House Speaker László Kövér held talks with Wolfgang Sobotka, the president of the Austrian National Council, in Vienna.
According to MTI, the working lunch on Tuesday focused on the priorities of Hungary’s EU presidency, economic and border protection cooperation, as well as stopping illegal migration. Kövér and Sobotka also touched on support for the EU integration of Western Balkans states, the conflict in Gaza, anti-Semitism in Europe and the war in Ukraine. They welcomed expanding cooperation between the two parliaments through regular meetings of the heads of parliaments and cooperation between expert committees and friendship groups. Kövér thanked Sobotka for Austria’s help in border protection, especially for deploying policemen to the Hungary-Serbia border. At the same time, he said the European Commission’s decision to levy fines against Hungary over issues regarding migration policy was “unacceptable”. Sobotka said Austria supported the priorities of the Hungarian presidency, especially those connected to “ushering the Western Balkans into the European Union” and fighting illegal migration.