Hungary happy with Kurz victory in Austria
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto congratulated Austria's Sebastian Kurz for winning parliamentary elections, welcoming his stance on migration as close to that of Budapest and calling him a personal friend.
Austria shifted to the right in the Sunday vote, giving the far-right Freedom Party a mandate to enter coalition talks with the young conservative victor.
"We are happy that a sister party of ours won the elections ... and we are happy that their candidate has won who in many cases represented similar positions regarding migration to the Hungarian government," Szijjarto said on arriving for talks between European Union foreign ministers, which Kurz would normally attend.
Szijjarto said he expected the anti-immigration eastern EU states - Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - to work more closely with Austria now.
