Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has doubled down on his stance that the EU should focus on completing the accession of the Western Balkans and that "Eastern enlargement" should be addressed afterwards.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto visited Tehran on Feb. 22, meeting his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and signing a trade deal in the agriculture and food industry sectors.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba considers Hungarian President Viktor Orban and Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto to be pro-Hungarian, not pro-Russian, Hungarian news outlet Telex reported on Jan. 30.
László Toroczkai, leader of the Hungarian far-right Mi Hazank party, has announced claims to Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast if Ukraine loses its statehood as a result of the war. Source: Index, a Hungarian news outlet; European Pravda Details: In a speech at the party's annual conference in Budapest on Saturday (27 January), Toroczkai claimed that pressure from "international financiers" had led to the war in Ukraine, a war that would "destroy Europe and send the continent's economy to the bottom"
Budapest has “not received sufficient evidence” to condemn the delivery of North Korean weapons to Russia, the Hungarian news outlet 444.hu wrote on Jan. 27, citing the country’s Foreign Ministry State Secretary Péter Sztárály.