Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed kormany.hu that in the Nándorfehérvár Hall of the Parliament Building on Monday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had a meeting with Melih Gökçek, Mayor of Ankara.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced that up to 2020 the Government is planning to allocate some HUF 1,200 billion to research, development and innovation. As a result, Hungary’s research spending as a proportion of GDP will approximate to the EU average.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, founder of the Puskás Akadémia said that an honest, fair, manly fight would take place among the three teams which were candidates for relegation from Division I of the national football league.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Gianni Infantino, President of the international governing body of football, FIFA, in his study in the Parliament Building on Monday evening, Bertalan Havasi, the head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed kormany.hu.
Isa Mustafa, the Prime Minister of Kosovo had talks with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Monday in Budapest. Mr Orbán stressed: stability in the Western Balkans is a prime strategic interest of Hungary, and bearing this in mind, the Hungarian Government maintains close cooperation with Kosovo.
In an interview with the Portuguese weekly Expresso, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary cannot be forced to accept migrants. He defended the Fundamental Law of Hungary and his government’s rejection of the plan for mandatory resettlement quotas, as well as construction of the fence on his country’s southern borders.
At a ceremony in the Parliament Building, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke about the importance of role models after presenting the American businessman of Hungarian origin Steven F. Udvar-Hazy – Chairman and CEO of Air Lease Corporation – with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary.
After the inauguration of the forest railway in Váli-völgy, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told journalists that whenever something is being built, enriched or created it is a common phenomenon that “we try to attack or obstruct it somehow, instead of being happy about it”; we might call this cynicism, he said, but “nothing has ever been built on the basis of cynicism”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán invited the Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina Husein Kavazović to Budapest on a working visit.
Developments with a combined total of more than HUF 30 billion may be implemented in Békéscsaba thanks to an agreement which Prime Minister Viktor Orbán signed with Mayor Péter Szarvas on Tuesday in the administrative capital of Békés County.