Orbán: Agreement ‘Protecting EU Unity’ within Reach

MTI-Hungary Today 2020.12.10.

A “good agreement” serving the unity of the European Union “is within reach”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday, ahead of a two-day summit of EU heads of state and government.

Orbán said the summit talks would be “a fight for the unity of our shared continent”.

“Besides a victory for the EU, common sense must also prevail,” he said. “Our nations and millions of people are in dire need of it,” he said, referring measures to combat the pandemic and its economic fallout.

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“We must act rationally to find reliable solutions and the victory of common sense,” the prime minister said.

Featured photo via Viktor Orbán’s Facebook page