issues, from supporting ukraine with weapons and sanctions to welcoming sweden into nato. my guest is hungary s foreign minister peter szijjarto. will hungary pay a price for its defiance? foreign minister peter szijjarto in budapest, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the invitation again, iam happy to be here again. it is a pleasure to have you back on the programme, mr szijjarto. let me start with simple question. a terrible war has been raging in ukraine for more than a year as a result of the russian military invasion. who do you in hungary, want to see when that more? win that war. we want this war are to be finished, to be stopped as soon as possible because this war takes place in our neighbourhood and you can imagine that if there is a war in your neighbourhood the impacts of the war are being immediate and severe, unfortunately, and please do not forget that when you talk to me, you talk to a representative of a nation, members of which are dying in this w
outlier on many issues, from supporting ukraine with weapons and sanctions to welcoming sweden into nato. my guest is hungary s foreign minister, peter szijjarto. will hungary pay a price for its defiance? foreign minister peter szijjarto in budapest, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the invitation again, iam happy to be here again. it is a pleasure to have you back on the programme, mr szijjarto. let me start with simple question. a terrible war has been raging in ukraine for more than a year as a result of the russian military invasion. who do you in hungary, want to see when that more? we want this war are to be finished, to be stopped as soon as possible because this war takes place in our neighbourhood and you can imagine that if there is a war in your neighbourhood the impacts of the war are being immediate and severe, unfortunately, and please do not forget that when you talk to me, you talk to a representative of a nation, members of which are dying in this
will hungary pay a price for its defiance? foreign minister peter szijjarto in budapest, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the invitation again, i am happy to be here again. it is a pleasure to have you back on the programme, mr szijjarto. let me start with simple question. a terrible war has been raging in ukraine for more than a year as a result of the russian military invasion. who do you in hungary, want to see win that war? we want this war to be finished, to be stopped as soon as possible because this war takes place in our neighbourhood and you can imagine that if there is a war in your neighbourhood the impacts of the war are being immediate and severe, unfortunately, and please do not forget that when you talk to me, you talk to a representative of a nation, members of which are dying in this war. given the fact that there is a significant hungarian community living in the western part of ukraine, members of which are ukrainian citizens, they are mobilised t
cohesion. hungary is a consistent outlier on many issues from supporting ukraine with weapons and sanctions to welcoming sweden into nato. my guest is hungary s foreign minister peter szijjarto. will hungary pay a price for its defiance? foreign minister peter szijjarto in budapest, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the invitation - so much for the invitation again, i am so much for the invitation again, iam happy so much for the invitation again, i am happy to and. it is again, i am happy to and. it is again, i am happy to and. it is a pleasure again, i am happy to and. it is a pleasure to again, i am happy to and. it is a pleasure to have again, i am happy to and. it is a pleasure to have you - again, i am happy to and. it is a pleasure to have you back and do szijjarto. let me start with simple questions to be a terrible war has been raging in ukraine for more than
offended by many criticisms and comments made by swedish government officials against hungary and we consider those unfair. the criticism. so mutual respect would be great to return to our relationship, and if there is mutual respect such decisions are easier and can be made quicker. it is up to the parliamentary group when they will be ready to make the decision. the government s position is clearly supportive. a final question and again, it concerns your outlier status in key institutions. this time, the eu. the european union is placing conditions on giving billions of euros of future funding to hungary, conditions based upon your commitment, your government s commitment to reform your judicial system and also to reform key pieces of legislation such as your child protection act which many in europe see as fundamentally contrary to eu values when it