Diplomacy

Hungary is facing a double pressure: while it has so far received 830,000 refugees from the east, it has also prevented 110,000 illegal migrants from entering the country from the south, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in ...

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday, calling on member states to cooperate in preventing fraud harming the EU budget, and urging strict control of the EU recovery funds.

European Union member states, including Hungary and Poland, are in need of all the funds available "in the current challenging situation", Fidesz MEP Balazs Hidveghi said in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

Georgia should have been granted EU candidate status alongside Ukraine and Moldova, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, said in Tbilisi on Friday. He said the decision was "inexplicable ... and harmful to Europe".

Hungary and the German federal state of Bavaria have signed a new three-year cooperation scheme aimed at preserving their shared economic achievements in the current "challenging period", Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday.

Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to Viktor Orbán by phone on Tuesday, and their discussion focused on Ukraine's bid to join the European Union and Hungary's welcoming of war refugees, Orbán's press chief told MTI.

Zsolt Nemeth, the head of parliament's foreign affairs committee, has welcomed the European Commission's decision to recommend granting EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova, but said it was "regrettable" that it has recommended that Georgia be denied candidate status.

Both Hungary and Slovakia have benefitted a lot from their cooperation in the current rather tense global economic situation in which stable and predictable ties are of high value, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Budapest on Friday, after talks with Ivan Korcok, his ...

The head of parliament's sustainable development committee said on Thursday he expected Slovak authorities to state when they will order a stop to pollution of the River Sajo which flows from the neighbouring country into Hungary.

It is "shameful" that European enlargement has stalled in the recent period, Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's foreign minister, said on Wednesday in Podgorica. European security and economic competitiveness would improve with the integration of the Western Balkans, he added.