Diplomacy

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán greeted his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, and the Polish people in a letter on Poland's national holiday on Friday, the PM's press chief said.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán discussed economic and energy cooperation as well as the deepening of bilateral cultural and education relations with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Samarkand on Thursday, the PM's press chief said.

Hungary and the Maldive Islands have concluded a cooperation agreement on economic ties, higher education and sports, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said on Wednesday in Male, after meeting his Maldivian counterpart, Abdulla Shahid.

Parliament's foreign affairs committee has condemned the local council's decision to remove the statue of a turul bird from the Mukachevo (Munkacs) Castle in western Ukraine, calling on the Ukrainian government to dissociate itself from the move.

Europe needs easily traversable, open internal and secure external borders, President Katalin Novak told a press conference in Vienna on Thursday, after meeting her Austrian counterpart, Alexander Van der Bellen.

The European Commission has "clearly not learnt from its recent mistakes" and refuses to face reality, yet the measures introduced by Brussels have only deepened the energy crisis, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Luxembourg on Tuesday.

Justice Minister Judit Varga highlighted the achievements of the Hungarian government in a lecture delivered at the Washington, DC, headquarters of the Heritage Foundation late on Monday, and said those achievements had helped ruling Fidesz to its fourth two-thirds election victory in April.

Italy's new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni assured Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of her cooperation in a message published on Twitter late on Saturday.

Hungary rejects all proposals that would fracture economic cooperation between the European Union and China, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Budapest on Thursday, arguing that such a development would have a "tragic impact".

Hungary is keeping its embassy in Kyiv open, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday before leaving for a meeting with his European Union counterparts in Luxembourg.