Corporation tax to be lowered to nine per cent next year

2016. november 17.

At the Regional Digital Conference in Budapest on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that corporation tax will be lowered to single digits next year: a rate of nine per cent will apply equally to small and medium-sized enterprises and large corporations.

Significant wage rises are needed

2016. november 10.

At a conference of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has called for significant wage rises.

Viktor Orbán presents award to President of Bulgaria

2016. november 10.

In the Hungarian Parliament Building, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has presented President of the Bulgarian Republic Rosen Plevneliev with the Grand Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit with Chain and Gold Star.

The goal is to ensure that the rights of Hungarians living in Britain are not curtailed

2016. november 10.

Speaking in London on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that Hungary seeks to ensure that the rights of Hungarians living in Britain are not curtailed when Britain leaves the EU.

Cooperation between China and East-Central Europe is in the best interests of the whole of Europe

2016. november 6.

At a summit of the leaders of China and East-Central Europe in the Latvian capital Riga on Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that cooperation between China and East-Central Europe is in the best interests of the whole of Europe.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with Chinese Premier

2016. november 5.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with the Chinese Premier in Riga, Bertalan Havasi, the head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Saturday in Riga.

The constitutional amendment is a national cause, and cannot be linked to party political debates

2016. október 28.

On Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” programme, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “The Seventh Amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary is an issue of national interest and cannot be linked to any party political debate or economic issue”.

We must save Brussels from sovietisation

2016. október 24.

At the official state celebration held in Kossuth Lajos Square in Budapest on Sunday to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that today the task of Europe’s freedom-loving peoples is to “save Brussels from sovietisation”.

No decision which is contrary to Hungary’s best interests has been adopted

2016. október 22.

In Brussels on Friday, after a meeting of the European Union’s heads of state and government, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the approval of mandatory resettlement quotas was successfully prevented, and no decision that is contrary to Hungary’s best interests was adopted at the summit.

Ukraine must be granted visa-free travel

2016. október 21.

On Thursday, at his arrival in Brussels at the two-day summit of EU head of states and governments, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that it would be time to do something for Ukraine and there is one thing we can do for the Ukrainians: we can grant them the possibility of visa-free travel.