Tag: orban
World 12.12.19 | 21:57

Orban: We cannot allow poor countries to bear the costs of climate change

During negotiations on the fight against climate change, the battle – from a Central European and Hungarian standpoint – will be about “not allowing Brussels bureaucrats to have poor people and poor countries to pay for the costs of combating climate change,” said Hungarian Prime...

World 05.12.19 | 13:27

Orban satisfied that NATO acknowledges mass migration as a security challenge

After the NATO Summit in London on Wednesday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that he is satisfied that NATO acknowledged for the first time that mass migration from the south poses a security challenge and that the alliance should address this issue. Viktor Orban said that it has always...

World 25.11.19 | 22:42

V4: George Soros attempted to meddle in EU affairs through Angela Merkel

In early November, billionaire George Soros placed a phone call to the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) director Daniela Schwarzer, asking her to intervene with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to prevent Hungary’s Commissioner-designate from receiving the new European Commission’s...

World 22.11.19 | 15:05

Viktor Orban: George Soros personally intervened to prevent Hungarian commissioner’s appointment

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that gaining the European Commission’s enlargement and neighbourhood portfolio is Hungary’s greatest diplomatic success of the last ten years. In an interview with the public Kossuth radio Orban said he cannot recall that Hungary had ever managed...

Balkans 07.11.19 | 14:50

V4: Erdogan arrives in Budapest for a meeting with Viktor Orban

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the second major world leader to visit Budapest for meetings with Prime Minister Viktor Orban in only 8 days, after the visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Erdogan was welcomed by his counterpart, Hungarian President Janos Ader, and will meet Orban later...

News Macedonia 05.11.19 | 18:45

V4 leaders disappointed that Macedonia and Albania were blocked from opening EU accession talks

The prime ministers of the V4 countries expressed their commitment to the further enlargement of the European Union, and condemned the postponing of the accession negotiations with the Western Balkan states as a wrong decision by the European Council, the V4 news agency reported. We are all disappointed...

World 25.10.19 | 22:40

V4: Orban calls on the EU to help Turkey provide for the return of migrants to Syria

Hungary’s interest is for Turkey to let migrants go to Syria and not Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Regarding Brexit, Orban emphasized that the primary concern for Hungary’s government is to ensure that the interests of Hungarian employees are not harmed, the V4 news...

World 24.10.19 | 17:02

Viktor Orban on the 1956 revolution: We wanted a free and independent Hungary in a Europe of nations

Neither Europe nor Hungary can survive if it turns against itself and goes against everything vital, including its past and ancestors, if it breaks with the lifestyle based on the triple foundation of liberty, independence and Christian brotherhood which made Europe and Hungary in it the most successful...

World 11.10.19 | 23:10

Macron meets Orban to discuss the latest European Commission crisis

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Hungarian Prime Minsiter Viktor Orban today about the political crisis developing in the EU after his candidate for EU Commissioner Sylvie Goulard was rejected by the European Parliament. Orban earlier had the same issue with the Parliament, and the two leaders...

World 29.09.19 | 19:47

V4: Viktor Orban re-elected as leader of the Fidesz party

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was re-elected as leader of the conservative Fidesz party. Speaking at the Fidesz congress, Orban said that Hungary has no intention of leaving the European Union, but will work to find a compromise between the eastern and western EU members for the future direction...

Balkans 27.09.19 | 11:25

Orban says that Trocsanyi’s sin was in that he helped stop the flow of migrants into Europe

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that the rejection of the candidacy of Laszlo Trocsanyi to be the next EU Enlargement Commissioner by the European Parliament was caused by his work to stop the flow of migrants into Europe. Trocsanyi, the former Hungarian Justice Minister, was voted down by...

Macedonia 14.09.19 | 12:25

“Macedonia never had a friend like the proposed enlargement commissioner”

My meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest in late July was with the goal to lobby for Macedonia to be allowed to open EU accession talks, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski. He told Alsat TV that despite the negative propaganda coming from pro-Government circles over...

Macedonia 13.09.19 | 11:01

Despite the corruption scandal, VMRO will ask EPP parties not to punish the Macedonian citizens

With the collapse of the judiciary, under the weight of a major corruption and abuse of office scandal in the most sensitive judicial institutions, Macedonia is having its case for opening EU accession talks rapidly deteriorate, just as the October European Council draws closer. VMRO-DPMNE President...

World 05.09.19 | 21:35

Orban: If a nation vanishes, something irreplaceable will be lost from the world

Hungarian Prime Minister viktor Orban declared that for the survival of a nation, it is fundamentally important to understand and pass appropriate family policies, in his remarks at the 3rd Demographic Summit in Budapest. A family support system shall be introduced which guarantees that the life standards...

World 02.08.19 | 22:56

Visegrad countries expect to see better days in Brussels

Daniel Deak, analyst for the 21st Century Institute, told Hungarian public service television that Hungary and the Visegrad countries can expect a dramatic change in Brussels politics, as Hungarian premier Viktor Orban and new Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s Brussels meeting had positive...

World 01.08.19 | 21:11

Orban on Von der Leyen: We share same thoughts on several issues

It was a good call to keep the “ideological guerrillas away” and elect leaders with pragmatic instincts, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Hungary’s state broadcaster after meeting Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on Thursday. On the new EC president, Orban said “we made...

Macedonia 01.08.19 | 12:58

Zaev’s honeymoon with Brussels may be at an end

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a time when his conservative wing in the European People’s Party scored a major coup that influenced the outcome of the high level EU negotiations. Only months ago, Orban faced pressures from the centrist...

Macedonia 30.07.19 | 22:43

During a meeting with Orban, Mickoski warns that the unresolved criminal scandals endanger Macedonia’s European path

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski discussed the political situation in Macedonia with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest today, saying that the country’s European perspective is being endangered by the Zaev Government. Mickoski was welcomed by Orban in his Carmelite Monastery...

Macedonia 30.07.19 | 21:31

VMRO leader Hristijan Mickoski meets Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest today. Mickoski and Orban discussed the political situation in Macedonia, as well as joint steps in the European People’s Party, as it elects its new leadership. Mickoski was welcomed with high honors....

Macedonia 30.07.19 | 14:14

Mickoski travels to Vienna and Budapest, will discuss EPP matters with Prime Minister Orban

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski is on a visit to Vienna and Budapest, where he will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The meeting will cover issues related to the current political and economic situation in the Republic of Macedonia, our cooperation as sister parties for the forthcoming...

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