PM Orbán said in a video message on Facebook that Hungary fully supports Austrians. “An attack against you is an attack against us, your pain is ours and your challenges...
As of Monday, Hungarians were able to travel to Austria with no coronavirus-related restrictions.
Justice Minister Judit Varga met Karoline Edtstadler, Austria’s minister for EU and constitutional affairs, for talks in Budapest on Friday.
“It is a shared view that the tasks are the same: to protect the health of the people and ensure the operation of the country,” Gergely Gulyás said.
Austria will send 21 police officers and two police dogs to serve on the Hungary-Serbia border.
16 January 2020, Prague (Praha)
The prime minister said the V4 countries are “signaling to the outside world” their aim to seek cooperation with other European countries and to avoid isolation.
Austria is a natural partner of Hungary and the Visegrád Group, and all of them together can cooperate in crucial areas, including migration, security, border protection, competitiveness, climate protection and enlargement.
The Budapest Public Prosecutor’s Office has brought charges against six people accused of smuggling over 100 migrants across Hungary to Austria.
“I trust that strategic cooperation between [ruling] Fidesz and the Austrian Freedom Party … will continue in the future, and we can maintain friendly ties based on mutual confidence and Christian-Conservative values,” PM Orbán wrote in a letter to Hofer.
"The problem of the European elite is that they do not believe in the power of the individual, the leader. They regard leaders who are able to inspire the people as dangerous," PM Orbán said
6 May 2019, Budapest
In a joint press conference with Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that he’d like to see the same changes in Europe that have occurred in Austria, where the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his ruling Austrian People’s Party thrive in cooperation with the patriotic Freedom Party.