Orban: Hungary, Cape Verde linked by Christian culture

Hungary and Cape Verde are linked by their Christian cultures, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in the island country's capital of Praia on Thursday. Orban wrapped up a two-day visit to the country, where he and his delegation met Ulisses Correia e Silva, the prime minister, Olavo Correia, the deputy PM and finance minister, and Foreign Minister Luis Filipe Tavares. Orban noted that he and Correia e Silva are both deputy leaders of the Centrist Democrat International (CDI). The prime minister said that when he and Correia e Silva met in Budapest, they realised that "the Christian culture we grew up in allows us to have a similar view of the world, despite being thousands of kilometres apart". He said it was rare nowadays for a country to openly identify as Christian. "This is banned in Europe," he said, adding that "we can't talk about questions of identity there; it's a different world."