Hungary-Poland ties forward-looking
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Hungarian-Polish relations are forward- rather than backward-looking, Zsolt Németh, the head of Hungarian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said on Wednesday, declaring an interest in finding solutions to problems instead of dwelling on them.
Addressing a panel discussion on Polish-Hungarian ties at the 31st International Economic Forum in Karpacz, in south-western Poland, Németh welcomed recent comments by President Mateusz Morawiecki on reviving bilateral and Visegrád Group cooperation “in the current difficult economic and political situation”.
In response to Morawiecki’s interview in the Sieci weekly, Németh told MTI that Hungarian-Polish relations had passed through a period of crisis in the past six months.
“We in Hungary, however, have always underscored that we will not allow the war [in Ukraine] to destroy Hungarian-Polish relations,” he said.
He dismissed Hungarian press commentary suggesting that Morawieczki’s change of heart was linked to the issue of blocked EU recovery funds for Poland as “utterly ridiculous”. In disputes with the European Union, Poland and Hungary had always “stood shoulder to shoulder” despite differences over the war in Ukraine, he said.
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