At Hungexpo in Budapest on Monday, at the opening of the Telecom World 2019 conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that Hungary is ready to become one of the digitalising world economy’s success stories, and has already set out on that path.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent a letter of congratulations to Giuseppe Conte, following the renewal of his mandate as Prime Minister of Italy.
At the meeting of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow held in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, the parties spoke about the persecution of Christians, the cooperation of Eastern and Western churches and the work of the Russian Orthodox Church in Hungary.
Immigration and border protection were the main topics of the meeting of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
In the Castle Garden Bazaar on Thursday, at the 3rd Budapest Demographic Summit, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán described the pursuit of robust demographic policy as a goal of the state and a task of the Government. If there are no families or children, he said a national community can disappear, and if a nation disappears, “something irreplaceable disappears from the world”.
On Wednesday evening in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Serbian President of the Republic Aleksandar Vucic, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini at a working dinner.
On 30 September, the Prime Minister of Finland currently holding the presidency of the European Union will pay a visit to Budapest.
At noon on Thursday Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief, informed the Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister and President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán has written a letter to Matteo Salvini – the leader of the Italian party Lega, and until today a member of Italy’s government. In his letter Mr. Orbán expressed his appreciation and gratitude for the work recently done by Mr. Salvini for Italy and the whole of Europe, including Hungary.
On Wednesday morning in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Stephen Harper, former Prime Minister of Canada, Chairman of the International Democrat Union, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
On Monday in Sopron, after he had talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke about the need for strengthening Hungarian-German economic relations.