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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Wednesday participated in a video conference together with European Council President Charles Michel and the prime ministers of Slovakia, Ireland, and Spain, in preparation for an extraordinary European Union summit scheduled for Thursday, the PM's press chief said in ...

Nitrogenmuvek, Hungary's sole producer of artificial fertiliser, on Wednesday said it is suspending the energy-intensive production of ammonia due to high energy prices.

The Hungarian authorities are handling the migration crisis in the wake of the war in Ukraine "flawlessly", Michael Spindelegger, head of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, said in Beregsurany, near the Hungary-Ukraine border, on Wednesday.

It's now coming up to two weeks since Russia began its all-out war against Ukraine. This has now displaced millions across the country, forcing them to flee and look to relocate elsewhere, destination uncertain. Already some 1.5 million-plus refugees have crossed into neighbouring European ...

The Budapest metropolitan council has so far provided shelter to 1,500 refugees from Ukraine and distributed over 10,000 portions of food, the mayor said on Tuesday.

By Tuesday morning, 178,894 people entered Hungary at one of the five border crossings with Ukraine, government spokeswoman Alexandra Szentkiralyi told a press conference after a meeting of the Mational Humanitarian Council tasked with assessing the humanitarian situation inconnection with the war in Ukraine.

Cardinal Michael Czerny, the Vatican under-secretary for migrants and refugees, on Tuesday arrived in Budapest to meet refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine and the organisations providing for them, as well as Hungarian political and religious officials.

The Visegrad Group stands for peace and stopping the war in Ukraine as soon as possible to ensure security in central Europe, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in London on Tuesday.

Hungary must prepare for a growing number of refugees from Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday and confirmed that weapons will not be transported to Ukraine from the territory of Hungary.

China can play a key role in preventing an escalation of the war in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday.