French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest on Monday, hoping to secure his backing on topics including investment, nuclear power and European defence ahead of the French Presidency of the European Union.
It is Macron's first visit to Hungary since his 2017 election and the first by a French head of state since 2007.
The French leader will take part in a meeting of the Visegrad countries — Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia — and meet Orban one-on-one as well as the country's opposition leaders.
Ahead of their meeting, Macron described his Hungarian counterpart as "a political adversary, but a European partner".
"Whatever our political sensibilities, whatever our choices, we must
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