Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas that Budapest will maintain contact with Russia and China despite opposition from Brussels, according to today’s post on X by Zoltan Kovacs, the government’s international spokesman. He reported that Szijjarto told Kallas that “Hungary will continue engaging with global partners—from the US to Türkiye, Serbia, Russia, China, and beyond—because these decisions affect our energy, security, and economic cooperation... We will not give up the national interest, even if a very serious foreign intelligence intervention is taking place in Hungary’s election—with the involvement of Brussels... Let those accuse us of being pro-Russian or spies, who are ready to pay three times more for gas and electricity than today. Affordable Russian energy” is the main reason for low utility costs in Hungary.
Earlier, both the Washington Post and Politico had continued their ‘Russia-gating’ of Budapest, claiming that Szijjarto had called Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during breaks in EU meetings to give him “live reports on what had been discussed.” Szijjarto called the accusations “lies and fake news.”
