Diplomacy

Liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt's letter to Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, contains "grossly slanderous and hot-tempered attacks against Hungary, and is in essence anti-Hungarian and racist," Fidesz MEP Tamas Deutsch said in a letter on Friday.

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Friday talked by phone with Abdulaziz Kamilov, the Special Representative of the President of Uzbekistan for Foreign Affairs, and said that peace was the only solution to the crisis in Ukraine.

Hungary has achieved "fantastic results" in its fight against racism and anti-Semitism, with "the government at the forefront" of those efforts, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Vienna on Thursday. After talks with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Orbán told a joint press conference that ...

The European Union has a historic obligation to boost the integration of the Western Balkans, and abandoning that plan would seriously harm Hungary's security interests, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Wednesday, after talks with his Bosnia and Herzegovinan ...

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Tuesday spoke with Aleksandar Vucic, the Serbian president by phone and they stated their commitment towards cooperation between their respective countries, Orban's press chief said.

Hungary-China relations are stable, underpinned good cooperation at a personal level fostered through education and culture, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, said at the opening ceremony of the Q Contemporary art gallery in Budapest.

Hungary wants close cooperation with Austria, including Burgenland, because several challenges can only be resolved through joint efforts, the foreign ministry said on Friday citing minister Peter Szijjarto.

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will receive Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for official talks in Vienna next Thursday, the prime minister's press chief has said.

Hungary's energy security must be guaranteed, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday in Moscow, adding that Hungary would acquire an extra 700 million cubic metres of natural gas above the contracted volume.

Introducing a global minimum tax for corporations would be the "coup de grace" for the European economy and put the Hungarian economy to trial, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.