Magyar, who took office on May 9 after his Tisza party defeated Viktor Orbán's ruling bloc in last month's parliamentary elections, visited Poland on his first foreign trip as prime minister.
His visit to Poland has included stops in the southern city of Kraków, the capital Warsaw and the Baltic port city of Gdańsk.
The two leaders arrived in Gdańsk on Wednesday afternoon and laid flowers at a memorial to the late city mayor Paweł Adamowicz, who was fatally stabbed in 2019.
Crowds gathered in the city’s historic centre to greet the leaders as they walked along the Royal Route, with some people waving Polish and Hungarian flags, Poland's PAP news agency reported.
Tusk and Magyar later met with former Polish President Lech Wałęsa at the Uphagen House museum before continuing to the Artus Court landmark.
Speaking publicly, Tusk linked Gdańsk’s role in Europe’s democratic history with recent political developments in Hungary.
"Everything good in Europe began in Gdańsk," Tusk said, referring to the birthplace of the Solidarity movement that helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe.
"Everything good in Europe recently began anew in Budapest," he added.
'European spring has started again'
He praised Magyar’s election campaign, saying the Hungarian leader had fought for “a Hungary free from corruption, free from rot, and a Hungary that, thanks to him, is returning to Europe."
Tusk also said that Magyar’s visit to Gdańsk, the cradle of Solidarity, was "an important signal" that "a European spring has started again."
Magyar promised to "do everything to strengthen the friendship" between the two nations.
The Hungarian prime minister also referred to the long-standing ties between Poland and Hungary and highlighted Gdańsk’s symbolic place in European history, both as the site where World War II began and as a centre of anti-communist resistance.
During the visit, Gdańsk Mayor Aleksandra Dulkiewicz presented Magyar with a framed Solidarity logo signed by its creator, Jerzy Janiszewski.
Earlier on Wednesday, Magyar met with President Karol Nawrocki and held talks with Tusk in Warsaw focused on regional cooperation, energy security and Ukraine.
Magyar is scheduled to leave Poland on Thursday, travelling to Vienna before returning to Budapest by train.
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Source: IAR, PAP