In his speech given at the state celebration event on the occasion of the national day marking 15 March 1848 held at the National Museum, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called the nation’s independence and freedom the “twin guiding stars”, the lineage of Hungarian history.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán greeted Hungarians outside the borders of Hungary on the national day marking the 1848-49 revolution in a letter – Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Bertalan Havasi informed kormany.hu.
Budapest is to host the 2017 FINA World Championships, which will be the biggest international event so far in the history of Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced at a press conference on Wednesday. He was speaking after signing an agreement on this with the Executive Director of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Cornel Marculescu.
At an extraordinary general meeting of ambassadors of Hungary, Viktor Orbán defined the basis of Hungarian foreign policy doctrine – independent foreign policy based on national interests – by saying that Hungary is not looking for uniformity of interests with influential countries, but the aim is to ensure that Hungarian success is in other countries’ interests.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has set a goal of achieving full employment in Hungary by 2018,reducing unemployment to 3% or lower by then.
“Consultations are already in progress with the Banking Association and the National Bank of Hungary on where strengthened oversight is necessary,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in connection with the Buda-Cash case in an interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió.
At a ceremony held in Esztergom to mark introduction of the new Suzuki model, Viktor Orbán said that it is thanks to companies like Suzuki that in Hungary today 455 000 more people are in work than were in 2010.
In 2008, the socialist government did not take the agreement on the South Stream investment to the National Assembly, the members were not allowed to know its content, to negotiate or decide on it – Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office said.
PM Viktor Orbán received the leaders of those 67 local governments that were affected by the Buda-Cash scandal. A decision has been made on the government providing financially endangered local governments an extraordinary support of approximately HUF 245 million – Bertalan Havasi announced.
Statement of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán