Prime Minister Viktor Orbán arrived in Sofia where he will attend the Thursday summit of the EU and countries of the Western Balkans, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI in the Bulgarian capital.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, President of Fidesz, had bilateral talks with the leaders of sister parties regarding European issues before the Thursday Sofia summit of the EU and countries of the Western Balkans and after the Wednesday meeting of the European People’s Party (EPP), Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday in the Bulgarian capital.
At the induction ceremony for the new Chief of Staff of the Hungarian Defence Forces in the Cupola Hall of the Parliament Building in Budapest on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that defending Hungary is not the duty of NATO or the European Union, but of Hungary itself.
On Tuesday Bertalan Havasi, Deputy State Secretary heading the Prime Minister's Press Office, told Hungarian press agency MTI that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has started a tour of the country to express his thanks for the support he received in the general election on 8 April. He will revisit several places he visited during the election campaign.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that the “Stop Soros” legislative package and the draft amendment to the Constitution will be submitted to Parliament as soon as the new Hungarian government is formed and has conducted its first Cabinet meeting.
In Warsaw on Monday, on his first official visit abroad after taking his prime-ministerial oath last week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the Hungarian and Polish peoples are not only bound together by a shared past, but also by a shared future: not only by a tested, one-thousand-year friendship, but also by their joint vision of the future.
In Slovenia on Friday, attending a campaign event of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungarians have an interest in the Slovenians doing well and being a rich and happy people, as that is something that Hungarians will also benefit from.
In Lendava/Lendva in Slovenia on Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that, as has been the case until now, over the next four years Slovenia can continue to rely on open-hearted and sincere cooperation with Hungary which strives to be mutually advantageous.
On Friday Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister, informed the Hungarian news agency MTI that Prime Minister of Slovakia Peter Pellegrini had sent a letter to Viktor Orbán, congratulating him on his re-election as Prime Minister of Hungary and highlighting continued intensive cooperation between the two countries. Mr. Havasi also told MTI that Mr. Orbán’s first official foreign visit as prime minister will be to Warsaw.
Hungary can learn a great deal from the attempts Colombia is making to turn its economy into one of the world’s most competitive ones, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday in Budapest after he had talks with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.