“Keeping the ideological guerrillas away” and electing leaders with a pragmatic life instinct was a good decision, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the public service television news channel M1 after his meeting with Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday in Brussels.
On 19 August in Sopron, German Chancellor and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will commemorate together the 30th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday morning.
On Monday in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received the delegation of the 15th European Maccabi Games, Motti Tichauer, Chairman of the European Maccabi Confederation and Jack Terpins, Vice President of the Maccabi World Union, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
In Tusnádfürdő / Băile Tușnad on Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that the framework of a capitalist market economy and democratic legal and political institutions must be maintained, but the mode of organising society must be changed. This, he said, means “‘yes’ to democracy, and ‘no’ to liberalism”.
At the beginning of August in Brussels, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will have talks with Ursula von der Leyen, the new President of the European Commission.
On Thursday in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach consulted with respect to the 125th anniversary of the establishment of the International Olympic Committee and the most important issues of the international sports world, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief said.
At a meeting held in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke in words of praise about the friendship and reliable partnership of China and Hungary.
The parliamentary elections scheduled for 21 July in Ukraine was the main topic of the meeting of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and László Brenzovics, President of the Cultural Alliance of Hungarians in Transcarpathia held in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest.
In an interview on the Kossuth Radio programme “Good Morning Hungary”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “In Brussels the Government has successfully enforced the will of the Hungarian people, as declared in the European Parliament (EP) elections; this means that the people chosen to lead the European Union’s institutions should respect nations and oppose immigration.”
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with Slovak President of the Republic Zuzana Caputová – whom he received in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest on Thursday afternoon – about the Visegrád cooperation, Hungarian-Slovak bilateral relations and European political topics, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.