PM Orbán personally greeted former Czech President on his 80th birthday
Slovak premier Robert Fico arrived on Friday evening, and Slovak President Peter Pellegrini, Polish President Andrzej Duda and PM Orbán were also in attendance.
Slovak premier Robert Fico arrived on Friday evening, and Slovak President Peter Pellegrini, Polish President Andrzej Duda and PM Orbán were also in attendance.
Czech President Milos Zeman will receive the Order of Merit of Hungary, Grand Cross with Chain.
The talks focused on the priorities of Czechia’s presidency of the Council of the European Union as well as the challenges facing the bloc.
The president said all the four member states have a vested interest in continuing a close Visegrad cooperation.
“We regard the Czech Republic as a friend and strategic partner,” PM Orbán said in his letter.
PM Orbán will hold talks with his Czech counterpart Andrej Babiš.
The details of the agreement would be set down by the end of the week on lifting all travel restrictions between the two countries for inoculated citizens.
Czech PM Babiš will discuss issues concerning the epidemic, including Hungary’s findings about the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
“I want to make it clear that we consider Vera Jourová’s remarks as remarks by an EC vice president,” the foreign minister said. “We do not identify Jourová with the Czech Republic or the Czech government,” he added.
PM Orbán and President Zeman agreed that the two countries are strategic partners and pointed out that last year Czech-Hungarian trade reached a record high