press conference that the Visegrád Group have put the hardest and most complicated year behind them, and have successfully tackled the problems that had arisen.
Following the V4 summit in Prague on Wednesday afternoon, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a press conference that on Tuesday the Hungarian parliament had made a very important decision by the approving the constitutional amendment and the counter-terrorism legislation.
At a public discussion held prior to the Prague European Summit debate between the prime ministers of the four Visegrád Group (V4) countries, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “The real challenge confronting Europe today is that the continent’s states have different notions of the future, as the example of the migration crisis clearly shows”.
On Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received the Chairman of Poland’s Civic Platform (PO) Grzegorz Schetyna in Parliament.
On Friday, on the Kossuth Rádió programme “180 Minutes”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that with regard the migration issue European leaders have placed themselves in opposition to their peoples, and they must therefore completely revise their policies.
At the Egyptian-Hungarian business forum held in Cairo on Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in Egypt on an official visit, urged the implementation of major joint investments and “flagship projects”.
At the Cairo office of the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met the relatives of Coptic Christian men executed in Libya. He expressed his condolences to the family members present and gave them gift packages.
On his visit to the Egyptian capital of Cairo, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has discussed Egyptian-Hungarian relations and European politics with Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of the al-Azhar Mosque, the spiritual centre of the Sunni Islam world.