On Thursday afternoon in the Parliament Building Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received, on a one-to-one basis, several speakers of the international conference “The Future of Europe” held in Budapest, Bertalan Havasi, the Deputy State Secretary heading the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.
British conservative author and editor Douglas Murray, Stephen K. Bannon, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief and chief strategist, and US economist, music critic and author David P. Goldman each had one-hour-long informal discussions with the Prime Minister, the head of the Prime Minister’s press office said.
The conference entitled “The Future of Europe” is an outstanding cultural and scientific event of the 2017-2018 Hungarian Presidency of the V4. As the organisers highlight on their website, the event “represents an extraordinary opportunity to analyse the full array of political and cultural processes as well as to put our identity-creating cultural values in the limelight which, in addition to contributing to shape the present and the future of Europe, the most exciting and most lively scene of our civilisation, also define the elbow room of the countries of Central Europe within and beyond the European Union".