Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has travelled to the Czech capital where the prime ministers of the Visegrád countries will consult ahead of the Sunday EU summit, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will nominate Judit Varga, Minister of State for European Union Relations at the Prime Minister’s Office for Minister of Justice after the incumbent minister, László Trócsányi takes up his position as Member of the European Parliament.
In a letter of thanks sent to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the Bishop of the Diocese of Sokoto in Nigeria described the aid worth EUR 1 million – which Hungary provided for the African diocese as part of the Hungary Helps Programme – as a vital lifeline. At the same time, he highlighted he was convinced that the Hungarian aid contributes to helping people in a difficult situation in their own country to stay in their native land, instead of leaving it.
In Brussels on Friday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told journalists that Manfred Weber and Frans Timmermans have failed in their bids to become President of the European Commission. He described this as good news for Hungary, because the Hungarian people did not want them.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has arrived in Brussels where on Thursday and Friday he will attend the working meeting of the European Council comprised of the heads of state and government of EU Member States.
Only those countries are able to defend their independence which are able to face reality, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a reception held on the terrace of the Carmelite Monastery in the company of invited politicians and artists.
At a meeting in Budapest on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Milorad Dodik, the Serbian chairman of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, agreed on developing close political and economic relations between Hungary and Republika Srpska.
At a meeting held in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Ethiopian Christian leaders had talks about the impacts of migration on Europe and Africa, and the persecution of Christians.
The Prime Minister placed flowers at Imre Nagy’s grave, at plot 301.
In the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received politicians of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (EKRE), Member of Parliament Jaak Madison, President of the Estonian-Hungarian Friendship Group, and Siim Pohlak who is expected to take over leadership of the friendship group as Mr Madison will continue work as Member of the European Parliament, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday afternoon.