Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó discussed joint efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic and international and regional issues during a visit to Israel on Monday. Budapest has in recent years been a staunch supporter of Israel in the European Union, blocking efforts to issues statements critical of Israeli policies. KAN's Naomi Segal asked Dr. Toby Greene, a Marie Skoldowska-Curie Research Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, who has written about Israel-Europe relations for the Mitvim Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, why the visit was happening now, and what it was expected to address. 

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