In Göd on Monday, at the opening ceremony of Samsung SDI’s electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that in 2017 reindustrialisation in Hungary will step up to a higher level.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, has informed the kormany.hu government website that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Moldovan head of state Igor Dodon in Budapest’s Parliament Building on Friday afternoon.
In Hódmezővásárhely, after signing an agreement forming part of the Modern Cities Programme with Mayor István Almási, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the city is continuing and preserving for the future the Hungary’s old traditions, way of life and culture, and for this it deserves our gratitude.
Bertalan Havasi, head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister, has informed the kormany.hu government news portal that on Friday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had a telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin, in which they discussed current issues linked to Hungarian-Russian relations.
In Brussels on Thursday, before a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s heads of state and government, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that it is necessary to highlight the significance of the alliance’s Balkans enlargement, as this is an important means of consolidating peace and stability in the region.
At a demographics forum held on the first day of the World Congress of Families in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that the Government is continuing to increase the level of family tax benefits, and “families with two children are at the focus of this increase”. Mr. Orbán announced details of a new action plan – adopted in the previous day’s Cabinet meeting – to encourage the birth of more children.
On Tuesday, at the official opening of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Laser Research Centre in Szeged, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called the complex the largest scientific development project in modern Hungarian history. “The Research Centre is not a project enabling us to catch up with Europe, but one with which Europe is catching up with the world”, the Prime Minister said.
According to Viktor Orbán, we are seeing a repeat of the attacks against Hungary of four years ago, but with much greater intensity and force, and infused with a great deal of hatred. The Prime Minister was speaking in an interview aired on Monday evening on Slovenian television channel Nova 24.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, has informed the government news portal kormany.hu that, following the terror attack in Manchester, Prime Minister Orbán has written a letter of condolence to British prime minister Theresa May.
In Parliament on Monday, after talks with his Estonian counterpart, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary has always had excellent and close relations with Estonia.