PM Orbán meets US Congress delegation – UPDATE

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with members of the US Congress in Budapest on Tuesday.

The delegation included Senators John Barrasso, Mike Crapo, John Kennedy, Congressman Russell Fulcher and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Orban’s press chief told MTI.

Parties at the talks discussed current bilateral security policy and economic cooperation, as well as issues related to energy supplies to Hungary and central Europe, Bertalan Havasi told MTI.

The sides concluded that bilateral economic and defence ties have been excellent and the two countries’ political relations have significantly improved recently.

Finance Minister Mihály Varga later met Senator Crapo, with whom he discussed bilateral economic ties.

In a statement, the Finance Ministry quoted Varga as saying at the meeting that bilateral ties could receive a boost from the similarities in the positions of the two countries’ governments in areas like tax policy, family support or immigration.

Hungary’s investor and business-friendly economic policy is reflected in the two countries’ relations, Varga said.