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There is "great anticipation" in the Middle East and north Africa in connection with Hungary's rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said on Facebook on Monday.

Patriots for Europe, the new European Parliament party family, has established its EP group with 84 MEPs from 12 member states, Kinga Gal, an MEP of Hungary's ruling Fidesz, said in Brussels on Monday.

"China's advocating peace across the world is important for Hungarians," Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday in Beijing, where he met Chinese President Xi Jinping.

A large party group is about to be born on Monday, with the participation of Italy's Lega party, "and this will be key to changing the future of Europe", party leader Matteo Salvini said on Facebook.

While holding the rotating presidency of the European Union, Hungary will continue to work to avoid a trade war between the bloc and China as that would severely damage the EU, the foreign minister said in Budapest on Sunday, at talks with Robin Zeng, ...

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has created a chance of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine at a time when Brussels "is only capable of war communication with Moscow", Roger Koeppel, the editor-in-chief of Swiss weekly Weltwoche, told Hungarian public television on Sunday.

Hungary's government will continue its peace mission "despite the attacks of pro-war European politicians", the foreign minister said on Facebook on Sunday, at the end of the first week of the Hungarian presidency of the European Union.

Hungary has not received any mandate from the EU Council to advance the relations with the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS), Josep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said on Sunday, after Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended an informal ...

Hungary has offered strategic air medical evacuation capacity consisting of an Airbus 319 aircraft and flight and health-care personnel to the Polish-led EUBG battle group, the Hungarian Armed Forces said on Saturday.

The Netherlands's Freedom Party (PVV) will join the emerging European parliamentary group of the newly formed Patriots for Europe, PVV leader Geert Wilders said on platform X on Friday.