In Stockholm, Hungarian governing party delegation didn't bring up lies Orbán talked about

Based on statements by their Swedish counterparts, the "fact-finding delegation" of the Hungarian governing parties' politicians did not raise the issue they had set out to address: namely, that while Sweden (along with fellow NATO candidate Finland) "is asking for help" from Hungary regarding its accession to NATO, they "unscrupulously spread blatant lies" about Hungary, such as the lack of democracy and the rule of law in the country.

Aron Emilsson, chairman of the Swedish parliament's foreign affairs committee, who met with the four-member Hungarian delegation led by former defense minister Csaba Hende and foreign affairs committee chairman Zsolt Németh, said about his meeting that "no conditions were imposed" on the ratification of Sweden's NATO membership:

We talked about the need to strengthen and develop bilateral relations and to better understand each other's constitutional traditions.

Tobias Billström, who also met with the parliamentary delegation, said "we believe that ratification will take place soon" and that the target date of the end of March seemed to be feasible. The Swedish reports are in line with the statements made by Hungarian politicians regarding the visit.

On Wednesday, the Hungarians will continue their "dispute-resolving" trip in Helsinki, where they will hold talks with the Finnish Parliamentary Speaker Matti Vanhanen, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and members of parliament.

The visits were announced in early March by Máté Kocsis after a Fidesz parliamentary group meeting in Balatonfüred, with the aim of "clarifying issues that have led some party members to have misgivings about Swedish and Finnish membership of NATO". According to the adopted new parliamentary schedule, the Hungarian Parliament may decide on the expansion on 20 March. The government has been delaying the parliament's ratification of the Swedish-Finnish accession to NATO for more than half a year now, citing various reasons. Apart from Hungary, Turkey is the only other country to delay the ratification.