Hungarian-Azeri cooperation is on the threshold of great opportunities as the current situation involves not only a challenge, but also a wealth of opportunities, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Sunday in Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has thanked Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer for the fact that Bavaria has responded with understanding and without prejudice to the difficulties Hungary has experienced as a result of the migrant crisis.
On Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” programme on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in relation to the European Union’s handling of the immigration crisis that “individual action is better than unified inertia”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will be making an official visit to Azerbaijan over the weekend, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief informed Hungarian news agency MTI.
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) Hunor Kelemen held talks in Parliament. They stated that it is important that Hungarians in Transylvania emerge from the domestic affairs disputes accompanying the Romanian elections scheduled for this year in a stronger position, and that this is also reflected in their representation in local governments and in Parliament.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the situation of Europe gives it the means to halt migration to Europe, but Brussels lacks the intent to protect the continent.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán takes the view that the foreign trade results achieved so far vindicate the reform of the foreign affairs organisational system which was implemented in 2014. The Prime Minister was speaking at the customary conference for heads of missions held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he said that a calm and balanced homeland assists the work of ambassadors.
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán posted the following on his Facebook page: “This is a great day for Hungarian filmmaking. Thank you, everybody”. He was expressing his congratulations after László Nemes’ “Son of Saul” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in Los Angeles.
At a commemorative event for the recently deceased Academy Award-winner Vilmos Zsigmond at Budapest’s Vigadó Concert Hall on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the cinematographer had stayed true to what he always was: a Hungarian revolutionary, a loyal son of Hungary and “our American hero”.
Thursday’s edition of the German daily Bild published an interview with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán under the title: “The voices from Germany are course, rough and aggressive”.