Tag: orban
World 07.04.20 | 19:26

Hungary begins its second coronavirus stimulus program

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that the second portion of the major stimulus package he has prepared will go into effect. “We will not lose what we have been building for so long”, Orban said, referring to the significant economic growth and rising living standards over the...
World 06.04.20 | 10:37

Hungary: Orban orders public parking to be made available free of charge

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban signed a decree to make public parking free of charge across the country. Orban said that this will help the public while the country tackles with the coronavirus pandemic. The move will apply to public schools as well, which can now be used as parking spaces.
World 04.04.20 | 16:07

Orban: Not now EPP, I’m busy

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban sent a letter to the Secretary General of the Euroepan People’s Party Antonio Lopez – Isturiz telling him he is much too busy to play the usual political games about the membership of the Hungarian ruling Fidesz party in the European center-right group. With...
World 03.04.20 | 20:09

V4: Hungary prepares a major stimulus package, aims to create more jobs than the epidemic destroys

Hungary is introducing a coronavirus fund that will help redice the economic damage the country will suffer from the epidemic. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that he is preparing the greatest stimulus program Hungary has ever seen and it will be geared toward saving and creating jobs. We must create...
World 24.03.20 | 11:59

China delivers three million masks and 86 respirators to Hungary

A Chinese cargo plane delivered three million masks, 100.000 coronavirus testing kits and 86 respirators to Hungary today. Prime Minister Viktor Orban was at the Budapest airport to welcome the cargo, one of the ten such shipments that are expected. Hungary has had 180 confirmed coronavirus patients...
World 17.03.20 | 18:25

Orban says that high immigration levels and the spread of the coronavirus are linked

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that foreign exchange students may have contributed to the spread of the coronavirus in Hungary, which was forced to close down its education system. Orban linked the fight against the spread of the virus with his campaign against high immigration levels i...
World 12.03.20 | 22:56

Ladies first – Orban shows that manners matter even during an epidemic

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted a video of his check-up at the Budapest airport. Orban allowed his wife to have her temperature measured first. “Look out for one another!”, he wrote on his Instagram account. View this post on Instagram Vigyázzunk...
Macedonia 09.03.20 | 15:50

Mickoski meets Orban, calls for an EU accession talks date for Macedonia

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest today, to discuss the prospects of opening EU accession talks for Macedonia. Mickoski said that he is urging the opening of accession talks despite the high levels of crime and corruption perpetrated by...
Balkans 04.03.20 | 16:49

Orban warns that there already are 130.000 migrants in the Balkans

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned that there are 130.000 illegal migrants in the Balkans already, even if the Greek security line on the border with Turkey holds. It won’t be enough to just defend the border between Greece and Turkey, the Hungarian leader said, adding that the EU will...
World 19.02.20 | 11:21

V4: Orban sends memorandum to the European People’s Party

Hungarian PM and ruling Fidesz President Viktor Orban has sent a memorandum to the leaders of the European People’s Party (EPP) with a view to altering the EPP’s strategic guideline. “If we wish to renew the EPP, the internal debates regarding the EPP’s future mission are inevitable”,...
World 16.02.20 | 22:03

Orban: Hungary doesn’t have to be liked by the tired Brussels elites

Hungary has learnt that it doesn’t have to be liked by the tired Brussels elites, said Hungarian Prime MInister Viktor Orban in his state of the nation speech. Orban called for a return to national sovereignty across Europe, as a counter-weight to the concentration of power in Brussels. In the...
World 14.02.20 | 15:28

Hungary promotes family friendly policies in an attempt to increase the birth rate

Hungary will allow families with two or more children to receive subsidies to buy homes and cars, while women with more than four children will be exempt from paying tax. Hungarians have worked hard to achieve the current levels of economic growth, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in defense of the pro-family...
Balkans 14.02.20 | 11:45

V4: Viktor Orban warns that migration pressure may increase on Hungary’s southern border

Migratory pressure on Hungary’s southern border is expected to increase as the weather improves and more and more migrants set out, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday at the crossing point of Roszke on the Hungary-Serbia border, where he inspected the border barrier with Slovakia’s...
World 06.02.20 | 12:26

V4: Economic success is a prerequisite to conservative politics, Orban says

During a panel discussion at the National Conservatism Conference organised by the Edmund Burke Foundation in Rome on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban described economic success as a prerequisite to conservative politics. The Hungarian premier travelled to Italy on Monday where he met Lega chief...
World 02.02.20 | 13:23

V4: Positions on EU budget far apart, Orban says

The member states’ views regarding the European Union’s new multi-annual budget are still far apart, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told reporters after the head-of-government-level meeting of the Friends of Cohesion group in the Portugese city of Beja on Saturday, the V4 news agency...
Balkans 31.01.20 | 14:57

Orban blames Soros for the attempt to push migrants through the Hungarian border

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused the left wing US billionaire George Soros of funding the movement of migrants through the Balkans, after the Hungarian border was stormed on Tuesday. About 60 illegals tried to enter Hungary near the Roszke border crossing, but were quickly apprehended. This...
World 24.01.20 | 11:15

V4: Orban opens door for cooperation with moderate Islamic parties

Christian Democratic parties have a good chance for cooperation with moderate Islamic parties because they have one thing in common: they both insist on retaining their own identities, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at a board meeting of the Centrist Democrat International (CDI) comprising...
World 17.01.20 | 17:16

V4: The EPP situation will have to be resolved, Orban says

Many European People’s Party (EPP) members betrayed Hungary during the EP vote on Thursday. “We were an inch away from quitting” the EPP, Viktor Orban said in his regular Friday radio interview. He emphasized that if the EPP does not stick up for Hungary, “we have to start a new...
World 21.12.19 | 11:20

Hungary takes over six private fertility clinics, will have them offer free treatment to the public

The Hungarian Government announced it is taking over the six private fertility clinics and will boost their funding to make sure the largest possible number of couples have access to treatment there. The Viktor Orban Government is strongly focused on improving Hungary’s demographics and is offering...
World 16.12.19 | 14:14

V4: As he commemorates the Timisoara uprising, Orban says that Central Europe can become one of the most successful regions of the world

Speaking in the Romanian city of Timisoara, at the anniversary of the protests which helped bring down the Ceaucescu regime, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban outlined his goal to turn Central Europe into one of the world’s most successful and competitive regions, where cities are connected...
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