Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said the city of Veszprém is special not only because of its past but in Veszprém "the future is visible to the naked eye".

Speaking at the opening of the CODE Centre of Digital Experiences on Thursday, the prime minister added that the city showed "how to be inventive in a conservative way".

PM Orbán said being inventive had a long history in Hungary, adding that Hungarians "find enjoyment in kicking up the iron laws of the world in a cunning and endlessly witty way".

"We shoot arrows ahead or backwards, depending on what's needed," he said. "There cannot be a situation that a Hungarian will not be able to solve," he added.

PM Orbán said the CODE centre had come to existence thanks to Hungarian inventiveness, and it was "a nice example" of it.

He added that a villa belonging to the local head of the central bank had been at the location originally, which was later taken over by the Nazi-era Arrow Cross and then the communist-era secret police. The communists eventually demolished the building and erected a "social realist centre of culture named after a true international Communist", Bulgarian national Georgi Dimitrov, he added.

"Common sense would dictate that one should keep clear of such locations, but the people of Veszprém must have thought that they could bring out something good from something bad," he said. "They have brought back art among these walls, they digitised and modernised it and made it innovative, actually repainting it with light," he added.