Hungary has stopped migration by land, while Italian Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini has stopped migration by sea, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Kossuth Radio’s programme “Good morning, Hungary” on Friday.
At their talks in Budapest on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini agreed on the importance of strong nation states, on the need to give priority in Europe to European culture based on Christian values, and on border defence.
On Thursday morning in the Carmelite Monastery Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Heinz Hermann Thiele, Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Knorr-Bremse AG.
The Prime Minister spoke to the newspaper La Stampa about Matteo Salvini’s visit, the long-term threats of migration and the importance of boosting the Hungarian economy.
On Wednesday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will travel to Warsaw to attend the summit of the countries that joined the European Union in 2004 as well as of Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia, the countries that have joined since, Bertalan Havasi said.
Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief, has said that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an address in Beijing at an in camera forum of leaders involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. In his address the Prime Minister highlighted four conclusions: foreign policy based on the export of democracy does not work; the power of demography must not be underestimated, because hopelessness leads to migration; free trade without physical linkages is mere empty rhetoric; and Central Europe is free and prosperous when the East and the West cooperate with each other.
In Beijing on Thursday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met President of China Xi Jinping. In an article published on Friday, the English-language Chinese newspaper China Daily reported that Mr. Orbán said that Hungary is ready to promote the development of Europe-China relations as a whole through cooperation between China and the countries of the Central and Eastern European region.
Chinese head of State Xi Jinping also received Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Beijing, Bertalan Havasi said.
In Beijing on Thursday, at talks with Prime Minister of China Li Keqiang, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that China’s Belt and Road Initiative – also known as the New Silk Road – coincides entirely with Hungarian national interests.
Speaking in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that while the balance between the East and the West has changed, Hungary does not see this new situation as a threat, but as a source of opportunities which it wants to use by building ever stronger relations with countries in the East.