Those who want to tear down walls first have to go all the way to the wall, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a ceremony held at the Hungarian Embassy in Warsaw.
In a joint video message, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki – the guest of honour at Hungary’s official commemoration event on 15 March – have extolled Hungarian-Polish friendship and issued a general invitation for people to attend the celebrations in Budapest on Friday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will recommend to head of state János Áder the appointment of Mihály Patai as deputy governor of the central bank, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, at the opening of the 12th “Star of the Profession Festival” held at the Hungexpo fair centre in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary offers young people a safe environment and a secure future.
Following talks with Laotian prime minister Thongloun Sisoulith in Budapest on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “Hungarian-Laotian political relations have been elevated to the level of strategic partnership.”
“On Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will receive parliamentary group leader of the European People’s Party (EPP) and the party’s top candidate for the European Parliament (EP) elections Manfred Weber in Budapest”, Deputy State Secretary heading the Prime Minister’s Press Office Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday.
In Poland on Sunday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the role of NATO is being enhanced, because today Europe’s security is fragile.
On Sunday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Defence Minister Tibor Benkő will travel to Poland where they will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Visegrád countries’ NATO accession together with their Czech, Slovak and Polish counterparts.
On the Friday edition of the Kossuth Radio programme “Good morning, Hungary”, Prime Minister and President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán said that pro-immigration forces in the European People’s Party (EPP) have attacked Fidesz and are seeking to transform the entire EPP into a pro-immigration international organisation. He noted, however, that the Hungarian people want to prevent this happening.
In an interview in a book published this week by French politician and essayist Philippe de Villiers, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is quoted as saying that “Not even in our worst nightmares did we think that, twenty-nine years after our enchained nations gained freedom and the continent reunited, Europe would again be vulnerable to imperial ambitions – those which this time do not originate outside its borders, but within them.”