At a summit of the China-Central and Eastern Europe cooperation held in Dubrovnik on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the construction contracts for the modernisation of the Budapest-Belgrade rail link could be signed soon.
On Thursday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will travel to Dubrovnik, Croatia where he will attend the eighth “16+1” summit, the most senior economic cooperation forum of the leaders of Central and Eastern Europe and China, Bertalan Havasi announced.
Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Joseph I sent a letter to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in which he thanked him for his hospitality and the Hungarian government for its financial support, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
At the executive meeting of the Centrist Democrat International, a political organisation of Christian democratic parties, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke about Brexit, the weakening of the European economy and the European parliamentary election campaign.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a speech in Piliscsaba on Tuesday, at the official opening of a building for the Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern studies. In his speech he said that the migration crisis affecting Europe has in fact broadened to become civilizational crisis, and “the East has come to the West”.
At a thanksgiving celebration on Sunday for the consecration of Klapka tér Calvinist church in the Budapest district of Pesterzsébet, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Christian culture is the source of all strength.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief, has told Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest on Tuesday with György Jakubinyi, Archbishop of Gyulafehérvár/Alba Iulia. The subjects under discussion were the visit to Csíksomlyó this year by Pope Francis, and investments which will be important for the religious activities and survival of the Hungarian community in Romania.
In his office in the Carmelite Monastery on Monday, Prime Minister and President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán welcomed the presidents of Hungarian member organisations of the European People's Party.
Bertalan Havasi has said that in his office in the Carmelite Monastery, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received CEO of Deutsche Telekom (DT) Timotheus Höttges, DT European director Srini Gopalan, and CEO of Magyar Telekom Tibor Rékasi. The parties reviewed the opportunities and challenges for the digital development of Hungary, as well as the joint results achieved to date in this area.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received the representatives of the CDU Group of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, at the Carmelite Monastery, Bertalan Havasi said.