Warsaw, July 9 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has held bilateral talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Warsaw, Orbán’s press office chief said on Saturday. Orbán and Erdogan agreed to…
Warsaw, July 9 (MTI) – Stabilising the southern neighbour countries is of vital importance to Hungary in order to curb the wave of migration, therefore, Hungary strives to contribute to stabilising the region, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told MTI on…
Warsaw, July 9 (MTI) – NATO has strengthened its unity in the fight against threats from the south, including illegal migration and people smuggling, Defence Minister István Simicskó said on Saturday after attending a two-day NATO summit in Warsaw. A…
Warsaw, July 9 (MTI) – The North Atlantic Treaty will strengthen the protection of its “Eastern flank” without harming a NATO-Russia agreement, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Saturday after attending a two-day NATO summit in Warsaw. Orbán told…
Warsaw, July 8 (MTI) – Attending a foreign ministers’ meeting at the NATO summit in Warsaw, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, called on NATO to invite Georgia to join the organisation and urged acceleration of NATO’s enlargement. Speaking by phone…
Budapest, July 8 (MTI) – Hungary is doing “exceptionally well” in terms of defence spending, which has increased by 20 percent since the NATO summit in Newport in 2014, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told MTI over the phone from the…
Budapest, June 21 (MTI) – Hungary supports Albania’s Euro-Atlantic integration and has urged the European Commission to make a proposition for accession talks with that country, the Hungarian foreign minister said on Tuesday. Peace and stability in the western Balkans…
Budapest, June 14 (MTI) – Countries in the Visegrád Group (V4) will add a company of soldiers to NATO’s mission in the Baltics, the Hungarian defence ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The statement said that the security of…
Brussels, May 20 (MTI) – Cooperation between the European Union and NATO is “more necessary than ever” because Europe’s security is seriously impacted by the migration crisis, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, said after a meeting of his NATO counterparts…
Brussels, May 19 (MTI) – Montenegro signed an accession treaty at the Brussels meeting of NATO foreign ministers on Thursday, and this will greatly contribute to the stability of the Western Balkans, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said. The last time…
Budapest, May 6 (MTI) – The European Commission plan to fine member states that refuse to take in migrants 250,000 euros per migrant is “outrageous”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public radio on Friday. In his regular interview to Kossuth…
Budapest, May 3 (MTI) – Hungary continues to support Macedonia’s efforts to join NATO and the European Union, Defence Minister István Simicskó said on Tuesday. The stability of the Western Balkans is important to Hungary and to the whole of…
Jurmala, April 22 (MTI) – Hungary has agreed to contribute a company of soldiers to NATO’s mission in the Baltic states in 2017, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday. Under the agreement, the Visegrad Four (V4) grouping of Hungary,…
Budapest (MTI) – The government regards its proposal for a referendum on illegal migration as important as the one on Hungary’s NATO and European Union accessions, respectively, government office chief János Lázár said on Thursday. Lázár told a press conference…
Budapest, March 29 (MTI) – Georgia is ready to advance to the next level in the process of its integration into the European Union and NATO, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Tuesday after talks with his Georgian…
Press release – Márton Gyöngyösi says Hungary as a NATO member takes more responsibility than the security guarantees we are provided. Jobbik’s MP and vice president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian National Assembly gave an interview on…
Budapest, March 16 (MTI) – Hungary’s trade with the Baltic states rose by 9 percent last year alone and doubled since 2010, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at a business forum in Budapest on Wednesday. In his closing remarks…
Budapest, March 16 (MTI) – Hungary and Estonia have always been “strong and stable” allies, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after talks with his Estonian counterpart in Budapest on Wednesday. Speaking at a joint press conference with Marina Kaljurand,…
Budapest, February 25 (MTI) – Global threats have changed and become more complex over the recent period, making the security policy environment less predictable, Hungary’s foreign minister told a security conference in Budapest on Thursday. The political, economic, social and…
Budapest, (MTI) – Hungary welcomes a NATO defence ministers’ decision to launch navy action to fight illegal migration and human smuggling along the shores of Greece and Turkey, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The ministerial meeting in Brussels, where…