Speaking about the migration crisis at a joint press conference with the Bavarian minister-president and Chairman of Germany’s conservative CSU party, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that today Bavaria’s borders are being defended by Hungary.
Today, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will first hold talks in Bavaria and then will attend the summit of EU heads of state and government in Brussels.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary John Tsang met in Hungary’s Parliament building to discuss economic cooperation with Asia, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi told kormany.hu.
Next week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will attend the extraordinary meeting of UN on migration in New York.
In Parliament on Monday, when seeking parliamentary authorisation for the deployment of the military, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the police are able to protect the Serbian border; however, Hungary also needs to use the army for the protection of the Croatian and Slovenian sections of border.
In his address on urgent and topical matters before the start of daily business in Parliament, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed that it is Hungary’s historic and moral obligation to protect Europe, and when Hungary is protecting its borders, it is also protecting Europe.
According to current plans, on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will attend the meeting of the Christian Socialist Union (CSU), a conservative party of Bayern, following which he will participate in the extraordinary summit of the European Union in Brussels.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán believes that the development of tourism and the exploration of nature is an important part of the building of the country, which must not be ignored even amidst the protection of the country.
The construction of the temporary technical border fence on the Hungarian-Croatian border began late Thursday night; the fence will be built on a section of 41 kilometres, and the first line of defence will be completed during the course of today, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on the programme '180 minutes' of the radio station Kossuth Rádió.
Hungary will also build fences on some sections of the Croatian border, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview published on the website of the Austrian newspaper Die Presse on Wednesday evening. In addition to Die Presse, the Prime Minister gave a joint interview to the German newspaper Die Welt, the British newspaper The Times and the French newspaper Le Figaro. By late last night the interview had only been released in the online editions of the Austrian and German newspapers.