In Budapest on Saturday, at the commemoration for the approaching Memorial Day of Hungarian Political Prisoners and Forced Labourers Transported to the Soviet Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that today no one doubts that National Socialism, like Communism, was an insane idea.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán travelled to China to attend the summit of Heads of State and Government of China and Central Eastern European countries held in Suzhou and Beijing.
After a meeting with Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary will take firm action with a view to changing current European immigration policy, because the current uncontrolled and unregulated form of migration is claiming human lives on the continent, and is exposing Europe’s citizens to direct threats.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that, regarding the issue of illegal immigration, we need nation state solutions rather than European solutions. On Kossuth Rádió’s “180 Minutes” programme on Friday, the Prime Minister also spoke about the enlargement of the Paks nuclear power station, and defended implementation of the project, pointing out that “cheap electricity equals Paks”.
After he met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Parliament on Thursday, the Prime Minister said that the terrorist attacks have directed our attention to a fact which we must take seriously: people are coming to the European Union from zones in which some Member States of the EU are – to varying degrees – at war.
Szombathely is a politically stable and economically strong city with a good management, in good hands, and the Government is therefore assured that the funds now awarded to the city will be used reasonably and well, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said in the county seat of Vas County.
In an interview given to public service television news channel M1 on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the security of the Hungarian people is the Government’s top priority; “this is the path it has pursued” to date, and there is no need to change its way of thinking, he stated.
In reaction to fraction leaders’ replies to his address in Parliament on Monday, Viktor Orbán said that the Cabinet is absolutely opposed to “forced resettlement” and cross-border migrant returns: “as long as this government has breath in its body, there will be no quotas, and there will be no cross-border migrant returns from other countries”.
Speaking about Friday’s attacks in Paris in an address before the start of Parliament’s daily business on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the European Union has been attacked, and Hungary is also in danger. The Prime Minister further pointed out that terrorists are deliberately exploiting mass migration to blend in among migrants.
On the day of national mourning held on Sunday for victims of the Paris terrorist attacks, the Hungarian National Flag was raised with military honours and flown at half-mast.