Erste Group has invited the government of Hungary and the EBRD to invest in its local operation
At a ceremony at the Tupá pumping station belonging to the Slovakian oil transportation company Transpetrol, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico officially opened the renovated section of the Friendship I oil pipeline between Szászhalombatta and Šahy. Both prime ministers said that the project is of great importance, as it significantly contributes to the security of oil supply in the region.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed his sympathy to the family of József Schweitzer, former Chief Rabbi and former Director of the Hungarian Rabbinical Seminary, who died on Thursday.
The conservative German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Thursday, entitled “We do not want a multicultural society”.
In an interview with Hungarian television channel HírTV, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “We must sign a flexible gas supply contract with Russia – one that can be extended, if necessary.”
French President Francois Hollande thanked Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for his participation at the Paris memorial march on 11 January and for standing with the French people after the terror attacks.
The successful Hungarian-German economic relationship in recent years is the proof that Germany is and will be part of the Hungarian present and future –Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at his joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered his condolences and expressed his sympathy over the brutal killings of the two Japanese hostages captivated by the Islamic State in a letter written to his Japanese counterpart.
There are no problematic fields in the German-Hungarian cooperation, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told national radio channel Kossuth Rádió on Friday. The Prime Minister also underlined that he sees great possibilities in the Eurasian economic cooperation plan.
“Without the sacrifices that Hungarian Jews made during the First World War, it would have been impossible to defend our homeland”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a centenary memorial on Monday to mark the renovation of WWI graves in the Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery.