Balázs Hankó, the minister of culture and innovation, said only "the forces representing normality can save Europe" from losing its core values and ensure that it preserves its competitiveness.

Before a press conference with former Polish education minister Przemyslaw Czarnek on Monday, Minister Hankó met members of the former Polish cabinet led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party in Warsaw, including former deputy prime minister Piotr Glinski and former family affairs minister Marlena Malag.

Minister Hankó told the press conference that "families are being persecuted in Brussels, and Europe's Christian values are being trampled underfoot", adding that those policies also harmed the bloc's competitiveness. While the Polish EU presidency is holding a European Council meeting in Warsaw on competitiveness, "they are failing to see that Europe is losing its core values".

The talks with Czarnek, Glinski and Malag also focused on those problems, and participants said that Europe needed to return to its fundamental values, Minister Hankó said. The protection of families, "rather than supporting migration", should be front and centre of that work, Hanko said.

They also agreed that cooperation between universities and research institutions should be shaped so "they stand up for real values and preserve our Christian cultural values", he said.

Minister Hankó said he and his Polish partners also stood up for the Waclaw Felczak Polish-Hungarian Institute for cooperation, "which is one of the cornerstones of the two countries' cooperation." "Hungary is ready to provide all support to its Polish friends," he added.

On the sidelines of the talks, a cooperation agreement was signed by the Central European Academy and the Nicolaus Copernicus Superior School, he said.