Hungary's prime minister Victor Orban, who has expressed fears that migration will undermine Europe's Christian identity, told Egypt's visiting president on Friday that he nonetheless respects Islam ‘as one of the great intellectual and spiritual creations of humanity. In many places in Europe today there is fear of Islam, moreover there are places where it is considered an enemy. Hungary is not such a country.’  Orban also told the Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that Egypt was necessary for stability in the Arab world and ‘since distances in the modern world have shrunk there is no stability in Europe without a stable Egypt.’ During their meeting, the two countries signed several cooperation agreements and Orban said Hungary would provide scholarships to 100 Egyptian students.