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Ombudsman calls for solution to road use between Hungary and Austria
Since March 1, the road linking Ágfalva and Schattendorf (Somfalva) has been fully blocked for vehicles.
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FM: Hungary’s expelling of people smugglers is not directed against any country
Minister Szijjártó said he had talked to Alexander Schallenberg, his Austrian counterpart, who had indicated that Hungary’s expelling people smugglers was problematic for his country.
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Hungary and Austria to maintain strong cooperation in defense and other areas
Defense Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said Hungary and Austria are “good neighbors” and are in agreement about not sending weapons to Ukraine.
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President Novák: Europe needs open internal and secure external borders
Regarding migration, President Novák said Hungary was on the same page as Austria and that accepting and helping refugees was a humanitarian task.
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President Novák visits Vienna and kicks off county tour back home
The president announced that she would pay an official visit to each county in the next few years.
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PM Orbán: Restrictions could be much worse than we dare think
The prime minister said the first sign of a wartime situation would be when “they declare an energy emergency in Brussels; when access to some commodities must be restricted.”
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FM: Austria and Hungary are intensifying cooperation to contain illegal migration
The foreign minister said the European Union clearly faces security challenges on several fronts, adding that “coping with them one at a time would be complicated enough, let alone simultaneously.”
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PM Orbán: Hungary can count on Austria and vice versa
“In easy times, friendship is easy; when times are hard, friendship is harder,” the prime minister said.
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FM: Hungary’s southern border is under migrant siege
Péter Szijjártó said the Hungarian authorities have apprehended over 120,000 illegal migrants on the country’s southern border so far this year.
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House Speaker meets Austrian counterpart in Budapest
They discussed bilateral parliamentary ties, economic cooperation between the two countries, joint efforts to stem illegal migration, issues around demography, the energy crisis, and the future of the EU.
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FM: Hungary and Austria can count on one another
Minister Szijjártó noted that Austria is the second major trading partner of and the third major foreign investor in Hungary.
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House Speaker discusses immunity certificates during Austria talks
László Kövér asked his Austrian counterpart to help create the conditions for Austria and Hungary to sign an agreement on the mutual recognition of each other’s COVID immunity certificates.
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Hungary and Austria build bilateral cooperation against pandemic and border measures
During a meeting on the Austrian side of the border, Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the two countries were working together closely to tackle the pandemic.