In an interview published in the Thursday issue of the weekly Figyelő – which was primarily concerned with foreign policy issues – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it is Hungary’s goal to incentivise the world’s major economic powers to have an interest in Hungary’s economic success. The interview was conducted with the Prime Minister after US secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s visit to Budapest.
Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister, informed Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has offered his condolences to Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, following the death of former Polish prime minister Jan Olszewski.
Bertalan Havasi, Press Chief to the Prime Minister, has informed Hungarian press agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has written an open letter in reply to the winners of the Lendület (“Momentum”) Programme. The latter are young researchers who have returned from abroad, and who a few days ago wrote an open letter asking the Prime Minister to call a halt to the restructuring of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA).
After a hearing of the candidate in Parliament, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán intends to recommend the reappointment of György Matolcsy as Governor of the National Bank of Hungary to President of the Republic János Áder.
In his “state of the nation” address at the Castle Garden Bazaar in Budapest on Sunday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced a seven-point family protection action plan. The Prime Minister said that Hungarians once more have confidence in their future, and national unity has been created on the issue of families.
In the village of Visonta in Heves County on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán inaugurated the Viresol Kft. wheat starch plant. He described the plant as another milestone for the Hungarian food industry, assisting grain processing in Hungary to enter an entirely different dimension.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Managing Director of the National Federation of Swimming (FINA) Cornel Marculescu held talks in Budapest’s Carmelite Monastery on the prestigious aquatic sporting events to be held in Hungary in the upcoming years, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI.
At a meeting of government leaders from Germany and the Visegrád Group (V4) in Bratislava on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that all major decisions will have to be deferred until after the decision made by European citizens in May – in the elections to the European Parliament (EP).
On Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will be travelling to Bratislava, where he will be attending the summit of the heads of government of the Visegrád Group (V4) countries and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi said.
The Prime Minister’s press chief Bertalan Havasi has informed Hungarian news agency MTI that on Thursday afternoon President of the Spanish People’s Party Pablo Casado initiated a telephone conversation with President of Fidesz, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.