Giorgia Meloni to be keynote speaker at Budapest Demographic Summit

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will be one of the keynote speakers at the upcoming Budapest Demographic Summit in mid-September, President Katalin Novák announced on her Facebook page. According to the announcement, Meloni had accepted her invitation to speak at the conference.

The event, officially known as the Budapest Demographic Summit, will be held for the fifth time between 14-16 September and is one of Hungary's biggest international conferences, Novák said in her post. The conference has been held every two years, with the first one organised in 2015.

Giorgia Meloni is one of Viktor Orbán's main allies in Europe. When she was elected Italy's prime minister, he congratulated her by saying it was "A more than deserved victory" and, when the new Italian government was inaugurated, the Hungarian Prime Minister tweeted that it was: "A great day for the European right." Despite this, there has so far been no visible cooperation between the leaders of the two countries, who have markedly different views on the war between Russia and Ukraine, which we discussed in a detailed analysis in the spring.