Embassy of Hungary Bucharest

DEAR VISITOR, WELCOME TO THE WEBSITE OF THE EMBASSY OF HUNGARY IN BUCHAREST.

The aim of the website is to assist our readers to follow the latest developments in the Hungarian-Romanian relations, to provide information about different programs organized by the Embassy, and also practical information about consular issues that most directly concern our citizens.

For Hungary it is of great importance to have good relations with its neighboring countries, therefore we strive to accomplish common projects with Romania helping to develop and enrich our co-operation on the bilateral level. I do consider the connection of our countries’ transport, telecommunication and energy network of crucial importance. The fact that both countries are full members of NATO and the European Union creates favorable conditions and background for the development of our relations.

The economic possibilities and advantages that are based on the geographical proximity make Romania as one of the most important commercial partners of our country. The most striking example of it is the fact, that our Eastern neighbor is the second/third largest export market for Hungary for quite some time now. According to the official statistical data of 2015, there were more than 12 thousand companies with Hungarian capital share present on the Romanian market.

In the Hungarian-Romanian relations we attach utmost importance to the national policy of the Government of Hungary aiming to preserve and enrich the spiritual, material and cultural identity of the aproximately 1.5 million Hungarians living in Romania. By the means of simplified naturalisation procedure as of 2013 there were many to obtain the Hungarian citizenship. This task continues to be a happy one for us, as the Hungarian community living in Romania is still enthusiastic about this possibility.

I do hope that with the help of our website, apart from providing information about Hungary, we can contribute to the strengthening of the ties between our countries.

Botond Zákonyi
Ambassador

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On 8 November 2023, Mr. Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary paid a working visit to Bucharest

On 8 November 2023, Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary paid a working visit to Bucharest in order to participate in the ministerial panel of the 6th Edition of the Romanian International Gas Conference (RIGC-2023) and to hold bilateral talks with Sebastian-Ioan Burduja, Minister of Energy, Sorin Mihai Grindeanu, MIjnister of Transport and Infrastructure and Ștefan-Radu Oprea, Minister of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism, as well as with Hunor Kelemen, President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ).

On September 6, 2023, H.E. Katalin Novák, President of Hungary attended the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) summit in Bucharest prior to which she had a face-to-face meeting with RMDSZ president Kelemen Hunor

On September 6, 2023, the President of the Republic Katalin Novák attended the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) Summit in Bucharest, where she stated that economic cooperation in the region is important even in the shadow of the war in Ukraine, and she welcomed the joint declaration of then Summit and its wording regarding Ukraine.

Hungary and Romania have signed an agreement on the establishment of two new border crossings between Kübekháza and Óbéba (Beba Veche) and Magyarcsanád and Csanád (Cenad), announced Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó after his meeting

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, Péter Szijjártó held bilateral talks with Romanian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Sorin Grindeanu on September 1, 2023 in Timișoara. After the meeting, the two ministers signed agreements on the establishment of two new border crossings.

Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 32nd Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp. 22 July 2023, Tusnádfürdő [Băile Tuşnad]

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Summer Camp. We have arrived here after advancing through the Romanian troops. But we would prefer to see them as a welcoming committee, and we have good reason for that: in our European struggle for Christianity, we weakened Latin Christians will also need Romanian Orthodoxy. So we welcome interested Romanians who are in the audience.

Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary had talks with the Prime Minister of Romania

On 19 July 2023, Ion-Marcel Ciolacu, Prime Minister of Romania received Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary for a private lunch in Bucharest.

On 9 May 2023, Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary paid an official visit to Oradea/Nagyvárad

On 9 May 2023, Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary paid an official visit to Oradea/Nagyvárad, where together with Attila Cseke, Minister of Development, Public Works and Administration of Romania, he participated in the opening of the next seven-year cycle of the Interreg program supporting cross-border cooperation

Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary paid a visit to Bucharest on 4th April 2023.

On April 4, 2023, Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary paid a visit to Bucharest, where he held a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Hunor Kelemen, President of UDMR/RMDSZ/, Deputy Prime Minister Sorin Mihai Grindeanu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure and Minister of Energy Virgil-Daniel Popescu.

On November 29-30, 2022, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó took part in the Meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest

On November 29-30, 2022, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó took part in the Meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest. The agenda of the NATO meeting also included the global effects of the war in Ukraine, the economic recession, the growing threat of terrorism and the energy supply crisis. With regard to the meeting, Minister Péter Szijjártó stated:

Official visit of President Katalin Novák to Bucharest

On the 7th of September 2022, Katalin Novák, President of Hungary paid a one-day-long official visit to Bucharest on the invitation of Klaus Iohannis, President of Romania. The President of Romania invited his Hungarian counterpart following the B9 Summit in Bucharest on 10th June this year. Prior to that, the last presidential visit to Bucharest took place in 2010 while the Romanian President paid a visit to Budapest for the last time in 2009.

Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp 23 July 2022, Tusnádfürdő [Băile Tuşnad]

Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen. I am very happy to see you. Zsolt Németh asked me to come here this morning with the warning that I should speak for exactly half as long as I want to. In Hungarian, the word “half” is a good one. The Pope was once asked how many people work in the Vatican; his reply was “Half of them!” Well, I will try to be clear and concise in what I have to say. It will not be easy to listen to this all the way through, because I have a lot to say, and I can see that it will be hot; but a healthy lamb can live with its coat of wool. And after all, the last time we met was in 2019, so three years ago. It is good to be free again, to be able to sit out on a terrace with friends and drink a fröccs [spritzer]. We have every reason to drink a Fidesz fröccs: two-thirds to one-third. This also shows that some things are eternal.

Katalin Novák, President of the Republic of Hungary paid a visit to Romania between the 19th and 22nd of May 2022.

During her stay in Transylvania, the President met with Hunor Kelemen, Deputy Prime Minister of Romania, the President of UDMR in Cluj-Napoca, then attended the consecration ceremony of the renovated reformed church of Lopadea Noua in Alba county where she also participated at the common dedication service of ten churches renovated from Hungarian governmental support in Ciumbrud, Lunca Muresului, Alba Iulia, Vintul de Jos, Santimbru, Orastie, Chimindia, Geoagiu, Ighiu, Cricau. In Aiud, the President together with Béla Kató, Bishop of the Transylvanian Reformed Church Diocese unveiled the memorial plaque of the bishop’s house and visited the Gabriel Bethlen College.

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