In Washington on Monday, after his working meeting in the White House with US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the meeting had strengthened the two countries’ alliance in a number of areas.
On Sunday in the Carmelite Monastery, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Alexey Likhachev, Chief Executive Officer of the Rosatom Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán posted a video on his Facebook page on Thursday, in which he said that in the elections to the European Parliament in a little over two weeks’ from now we must elect anti-immigration leaders: so that Europe will be able to defend itself, and for the future of our children. He was speaking in Nagyszeben/Sibiu in Romania, where he is attending an informal summit of the leaders of European Union Member States.
In Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that in every European country the main issue in the European Parliament elections is migration. He said that one of the most important questions for the future is whether Europe will succeed in narrowing the divergence in opinions on immigration and restore European unity – although so far not a single such attempt has met with success.
On behalf of the admirers of historian John Lukacs who passed away on Monday and the whole of Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered his condolences to the mourning family, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
On its southern border section Hungary also protects Austria’s borders, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Monday in Budapest after he had talks with Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, President of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). The Prime Minister also said that, due to a statement insulting Hungarian electors, he will be unable to support the People’s Party candidate Manfred Weber for the position of President of the European Commission.
At the invitation of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ), Prime Minister-Fidesz President Viktor Orbán will go on a two-day tour of Transylvania, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief and RMDSZ, the organiser of the programmes informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
Europe should adopt the Austrian model where the centre-right and right cooperate, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview given to the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung which can also be read in Hungarian translation on kormany.hu.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán described Turkey as a key state in the fields of the management of the migration crisis and the protection of borders in the Carmelite Monastery where he received Mevlüt Cavusoglu, Turkey’s Foreign Minister on Friday.