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The European Union has launched its European Action Plan to protect the European elections, fight the spread of false information and to protect media freedoms, Vera Jourova, EU commissioner for values and transparency, told a debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

Hungary's government does not back a proposal for the European Union to start a training mission for the Ukrainian army as this would risk escalating the war, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, on Monday in Luxembourg, where he noted that he lawfully made himself ...

Hungary calls for an immediate ceasefire and peace talks among parties involved in the war in Ukraine as its interest lies in a peaceful Europe, the defence minister said in Brussels on Friday, after a two-day meeting of NATO defence ministers.

If the West and Russia do not engage in talks but instead allow their communications channels to fade, "we are giving up even the hope for peace in the current awful situation", Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Moscow on Thursday.

The European Union's sanctions policy against Russia is "primitive in execution and catastrophic in effect", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a discussion in Berlin on Tuesday.

Serious global security challenges are likely if the war in Ukraine escalates further, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Tuesday in Geneva, where he addressed a meeting of the executive committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The Hungarian delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) "considers the brutal Russian attacks targeting civilians and completely ignoring humanitarian rights unacceptable", Zsolt Nemeth, the head of parliament's foreign affairs committee, said on Monday.

Addressing the Sustainability Expo in Thailand on Thursday, Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's minister of foreign affairs and trade, warned against taking a political or ideological approach to the issue of nature protection.

The countries of the Visegrad Group (V4) have a vested interest in peace being restored in Ukraine as soon as possible, Hungary's defence minister said on Tuesday.

European Union sanctions against Russia have neither "forced Russia to its knees" nor brought peace any closer, but they have harmed Europe, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with public radio broadcast on Sunday, calling the sanctions policy "a total failure".