Diplomacy

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Thursday accused Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven of "lying" about the situation in Hungary.

The European Union cannot dictate how Hungarians should educate their children, according to EU treaties and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Thursday.

President Janos Ader discussed ways to handle migration at a meeting with Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella on Thursday. They were in agreement that handling migration should not be exclusively a European Union task.

The speech Ursula von der Leyen delivered on the state of the European Union in the European Parliament on Wednesday was a "huge disappointment", Gergely Gulyas, the prime minister's chief of staff, told MTI.

Cooperation with the member states of the Turkic Council has resulted in mutual help during the coronavirus pandemic, and doubled Hungary' trade volume with the region compared with 2010, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said in Khiva, Uzbekistan, on Thursday.

The countries of central Europe are emerging faster from the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic than the rest of the continent because they have a strategy, have preserved jobs and have pursued developments without reducing their capacities, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said ...

The global economy is on the brink of a new era, Hungary's foreign minister said after a joint session of the Hungarian and Slovenian governments in Celje on Wednesday.

MEPs of Hungary's ruling Fidesz party have voiced protest over the European Commission's "attempts to settle disputes with central and eastern Europe by way of sheer force", Tamas Deutsch, one of the group, said on Wednesday.

The 100th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the United Kingdom and Hungary were celebrated in London on Monday evening.