Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has confirmed that the Hungarian government is taking the threat of terrorism seriously, and that it has enacted the necessary measures. In an interview given to the public media in Washington on Friday, the Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that Hungary is regarded as advanced from a nuclear energy point of view, and that its safety system is deemed to be outstanding.
On Thursday Bertalan Havasi, the head of the Prime Minister’s Press Office, informed kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is currently in Washington, had written to the family of Imre Kertész to express his condolences on the death of the Nobel laureate.
In an interview on Tatabánya Community Television on Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Tatabánya is one of the country’s top ten cities – which is a great achievement, given that the city was ruined together with the collapse of socialist large-scale industry. He was speaking after signing an agreement with Mayor of Tatabánya Csaba Schmidt (Fidesz-KDNP) on the local developments to be implemented as part of the Modern Cities Programme.
Following Wednesday morning’s meeting of the Operations Unit, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced on Hungarian M1 television that “Hungary is maintaining all the current security measures at its borders, or raising them by one level”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Mayor of Tatabánya Csaba Schmidt (Fidesz-KDNP) have agreed on a plan to boost the economy.
At a press conference in Tatabánya on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that all forms of terror must be opposed and combatted. Referring to the attacks in Brussels, he said that a stand must be taken against terrorists.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said he was shocked to hear of the attacks in Brussels committed on Tuesday morning. He has expressed his condolences to the victims’ families and wishes quick recovery to those injured.
On Saturday morning, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received President of Poland Andrzej Duda in Parliament.
In answer to questions from foreign journalists in Brussels on Friday, the second day of the summit of the European Union’s heads of state and government, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary does not like double standards, and therefore does not support them being applied to anyone, including Poland.
At a press conference in Brussels on Friday afternoon, in which he evaluated the agreement between the European Union and Turkey, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungarian diplomacy has achieved its goals.