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Strong, sovereign countries add to NATO's strength, a defence ministry official said on Thursday, opening an international conference entitled "NATO75: Hungary and the Future of NATO" in Budapest on Thursday.

The pagers used in detonations in Lebanon were purchased by a Sofia-based company from Taiwan, news portal Telex has reported, adding that the Hungarian company linked to the case did not play an active role in the supply of the devices.

A "manhunt" for politicians and governments that reject migration is under way, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, said in Budapest on Wednesday, referring to the EU's "huge fine" levied on Hungary and the six-year prison sentence sought for Matteo Salvini, Italy's deputy PM.

The European parliamentary group Patriots for Europe are standing by Italian deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the League party, against whom prosecutors are seeking a 6-year prison term, Fidesz MEP Kinga Gal, the deputy leader of PfE, said on Tuesday.

The stakes in a United States presidential election have never been as high as they are now, Balazs Orban, the Hungarian prime minister's political director, said in a keynote address to an international geopolitical summit in Budapest on Tuesday.

Northern and western European, and Baltic states, should "finally put an end to deception" and talk sincerely about the issue of European Union enlargement, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday.

Hungary supports the accession of Romania and Bulgaria as fully-fledged members in the EU's Schengen border regime, Barna Pal Zsigmond, state secretary at Hungary's European affairs ministry, told a panel discussion in Tirgu Mures (Marosvasarhely) on Friday.

Ukraine has threatened the energy security of Hungary and Slovakia by making Russian Lukoil's crude oil transit impossible and the European Commission has not taken any action, the foreign minister said on Thursday.

Aurel Perca, the archbishop of Bucharest, noted the "attacks against Europe's Christian values" in his sermon at a ceremonial mass in Budapest's Saint Stephen's Basilica, on the day of the basilica's name-giver and Hungary's national holiday on Tuesday.

Ukrainian children who have fled to Hungary from the war need material aid and social support to start the upcoming school year, the UN's children's fund UNICEF said in a statement on Monday, coinciding with the opening of an exhibition of photomontages in City ...