Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated today before the European Parliament in Strasbourg that it is not possible to achieve stabilization of The Balkans, if Serbia is not accepted into the EU, TANYUG reported, BTA reported.
When presenting the Hungarian EU Presidency agenda, he said he agreed that EU enlargement should be based on merit and that he was convinced that the Western Balkans and accelerating their integration were the key to security in the European Union. union. He emphasized that the Balkans will continue to be an unstable region as long as Serbia is not part of the Union.
„Several candidate countries have already fulfilled the conditions, but there is a lack of consensus among EU members. We made a promise to the countries of the Western Balkans and presented them with a European perspective. It's time to fulfill our promise. What we can do is convene a summit for the Western Balkans where we want to make progress, Orban said in his address to the European Parliament.
The Hungarian Prime Minister also indicated that the European Union must change and that the Hungarian EU presidency aims to be a “voice and catalyst of change”.
„The most important thing is that the EU must change. The Hungarian Presidency wants to be the voice of change and its catalyst. Decisions should be made by EU member states and their institutions, not by the Hungarian presidency," Orbán said, quoted by TANYUG.
In his words, Hungary's job is to point out the problems and present proposals in the interest of peace, security and prosperity of the EU. In his address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Orbán said that competitiveness is the most important element of change.
„The goal of the Hungarian Presidency is to adopt a new European Competitiveness Agreement, a new Competitiveness Pact at the informal meeting of the European Council in Budapest on November 8. I am convinced that the political commitment at the highest level will provide the impetus for the turnaround in European competitiveness that we need, I recommend that we put this at the center of the action plan for the coming institutional cycle, Orbán said.
Hungarian Prime Minister expressed his support for Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump and announced that he would open “several bottles of champagne” if the former US president returns to the White House next month.
Orbán's words come on the eve of the EU leaders' visit to Budapest, and thus the Hungarian Prime Minister emphasized that his position differs from the positions of the European leaders, reported today “Guardian”. The publication recalls that the Hungarian Prime Minister will receive EU leaders at a summit in Budapest a few days after the US presidential elections, which will be held on November 5.
„If you had not read the reports funded by Soros, but other independent data, you would have seen that Hungary is not doing worse than others in terms of corruption,” Orbán said, answering questions from MEPs in Strasbourg during a session of the European Parliament, where he presented the Hungarian program for the European Presidency.