The Hungarian Prime Minister was welcomed in Berlin by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz but without much fanfare, as the relationship between the two countries appears frosty.
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00:00Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban dropped into Berlin on Friday ahead of Hungary taking
00:04over the rotating EU Council Presidency for six months. The popular leader visited Stuttgart
00:10sitting next to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday for the Germany-Hungary match,
00:14but politics were very much off the agenda. Now this is the second time that Orban has
00:18visited Scholz in Berlin without a press conference or receiving military honours,
00:23a formality that is normally granted to state visits in Berlin.
00:27Whilst the EU Council Presidency holds little power, it does decide which topics are bounced
00:32to the top of the weekly agenda meeting in Brussels and which remain at the bottom. So
00:36despite the frosty reception from Scholz, he has managed to carve out time to meet Orban,
00:42despite a day packed back with meetings and events. Next week Orban will visit Maloney in Italy,
00:48where the top EU jobs will be dished out at the end of the month. Candidates need 15 out of 27
00:54EU leaders' votes to receive job offers. Liv Stroud, in Berlin, for Euronews.