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 yourjudicial your government s commitment to reform your judicial system your government s commitment to reform yourjudicial system and reform your judicial system and also reform yourjudicial system and also to reform key pieces of legislation such as your child protection act which many in europe see as fun
They are different but we will not accept any kind of pressure on ours. when it comes to the bank, we still believed before the war that the bank could have played an important role in giving financial assistance to the economy development here in central europe. since the war has broken up it became obvious that the bank cannot fulfil these goals. and since the united states impose sanctions on the bank we decided to leave the bank as well. ~ ., decided to leave the bank as well. ~ . , ., .. well. what will you do if the us congress well. what will you do if the us congress puts well. what will you do if the us congress puts new- well. what will you do if the i us congress puts new sanctions on hungarian individuals and institutions? there is a bill that may come before congress next month calling for sanctions on hungary. how will you respond? you respond? don t go into science fiction, you respond? don t go into science fiction, we - you respond? don t go into science fiction
Azerbaijan hungary, of infrastructural developments are being necessary in the south eastern part of europe. we have reached out to the european commission together with the romanian, with the bulgarian, with the greek and turkish colleagues in order to give financing for such kind of project in order to make sure that we can buy gas from new source. no real commitment has been made yet from the side of the european commission. we have reached out to the polish as well since they are expanding their capacities regarding lng so if there is more coming into poland we will be able to buy from there as well which is going to be another source. (crosstalk) well which is going to be anothersource. (crosstalk) but another source. (crosstalk) but the anothersource. (crosstalk) but the question is how we ensure the question is how we ensure the safe energy supply to the country now and tomorrow. you are still 80% reliant on russian gas when other european countries have cut their 80% get down t
What i think of it, it is interesting what ukrainians think about stopping any quote to you the words of the economic advisor to president zelensky who says this of you being in moscow last week doing your energy deals. he says you have to be completely blind not to see what kinds of crimes you in hungary are sponsoring, buying more gas from the russians means you are simply giving them more capacity to escalate the war. giving them more capacity to escalate the war. ok, so, can i answer now? escalate the war. ok, so, can i answer now? go escalate the war. ok, so, can i answer now? go ahead. - escalate the war. ok, so, can i answer now? go ahead. thank| escalate the war. ok, so, can i- answer now? go ahead. thank you so much. answer now? go ahead. thank you so much- so answer now? go ahead. thank you so much. so once answer now? go ahead. thank you so much. so once again, answer now? go ahead. thank you so much. so once again, it - answer now? go ahead. thank you so much. so