Anikó Raisz emphasised the importance of simultaneously handling the goals of environmental protection, health, and the bloc's competitiveness when it comes to EU policymaking.
Even though Hungary is a landlocked country, water polo, swimming and kayaking have always been the flagships of Hungarian elite sports, said the prime minister.
The president laid a wreath at the "Death Wall", where thousands of people were executed by firing squad during the Second World War.
The Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union strives to create a competitive, crisis-resistant, sustainable, farmer-friendly and knowledge-based agricultural sector.
The prime minister will also hold bilateral talks with several leaders participating in the summit in Berlin on Monday.
The prime minister said adapting to global changes had made a new Hungarian economic policy necessary, adding that a new pact on that policy had to be made with Hungarians.
Hungary has imported 275 million cubic metres of gas from Turkey this year, and the two countries have now agreed to continue the partnership.
Interior Minister Sándor Pintér said the Schengen area is still under serious pressure from migration.
The prime minister vowed that Hungary would oppose "this plan by Brussels to delegate a government here".
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"A war and fighting is currently underway at the EU borders, which makes it all the more important to fulfil Schengen expectations," Pintér said.
Andras Laszlo, an MEP of ruling Fidesz, said that the rule of law report "has become a political weapon and its own parody" which served mostly "to show us the [European] Commission's political approach towards individual governments".
The prime minister wished the new party leader much strength and success for his "tough duties".
9 October 2024, Strasbourg
9 October 2024, Strasbourg