Orban: Central Europe economy to be maintained

The Visegrad Group has a vested interest in keeping central Europe's economy going while curbing the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after a meeting with his Visegrad Group counterparts in Lublin, in southern Poland, on Friday. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are working to set up a coordination mechanism that will enable by-the-hour cooperation among them on epidemic-related matters, Orban said. He said that the second wave of the pandemic seemed "especially aggressive" with increasing numbers globally, and insisted that the speed with which governments could respond to new developments could be of crucial importance in the next few months.