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EU accession of the Western Balkans important for security, migration and the economy
Levente Magyar said Hungary would find it unacceptable were Serbia and Montenegro not to become EU members by 2025.
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Commissioner Várhelyi on EU enlargement: We need to speed up accession for the Western Balkans
Speaking at the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg on Monday, Olivér Várhelyi, the European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, said that in order to maintain its credibility, the EU...
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PM Orbán: EU member states set to reach a deal on the bloc's next budget
Talks on EU enlargement were also on the agenda during PM Orbán’s meeting with the German Chancellor yesterday.
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PM Orbán: “It is in Austria's interest that the Hungarian border defense succeeds”
Austria is a natural partner of Hungary and the Visegrád Group, and all of them together can cooperate in crucial areas, including migration, security, border protection, competitiveness, climate protection and...
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Várhelyi encourages speedy EU accession talks with Balkans
European commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, Olivér Várhelyi has said the European Union must offer the Balkan countries a credible outlook for joining the bloc.
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V4 urge new European Commission to speed up englargement
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said one of the greatest failures of the previous European Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker was bringing the enlargement process to an almost complete standstill.
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FM: Hungary is committed to working in support of EU enlargement
The Foreign Minister said the EU’s continued enlargement and the integration of the Western Balkans are in Hungary’s strategic and economic interest.
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V4 presidents agree to support Serbia's accession to the EU
The presidents of the four Visegrad Group countries have agreed to support Serbia's accession to the EU and agree that European Union cohesion and farm funds should be maintained in the 2021-2027 budget cycle.
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PM Orbán on the new European Commission: The V4 countries have won vital portfolios
Two of the vice-presidents on the new European Commission will come from Slovakia and the Czech Republic, while the Polish commissioner will oversee Agriculture. “The whole region, with the V4 at the helm, is seeing an on-going increase in appreciation,” Prime Minister Orbán said in a radio interview this morning, before talking about enlargement, the European way of life, foreign policy goals and family policy.
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Hungary's FM: The European Union should speed up its enlargement process
Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the government believes that the only way for the EU to be successful in the long term is if it can look beyond its everyday issues and make sensible decisions on strategic matters
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Europe faces serious challenges as Brussels plans major spending cuts
Szabolcs Takács, the state secretary for European Affairs, said the issues of migration, economic development and EU enlargement will prove problematic, while the European Commission plans to cut funding for policies whose goals are defined in the bloc’s treaties
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Hungary’s FM: The EU should speed up Western Balkan enlargement process
Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the EU should open all the chapters of the Serbian and Montenegrin accession negotiations before the end of this year
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PM Orbán: Hungary is keen to speed up Serbia’s accession to the European Union
During his address to a Hungarian-Serbian business forum in Budapest over the weekend, the prime minister said the Balkan region must be integrated into the European Union