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European Union environment ministers will discuss competitiveness, climate change and financing issues at a two-day informal meeting in Budapest, the state secretary in charge of environmental affairs and the circular economy said on Thursday.

Whereas Hungary backs NATO cooperation with Indo-Pacific countries, this must not come at the expense of the potential "massive tragedy" of forming an "anti-China bloc" Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, said on the closing day of the NATO summit in Washington, DC on Thursday.

NATO has "serious dilemmas" concerning the war in Ukraine, "especially since members states sharply reject dialogue with Russia, yet Israel is being pressed by half the world to start negotiations with a terrorist organisation to settle the Gaza conflict," Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, ...

Hungary has delivered an action plan to Ukraine with proposals on developing economic cooperation and creating special economic zones on either side of the border, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister said in Washington, DC on Wednesday.

The time has come for NATO "to take on a greater role in the peace mission for Ukraine and in starting meaningful talks", Lorinc Nacsa, the head of the Hungarian delegation at the NATO parliamentary summit under way in Washington, DC, said late on ...

The new Patriots for Europe EP group will aim to bring common sense back into European politics, Kinga Gal, an MEP of Hungary's ruling Fidesz and the group's first vice-president, said in an interview in daily Magyar Nemzet's Wednesday edition.

Budapest will be aiming to strengthen the European Union's competitiveness during the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union, Janos Boka, the EU affairs minister, said in Brussels on Wednesday.

Realistically, NATO membership for Ukraine "is clearly out of the question" as this would raise the threat of a direct conflict with Russia, the foreign minister said in Washington, DC on Wednesday.

Hungary and Turkiye are strengthening cooperation to make sure that "peace returns to the agenda of international organisations", the foreign minister said in Washington, DC on Wednesday.

A ceasefire and peace talks are the only solution to the Ukraine war, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.