In a message Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated Sebastian Kurz, Chairman of the Austrian People’s Party on the “convincing victory” achieved in the Austrian federal parliamentary elections, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
The average amount of the pension premium will be HUF 20,160, while that of the pension supplement will be HUF 11,000 this year. Pensioners will receive them in one sum in November, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the meeting of the Council of the Elderly held in the Parliament Building on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will nominate Ambassador Olivér Várhelyi, head of Hungary’s Permanent Representation in Brussels as Hungary’s commissioner in the EU. He announced this on Monday evening in Budapest at a press conference held jointly with Antti Rinne, Prime Minister of Finland which currently holds the EU presidency. Mr Orbán also said in answer to questions of journalists that in Hungary the rule of law is not a legal issue, but an issue of honour.
On Monday at the invitation of French head of state Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will attend the memorial service to be held in Paris in memory of former President of the Republic Jacque Chirac who passed away on Thursday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent his greetings in a letter to Israelite leaders in Hungary on the occasion of the Jewish New Year.
There must be an agreement between the two halves of Europe, but with clear conditions attached: for instance, that we have the right to live our lives according to the laws of Christian freedom.
On Thursday afternoon the Prime Minister’s press chief, Bertalan Havasi, informed Hungarian news agency MTI that, on behalf of the Hungarian people, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had sent a letter of condolence to French president Emmanuel Macron and the French nation following the death of former President of France Jacques Chirac.
In Rome on Saturday, at a congress of the national-conservative party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia, or FdI), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary is ready to assist Italy however it can, and so if Italy is determined to defend its borders, Hungary will help in taking migrants back to their homelands. He said that the Left wants to bring in migrants.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will give a speech at the right-wing Atreju event in Rome on Sunday at the invitation of the leader of the Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI) party Giorgia Meloni.
The defence ministers of the Visegrád Group (V4) countries are meeting in Ostrava, Moravia, to discuss the defence priorities of the Czech presidency of the Group, as well as current professional issues relating to the V4’s activities within NATO and the European Union.