Hungary is unable and is unwilling to take back anyone, but is ready at any time to help with transporting illegal immigrants back to Greece, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán pointed out in Berlin at his meeting with Horst Seehofer, President of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), German Federal Minister of the Interior.
In telephone negotiations on Tuesday evening, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán and Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz agreed that Hungary will not conclude any bilateral agreement on migrants with Germany until such an agreement is reached between Austria and Germany.
In Budapest’s Castle District, at the National University of Public Service’s passing out ceremony for police cadets, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that today the Hungarian people expect the Government and the police to defend the country, families, shared values and achievements from external and internal threats.
In a video message evaluating the first day of the latest European Council summit, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it had resulted in a major victory for the Visegrád 4 (V4).
In a video message posted on his Facebook account ahead of the latest EU summit, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that today border defence is wanted not only by people in Hungary, Central Europe and Italy or Austria, but by people across the whole of Europe.
Arriving in Brussels on Thursday for a two-day meeting of the heads of state and government of European Union Member States, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that European democracy has faltered, and therefore “we want to restore democracy in Europe”.
The Prime Ministers of the Visegrád countries – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiezki – will hold a separate meeting with French head of state Emmanuel Macron in Brussels on Thursday, ahead of the meeting of the European Council, Bertalan Havasi, the deputy state secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister, told the government news portal kormany.hu on Tuesday.
On Wednesday morning in the Parliament Building Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and István Pásztor, President of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, had talks about programmes which seek to support Hungarians in Vojvodina, the provincial decision on red-letter days in Vojvodina and Serbia’s EU integration, Bertalan Havasi, the deputy state secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the government news portal kormany.hu.
On Wednesday morning in the Parliament Building Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with Meir Ben-Shabbat, Israel’s National Security Advisor, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the government news portal kormany.hu.
Public administration has no other legitimacy and no other yardstick than the service of the people and country, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday in the Parliament Building at the ceremony held for handing over the appointment deeds of the heads of government offices.