The Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia Miroslav Lajčák – who also serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs – was received by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Monday morning, Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Bertalan Havasi has told kormany.hu.
According to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the brokerage scandal has shown that Hungary lacks a treasury system which is able to ensure appropriate conditions and security for the “parking” of public money, including the funds of local governments.
In a letter addressed to the Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, explaining why he will not accept the invitation to appear at a sitting of the committee, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that “I regard as absurd and ridiculous such political attacks and provocations, which seek to falsify the past and which ignore self-evident and documented facts.”
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that by 2018 three developments will be implemented in Sopron: construction of the M85 four-lane expressway, the restoration of the Baroque town centre and development of the World Heritage site around Lake Fertő.
Being informed about the Germanwings plane crash, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed his sympathy to the German Chancellor and the Spanish Prime Minister in a telegraph – Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office told kormany.hu on Tuesday.
Based on a proposal by Fidesz, assets of companies involved in the brokerage scandal would be collected within a damages fund; such assets would include personal assets of brokers, members of supervisory boards, auditors and others who have “abused their powers”. Victims of the scandal would then be reimbursed from this fund, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told national television channel M1 on Monday.
The price of energy is of the utmost significance from the Hungarian viewpoint, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed after the summit of the heads of states and prime ministers of the Member States of the European Union.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu on his party’s victory at the last elections in a letter.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is attending the two-day summit of the European Union in Brussels. According to the Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister held informal discussions on Thursday in Brussels with the cabinet members of the Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, Tibor Navracsics.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán welcomed US Ambassador to Budapest Colleen Bell on Tuesday afternoon in the Parliament – Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Bertalan Havasi announced.