Following talks with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in Sofia on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that a new situation has been established in the European Union: migration has become the number one public security issue.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received President of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Julio C. Maglione, CEO of FINA Cornel Marculescu and President of the Hungarian Swimming Federation Tamás Gyárfás in Parliament.
The US Government did put pressure on Hungary in relation to the statue of Bálint Hóman, but Prime Minister Viktor Orbán strongly objected to this behaviour.
On Thursday night Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will travel to the capital of Bulgaria. On Friday he will hold talks with his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borissov on strengthening Hungarian-Bulgarian relations; they will also discuss challenges facing the EU, including the issue of migration. Following their meeting the two prime ministers will hold a joint press conference.
At a Hungarian-Mongolian business forum in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that that both Hungary and Mongolia are among the world’s successful nations, and that both have good reason to look forward to a bright future.
Following a meeting with his Mongolian counterparts in Ulan Bator, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “Hungary and Mongolia are both successful and the governments of the two countries both have an interest in joint successes”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will have a busy international schedule in the coming weeks: on Friday, he will hold talks with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria in Sofia, and in the first few days of February, he will travel to Jakarta to discuss economic, educational and cultural relations with President of Indonesia Joko Widodo. On 15 February, Mr. Orbán will attend the extraordinary summit of the prime ministers of the Visegrád countries announced by the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on Tuesday.
At the inauguration of the Hungarian cultural institute in Ljubljana on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the Hungarians have a nightmare that “The Lord of History” pays them a visit and asks who they are and why they are who they are. There is only one answer to that question, he said: “The world would be a poorer place if we did not exist”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that over the next ten years Central Europe will undergo a phase of outstanding growth, while the European Union as a whole will be characterised by stagnation, or weak progress “at a toddler’s pace”.
At the joint Slovenian-Hungarian government meeting held in Brdo pri Kranju in Slovenia on Friday, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán stated that, in order to curb the flow of migrants, a fence must be built along Greece’s borders with Macedonia and Bulgaria.