Prime Minister Viktor Orbán with the EU summit of heads of state and prime ministers opened with commemorations marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, in Ypres on Thursday.

The leaders of the member states were received by President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy at the In Flanders Fields Museum, following which they visited the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, where they paid tribute to the fallen. The European Council leaders also inaugurated a memorial in the form of a "peace bench" in the garden located to the south of the Menin Gate.

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At the end of the day the heads of state and prime ministers had dinner in Ypres and had an informal discussion on strategic decisions concerning the future of the EU.

(Prime Minister's Office)