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Hungary’s task in its relationship with the United Kingdom is to establish new forms of cooperation with the country following its departure from the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after talks with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London on Friday.
Hungary and the UK had developed their relations during a period when they were both members of the EU, Orban told reporters in Downing Street, adding that that period was now over.
Orbán said his talks with Johnson had focused mainly on the future of Hungarian-UK relations,
while also covering opportunities for cooperation between Britain and the Visegrad Group countries. He highlighted the energy and defence industries as two “particularly promising” areas of cooperation “in the post-Brexit and post-Covid” era. Orbán noted that Hungary’s gas delivery agreement signed with Shell was the country’s first long-term energy deal that did not involve Russian energy suppliers.
He said the deal was also significant in terms of Hungary’s sovereignty.
Aked if he believed there was a chance that Hungary and the UK would lift quarantine restrictions for each other’s citizens given both countries’ high vaccination rates, Orban said the decision was up to the British government.
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Orbán said it was understandable that the UK government was being “highly cautious” when it came to lifting restrictions, given that it is an island country, which he said made things more difficult than in the cases of landlocked countries. He added that hopefully