The diplomatic offensive of President of Poland Karol Nawrocki continues. After meetings with Donald Trump in Washington, Giorgia Meloni in Rome, and Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican, the head of state traveled to Lithuania and Finland. Visits to Germany and France are also planned. Hungary is being added to the list as well.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on social media on Thursday that his government “is beginning to rebuild Polish-Hungarian cooperation”, a signal he said came from President Karol Nawrocki. The day before, Hungarian Minister for European Union Affairs Janos Boka concluded his visit to Poland, during which he met at the Economic Forum in Karpacz with, among others, presidential advisor Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.
Presidential spokesman Rafał Leśkiewicz said in Studio PAP that a meeting between the Polish president and the Hungarian prime minister is planned, just like “many other meetings”.
“Let us wait for the meeting, which will likely take place in the near future. I cannot say when yet, as there are no firm arrangements between President Karol Nawrocki and Viktor Orban,” he said.
The spokesman emphasized that “Polish-Hungarian relations are extremely important to us”. He added that at this point it is difficult to say more about the meeting itself or “the arrangements that are to follow”.
Leśkiewicz was also asked about the presence on Wednesday of Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto at the parade in Beijing, where he stood in a group that included Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and whether, in his view, this was good company.
“In my opinion, it is certainly not good company. (…) This is internal policy conducted by the Hungarian government. I will not comment on how that policy is pursued – it is not an issue that directly concerns Poland or Poles. What is certain is that President Karol Nawrocki would never stand in the same rank as the leader of the Russian Federation, the criminal Vladimir Putin, especially since Putin is pursuing President Karol Nawrocki for dismantling Soviet propaganda monuments (in Poland),” the presidential spokesman responded.