As shown on a video on the Prime Minister’s Instagram site, in front of the French Institute in Budapest on Sunday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was among those paying tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks.
On Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will address the National Assembly before the start of daily business, in a speech entitled “Europe has been attacked”.
On the public service television news channel M1 on Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that Hungary’s protection has been reinforced due to the attacks in Paris, the Government has declared a national day of mourning for Sunday, and the Fidesz congress planned for that day will be postponed.
Early on Saturday morning the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed the Hungarian News Agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has offered his condolences to the relatives of the victims killed in the Paris terrorist attacks, and to every citizen of France.
In Valetta on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with President of the Maltese National Party Simon Busuttil. The main topic of their discussion was the deep European migration crisis.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview with Nyíregyháza Television that we need national industry and national industrial corporations because without their success, there is no Hungarian success.
In his evaluation of the Valetta EU summit, the Prime Minister told public service television news channel M1 that a once proud Europe “is begging for security”, instead of protecting its borders with its own strength. Viktor Orbán also reiterated that Hungary must reject the importation of a million migrants from Turkey.
Translation of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s interview with Swiss weekly Weltwoche "Ein Wort von Merkel – und die Flut ist gestoppt" published on 12 November.
In Valetta, Malta, where the EU-Africa summit is being held, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that the Visegrád countries will send over 300 border patrol and police officers to Greece “so that we can halt the migration wave at the southern borders of Greece”.
With the aid of the development funds provided by the Government, Nyíregyháza may grow to become one of the country’s economic centres by 2020, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated in Nyíregyháza at his press conference held jointly with Mayor Ferenc Kovács.