Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday that Europe will never be complete without the integration of the Balkans, which is why the Hungarian presidency has called a European Union and Western Balkans summit.
PM Orbán told an international presser on the Hungarian presidency's program following a plenary of the European Parliament that EU defense policy and strengthening its technological basis were on the presidency's agenda and they will be on the agenda of a Budapest meeting on November 7.
He said the next item on the planned agenda for the talks is enlargement policy, and added that Europe will never be complete without the integration of the Balkans.
"We promised to the Western Balkans countries twenty years ago that they will be given entry, and it is time to fulfil the promise," he said, adding that the Hungarian presidency has also called a summit of the Western Balkans and the European Union.
Enlargement must be merits-based, he said, adding that without Serbia no enlargement will be successful, because the Western Balkans countries cannot be integrated without Serbia.
PM Orbán said the Hungarian presidency also addressed agriculture. The goal is to create a competitive, crisis-resistant and farmer-friendly European agriculture, he said.
If the program points of the Hungarian presidency are fulfilled, then its slogan "Make Europe Great Again" will come to life, he added.