Orban on V4-Egypt summit: Strengthening Egypt crucial

Strengthening Egypt is in the European Union's "vital interest", Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after a meeting of representatives of the Visegrad Group and Egypt in Budapest on Tuesday. Orban told a press conference held jointly with Slovak counterpart Eduard Heger, Poland's Mateusz Morawiecki, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi that migration was much worse now than in 2015, and the EU could not cope without external allies such as Egypt, "one of the most obvious allies". At the meeting, Morawiecki reported on the migration pressure at Poland's eastern border, Orban said, adding that the pressure on Hungary's southern border was also increasing. "We are beseiged," he said.