Foreign Minister of Hungary Péter Szijjártó | Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images Hungarian minister: We prefer Trump to Obama, or Europe Foreign minister says Western European countries need to have ‘more understanding’ of their neighbors.

Hungary's relationship with the U.S. is in good shape, unlike that with many of its European neighbors, the Hungarian foreign minister said.

During a visit to Washington, Péter Szijjártó told POLITICO in an interview that "we have witnessed many reports before about Hungary by the European Parliament, and they all were very biased" and said Western European nations should have "more understanding" of their Central European partners.

"Some Western European countries would like to enter into a phase which can be described more with the description 'post-Christian,' 'post-national.' But we don't want that. ... You know, Europe's supposed to be a Christian continent."

Szijjártó refused to comment on Donald Trump's "shithole" comment, or say if the Hungarian government agreed with the U.S. president. But the foreign minister said he was thrilled with his meetings with officials from the Trump administration, singling out Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Wess Mitchell for particular praise.

On the Trump administration versus the Obama administration, Szijjártó said: "I had a lengthy, almost two-hour conversation with [Mitchell] ... and I have to tell you that if this had happened — if such kind of a meeting had happened — three years ago, then our political bilateral relationship would be in a totally different position than it is currently.

"Politically speaking, our relationship didn't work so far, because the former administration was, whenever we had any kind of meetings, they wanted to speak about the domestic issues of Hungary, and they didn't want to speak about the bilateral relationship."

When asked about a report by Democrats in the U.S. Senate into Russian President Vladimir Putin's attacks on democracy, which identified Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as one of Putin's biggest supporters in Europe, he said: "You know, I have taken part in all the meetings between the prime minister and the president of Russia in the last seven years, but those who wrote the report were not there, or I don't remember them being there.

"It's very easy to put allegations on us from here, from the other side of the ocean, but you have to understand that if there's a country of 10 million people located a couple hundred kilometers from Russia buying 85 percent of its gas from Russia because of lack of infrastructure for anything else, you need to have a dialogue with them. A dialogue, period. Nothing more. A dialogue."