In Salzburg on Wednesday, arriving at a meeting of prime ministers belonging to the European People’s Party (EPP) which took place before an informal meeting of EU heads of state and government, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told journalists that Hungary insists on the right to carry out its task of defending its borders.
In Moscow on Tuesday, at a joint press conference held after his meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary prizes its existing relations with Russia, saying that “both of us have an interest in maximising our successes”.
In Moscow on Tuesday, prior to his talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán described relations between Hungary and Russia as balanced and predictable.
In Parliament on Monday, before the start of daily business, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that “We shall not surrender the right to defend our borders”.
On Monday morning in the Parliament Building Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Timotheus Höttges, Chief Executive of Deutsche Telekom (DT), Srini Gopalan, Member of the Board Management for Europe and Tibor Rékasi, Chief Executive of Magyar Telekom, with whom he reviewed the results achieved jointly in the field of Hungary’s digital development as well as the prospects and challenges of the next few years, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief said.
Speaking about the bodies of the European Union on Friday morning’s Kossuth Radio programme “180 Minutes”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “They want to take away Hungary’s right to defend its own borders”, and that “they want to send mercenaries here from Brussels and would let in migrants”.
Following Tuesday’s European Parliament debate on the situation in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that the issue of migration is dividing the European People’s Party (EPP), which is trying to please the social democrats and liberals, so that they can form a new coalition with them following next year’s elections.
At the plenary session of the European parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, during the debate on the Sargentini Report, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Hungarian MEPs who are preparing to vote against Hungary that “the trouble with you is that you hate me more than you love your country.”
At a plenary session of the European Parliament on Tuesday, during the debate on the so-called “Sargentini Report” on the state of the rule of law in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told MEPs that “you want to denounce Hungary because the Hungarian people have decided that our homeland will not become an immigrant country.”
In the Parliament Building in Budapest, in a press statement following talks with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “Relations between Hungary and Vietnam are being raised to the level of strategic partnership”.