PM Orbán travels to Florida to meet Trump, Chinese President Xi may visit Budapest – UPDATED

According to the government-close Hír TV, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán will meet President Trump in Florida where he’s travelling next week. Meanwhile, another government-close media outlet wrote that preparations are underway for the Chinese President’s visit to Budapest.

Orbán-Trump summit on the cards

The New York Times wrote about a possible Trump-Orbán meeting next week. Based on the plans, the two politicians will meet in the former US president’s Mar-a-Lago club. Trump’s team has not responded yet to the NYT’s information. According to Maggie Haberman, the NYT’s former White House reporter, Orbán asked for the ‘summit’, Hír TV wrote.

UPDATE: Orbán to speak at Heritage Foundation event, meet with Trump in US

Prime Minister Viktor Orban will participate at a panel discussion with Kevin Roberts, the head of the conservative Heritage Foundation, in Washington D.C. on Thursday, March 7, the PM’s press chief said on Sunday. The discussion will focus on the future of ties between the US and Hungary, Bertalan Havasi said. On Friday, Orban will meet for talks with former US President Donald Trump in Florida.

Chinese president will visit Hungary?

Meanwhile, index.hu wrote that the Chinese Minister of public security, Wang Xiaohong visited Budapest in February only to prepare the scene for Xi Jinping’s Budapest stay. Serbia’s President, Aleksandar Vučić, confirmed Xi’s visit to Belgrade last week. Index.hu suggested that Budapest might follow the Serbian capital in Xi’s calendar.

Levente Horváth, the director of the Eurasia Centre, said that the 75th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relationships between China and Hungary will be celebrated this autumn. That would give the perfect opportunity for Xi’s visit. Furthermore, Hungary will preside the Council of the European Union in the second half of this year.

Xi’s last visit to Hungary was in 2009, when he served as deputy president of China. In 2016, he visited Poland, the Czech Republic and Serbia but did not come to Budapest.

Orbán travelled to Türkiye today

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Bulgarian President Rumen Radev in Antalya, Turkiye, on Friday, with Hungary-Bulgaria economic relations and energy security high on the agenda, the PM’s press chief said in a statement.

The leaders expressed concern about the potential escalation of the war in Ukraine and called for a ceasefire and peace negotiations, the statement said, adding that both firmly rejected recent talk of sending troops to Ukraine.

Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, and Márton Nagy, the national economy minister, attended the meeting.

Deputy Speaker of Parliament: Visegrád Group ‘alive in parliament cooperation’

Deputy Speaker of Parliament Csaba Hende attended a meeting of the parliamentary heads of the Visegrád countries and Ukraine in Prague on Thursday, and said the event had shown that “the Visegrad cooperation is alive in its parliamentary form”.

The meeting of the heads of government of Czechia, Hnugary, Poland and Slovakia earlier in the week highlighted the common ground on issues such as the fight against illegal migration, a joint stance against EU tax harmonisation to preserve the region’s competitiveness, and the protection of nations’ sovereign right to determine their energy mix, Hende said. They are also working together to create regional energy independence and to protect the European markets from poor quality agricultural produce, he said.

After the meeting, Hende had bilateral talks with Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament.

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2 Comments

The Shame of it All says:

02/03/2024 at 07:19

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy meets with Joe Biden, the real president of the United States. Victor uses tax payer money to go to Florida to meet with Trump, a convicted rapist with 91 felony counts against him, who is the disgraced ex-president. What does this say about Victor?
Doing PROUD the name Hungary or NOT ? says:

03/03/2024 at 08:32

Hungary – How’s life ?
Are you not AGAIN feeling insulted, disrespected, abused over the up-coming visit of your “besieged” Prime Minister – Victor Mihaly Orban ?
Quality of Life ?
Economic & Financial position of the country ?
Investment – Foreign & “other” ?
Property – Real Estate and “other” ?
Un-employment ”
Currency – forint ?
Inflation ?
Education ?
Social Services ?
Public Health – Medical Care & attention ?
Public Transport ?
These (11) eleven points could have added number more, appears Hungarians very pleased in the Orban Governments management of them.
Hungarians appear “content” even joyous, happy maybe pleased with the growing Orban “created” friendships with Russia & China ?
Must bring back MEMORIES of millions from the good “old days” ?
Back again as it grows in our comfort zone – it’s our DNA ?
Must be confidence in the citizens of Hungary – Russia & China, going to be the FUTURE of Hungary ?
That’s LIFE.