In Parliament on Thursday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán discussed future cooperation with the new CEO of Audi Hungaria Motor Ltd., Peter Kössler. The Prime Minister asked the new CEO to place appropriate emphasis on representing Hungary when new developments are being discussed at Audi in the future.
On Thursday in Parliament, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo Hashim Thaci in his office.
During the question-and-answer session in Parliament, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the Hungarian public procurement Act is the strictest in Europe.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has written a letter to mark Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, addressed to President of the Hungarian Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Religious Community Eduárd Deblinger, Head of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation Slomó Köves and President of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities András Heisler. In the letter, the Prime Minister wrote that “During these days we remember God’s miracles, and by lighting more and more candles we show that the time for celebration, thanksgiving and joy has come”.
The Visegrád Group (V4) heads of government met South Korean president Park Geun-hye in Prague on Thursday. The Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia (Bohuslav Sobotka, Beata Szydlo, Viktor Orbán and Robert Fico) expressed their wish to deepen cooperation with South Korea.
At the 14th plenary session of the Hungarian Standing Conference (Máért) held in the Várkert Bazár Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that Hungary would file a challenge against the EU decision on resettlement of migrants based on mandatory quotas.
In an interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán emphasised that Hungary’s position is that all attempts aimed at the “forcible exclusion” of Hungarians from the area of free movement in Europe are unacceptable, as Hungary is the only Schengen Member State which has truly protected the external borders of the Schengen Area, the zone of free movement.
At a meeting of the Visegrád Group (V4) in Prague, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán welcomed as very important an initiative whereby the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia will establish a wider group called “Friends of Schengen”, as part of which every participant can contribute to the reinforcement of external Schengen borders.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has expressed concern over investigations launched by the Romanian authorities into Hungarian politicians in Transylvania. At the meeting of the Hungarian Standing Conference held on Thursday in Budapest, the Prime Minister also stated that programmes may be launched to help young Hungarian entrepreneurs beyond the borders.
Regarding mandatory resettlement quotas, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expects to see a “secret background agreement” to be revealed in the next few days, based on which the European Union would take in some 400–500 thousand Syrian refugees.