Peter Magyar In Warsaw Spoke In Favor Of Strengthening The Role Of The Visegrad Group

• 20.05.2026, 21:14

The Hungarian prime minister also looks forward to closer cooperation with Scandinavian countries.

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar is on a two-day visit to Poland. Yesterday he arrived in Krakow, where, among other things, he laid flowers at the monument to Polish Pope John Paul II.

The Hungarian prime minister met already in Warsaw with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, after which, at a joint press conference, he said that Poland is a good example for his country and government of how to return the state to the European mainstream, reports

The Hungarian Prime Minister wants to involve other countries of the region - from Austria and the Balkans to Romania - in Central European cooperation. Peter Magyar also looks forward to closer cooperation with Scandinavian countries.

After a joint walk with the Hungarian leader through the streets of the city, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk noted the exceptional significance of the change of power in Budapest.

"Your victory and your visit here, in the place where Solidarity was born, is a very important sign for people all over Europe and all over the world that the European spring - reborn. It has started again, as the Spring of Nations once did, Budapest, Warsaw, Gdansk... And today we all deeply believe that thanks to people like you, the spring in Europe will never end," the Polish prime minister said.

The prime ministers of Poland and Hungary met with former president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa in Gdansk.

Earlier in Warsaw, Peter Magyar met Polish President Karol Nawrocki and Speakers of the Sejm and Senate Wlodzimierz Czarzasty and Malgorzata Kidawa-Blońska.

This is Peter Magyar's first official foreign visit since taking office as Hungary's prime minister.