“I was able to visit 700 towns and villages—it wasn’t easy,” Péter Magyar told Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the members of Tusk's government seated with them during his visit to Poland. A video of the Hungarian Prime Minister shows that Tusk smiled and then said to his cabinet members seated nearby:“Did you write that down? 700 settlements, not five big cities, but 700 settlements!”The second stop for Péter Magyar and six ministers of his government on their visit to Poland was Warsaw. The Prime Minister began the day by laying a wreath, after which they went to the Polish Prime Minister’s residence, where members of the Polish government held talks with their Hungarian counterparts, while Péter Magyar held a one-on-one meeting with Donald Tusk.Following consultations and an informal breakfast, Magyar and Tusk held a joint press conference. The Hungarian Prime Minister remarked that it was no coincidence that he had chosen Poland for his first official visit as prime minister, noting that the heart of Europe beats in Central Europe today. He expressed hope that the V4 countries can hold a meeting in Budapest at the end of June. Tusk, for his part, said that Hungarian-Polish relations have traditionally been good, even if there was a brief interruption in this in recent years. In his view, Viktor Orbán being in power was not only a problem for Hungary but also caused a dramatic deterioration in Polish-Hungarian relations.Photos and videos posted on social media reveal that the Polish PM gave Péter Magyar a red-white-green heart-shaped pin, evoking the symbol of his coalition's 2023 campaign—the pink heart. “Here is the special Hungarian edition for you. You must have a heart and believe in your nation,” Donald Tusk told Magyar, according to the video he shared.“Note: Orbán and Sikorski at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski wrote next to a photo of himself with Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán. Sikorski’s comment was presumably also a reference to Viktor Orbán, whom he has sharply criticized on several occasions, once even saying that Orbán deserved the Order of Lenin. The Polish foreign minister wrote that he had started the day off right – "with a conversation about a shared European future and Polish-Hungarian cooperation with Anita Orbán." The Hungarian Foreign Minister, for her part, commented that she is “looking forward to our future discussions in order to strengthen Hungarian–Polish cooperation based on mutual respect, partnership, and our shared European future.”Minister of Transport and Investment Dávid Vitézy held talks with Dariusz Klimczak, the Polish Minister responsible for infrastructure. In commenting on their meeting, Vitézy wrotethat from now on, they will lobby together in Brussels to ensure that as much EU funding as possible goes toward developing the railways in Central and Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, István Kapitány, Minister of Economy and Energy, reported on having had constructive talks with Minister Andrzej Domański on opportunities for Hungarian-Polish economic cooperation.“It was an honor to hold bilateral talks with Poland’s Minister of Culture, Marta Cienkowska. During the meeting, we discussed the traditionally close Hungarian-Polish friendship and placed particular emphasis on strengthening cultural ties between the two nations in the future,” wrote Zoltán Tarr, Minister for Social Relations and Culture, in a statement about his meeting.For more quick, accurate and impartial news from and about Hungary, subscribe to the Telex English newsletter!