During a lecture in Berlin on Wednesday before the leaders of Germany’s largest corporations, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that 2018 is a crucial year for Europe . “Now is the time to defend the Schengen system if we want to preserve and even increase our competitiveness”, he stressed according to a statement issued to Hungarian news agency MTI by the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi.
Viktor Orbán will be giving a presentation in Berlin on Wednesday at the economic summit organised by publishing house Axel Springer, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief confirmed to Hungarian tabloid Blikk.
The Archbishop of the Syrian city of Aleppo has written a letter thanking Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Hungary for the aid provided to persecuted Christians, the Prime Minister’s’ Press Chief, Bertalan Havasi informed Hungarian news agency MTI.
In an interview published on Monday in the print and online editions of the German daily Bild, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it was the Germans who wanted to take in migrants, not the Hungarians, and that Hungary is doing its job by protecting the Schengen borders.
2018 will be the year for restoring the people’s will, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Friday in the Seeon Cloister Church in Germany, on the second day of the three-day meeting of the Bundestag members of the Christian Social Union (CSU).
After the Polish Prime Minister’s visit yesterday, on Thursday in Budapest Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met with another European prime minister, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. The Hungarian Prime Minister described the Irish people as one of Europe’s most successful nations in his press statement made after the talks.
The EU procedure instituted against Warsaw is unfair and unlawful; Hungary stands by Poland on this matter, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview which was broadcast on the Polish public service television channel TVP on Wednesday evening.
On Thursday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will receive Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Parliament Building, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
At a press conference held jointly with Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the Central European economic models work and the countries of the region are playing a stabilising role in the European Union; therefore they want that role to be reflected in their impact on EU affairs.
New Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s first official foreign bilateral visit will take place in Hungary where he will have talks with Viktor Orbán. The visit will be held on 3 January, Bertalan Havasi, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.