In an interview with television channel Dunaújváros Televízió on Tuesday, Viktor Orbán said that the government agreement with Dunaújváros can be divided into three parts.
During his official visit to Egypt, after talks in Cairo with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that a major question for the future is how civilisations with historic roots such as Islam and Christianity will be able to live together.
On Tuesday evening Prime Minister Viktor Orbán arrived on an official visit to Egypt, where he was received with military honours at Cairo airport by Prime Minister of Egypt Sherif Ismail.
In Dunaújváros, where he signed an agreement with Mayor Gábor Cserna as part of the Modern Cities Programme, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that we must demonstrate that traditional industrial cities are not a thing of the past, but that they have a future, and therefore the issue of Dunaújváros is “a point of honour”.
Media outlets were extensively informed a number of times about Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s engagements during his visit to Washington. It is therefore astonishing that the Hungarian media and some politicians have been unable or unwilling to understand the facts, and inform the public accordingly.
On Monday in Luxembourg Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an address at the ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of the European People’s Party’s (EPP), the formation which brings together Europe’s centre-right parties. He said that without the EPP, communism would not have fallen in Europe, the Soviet Union would still exist, and its troops would still be stationed in countries like Hungary, which today would not be a Member State of the European Union.
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will travel to Luxembourg to attend the summit of the European Peoples’ Party, which will mark the 40th anniversary of the party’s existence.
On Wednesday morning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov in Parliament. The meeting was also attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó.
Due to illness, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s engagements scheduled for today have been cancelled.
In a message to congregations celebrating Hungarian Reformed Unity Day, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wrote that, in the period leading up to the five-hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation, we should remind ourselves of the close relationship that existed between the cause of religious revival, the preservation of the Hungarian language and the reinforcement of our Hungarian identity.