Magyar heads to Poland to revive Visegrád ties
Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar used his first official foreign trip this week to rebuild ties with Poland and revive regional cooperation within the Visegrád Group (V4), marking a sharp break with Viktor Orbán’s foreign policy.
The visit to Kraków, Warsaw and Gdańsk came as Magyar’s government faces mounting pressure at home over Ukrainian grain imports and tries to push through sweeping constitutional reforms in Budapest.
Accompanied by Foreign Minister Anita Orbán, Magyar met Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw to repair relations strained under the previous Fidesz government over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“If Hungarian history was difficult, then Polish history was extremely difficult,” Magyar said alongside Tusk. “Yet Poland is still here … and Hungary is also here.”
Magyar invited Tusk, as well as the Czech and Slovak prime ministers, to a V4 summit in Budapest by late June. Tusk welcomed Magyar’s election as a “fantastic victory”…
