Budapest-Yerevan direct flight will be launched?
The President of Armenia, Vahagn Khachaturyan, said in his official visit to Budapest that his country would welcome Hungarian tourists and find a Budapest-Yerevan direct flight favourable.
rime Minister Viktor Orbán met Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan in his office in Budapest on Wednesday, and pledged to further strengthen diplomatic ties between the countries, the PM’s press chief said.
Orbán said the relations between Hungary and Armenia were strong and based on mutual respect, Bertalan Havasi said.
“Hungarians value Armenia’s cultural and Christian traditions. It is time we stepped up diplomatic relations too,” Orbán said.
At the talks, Orbán an Khachaturyan said economic cooperation was expected to develop apace in the coming period, especially in the areas of energy and tourism.
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Agriculture minister discusses Ukrainian grain influx, farmers’ protests with Slovak counterpart
Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy on Tuesday met his recently appointed Slovak counterpart, Richard Takac, to discuss the difficulties caused by the inflow of Ukrainian grain into European markets, the farmers’ protests in Europe, trade and animal health, the ministry said on Tuesday.
Nagy called for closer cooperation as a key to better representation of shared interests.
Even amid a “wholly new set of requirements” brought by the new Strategic Plans of the Common Agricultural Policy, Hungary managed to pre-finance 70 percent of the EU funding for 136,000 farmers, he said.
To protect Hungarian farmers, the government will maintain the ban on Ukrainian grain it announced on its own authority last year, “in view of the lack of EU action”, he said.
Nagy said Hungarian farmers would join the protesters in Brussels, demonstrating against EU agricultural policies. “Hungary would like as many member states as possible to support its fight in Brussels against the threat posed by Ukrainian agriculture.”
Ukraine’s EU accession would bring lasting difficulties for Hungarian producers “as Hungarian farmers working amid the limits of EU regulations can’t compete with [giant] Ukrainian farms which are in the hands of global capital and must abide by much laxer rules”, he said.
Nagy said Hungary’s upcoming EU presidency would head the negotiations on CAP regulations after 2027, adding that Hungary would focus on crisis management during the talks. Reducing food waste and preserving the EU’s “food sovereignty” will also be high on the agenda, he said. “We will insist that food arriving from third countries must fulfil the same requirements as EU produce,” he said.