- I believe that the ties that bind us are much stronger than the points on which we disagree at the moment, Katalin Novák said about the cooperation within the V4 Group, which includes Slovakia and Poland in addition to the Czech Republic and Hungary.  Katalin Novák and Czech Miloš Zeman. Photo by MTI/Noémi Bruzák

"The best sign of friendship is that we can talk openly about everything with each other. We hope that the war will end as soon as possible, but we are sure that our friendship will last forever", said Hungarian President Katalin Novak after a meeting with Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki. Photo by Paweł Supernak/PAP

On 1 March, the debate on Hungary's ratification of Sweden and Finland's NATO membership will finally begin in the Hungarian parliament. According to local media, the final vote on the matter is expected after March 6. Photo by ROBERT GHEMENT/PAP/EPA (JAP)

If 2022 was the most difficult year, then 2023 will be the most dangerous year since the regime change, Hungarin Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his annual “State of the Nation” address on Saturday. “Alongside migration, which is slowly becoming permanent, we have two new enemies, two new threats.

Security issues, including ways to effectively increase the North Atlantic Alliance's deterrence capabilities, cooperation in the field of transport infrastructure and within the Visegrad Group, as well as the views of the new Czech president on the Three Seas Initiative, were the topics of the conversation between President Andrzej Duda and the President-elect of the Czech Republic, Gen. Petr Pavel.  

"The chapter on Hungary in the rule of law report commissioned by the European Commission is arbitrary, biased and discriminatory" - said the heads of several right-wing, conservative think tanks in Hungary in a letter to the European Commission.  Ursula von der Leyen.

"Interference with the lives of families and the education system is an attack on our national sovereignty", Gergely Gulyás, Head of the Prime Minister’s Office, told the "Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung". Gergely Gulyás. Photo by SZILLARD KOSZTICSAK/MTI/PAP/EPA (JAP)

   Specialists work at Number 4 Reactor of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant in Paks, Hungary, 2019. Photo by TAMAS SOKI/MTI/PAP/EPA (JAP)

A former general Petr Pavel prevailed over a billionaire former prime minister Andrej Babiš on Saturday in the runoff vote. Retired NATO general Pavel has defeated opponent Babiš with 58 percent of the vote and will become just the fourth Czech president in the country's 30-year history. Photo by MARTIN DIVISEK/PAP/EPA

Hungary’s security comes first, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview on Friday. Photo by MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office/Zoltán Fischer

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will be held in Budapest again in May 2023. Former US Senator and member of the Republican Party, Rick Santorum, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, Hungary, 19 May 2022. Photo by Szilard Koszticsak / MTI / PAP/EPA

Retired general Petr Pavel scored a narrow win over ex-premier Andrej Babis in the first round of the Czech presidential election on Saturday. Petr Pavel. Photo by Vit Simanek/CTK/PAP