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The Visegrad Four’s foreign ministers hold talks in Budapest
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Budapest, August 29 (MTI) – The Visegrad Four (V4) grouping of Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic is the tightest and most efficient alliance in Europe, Hungary’s foreign minister said on Monday.
The Visegrad Group is an alliance that is bold enough to “call a spade a spade” and speak frankly instead of being bound by the constraints of hypocritical and politically correct language, Péter Szijjártó told mission leaders at their yearly conference in Budapest.
The V4 is in the best state it can be in at just the right time, as the European Union is facing many serious challenges all at the same time, Szijjártó said.
He said that in these turbulent times, the positions of the V4 hold more weight together than they would if its members were representing those opinions on their own. So the V4 alliance has become relevant in the debate on the EU’s future, he added.
One of the secrets to the V4’s success is their member states’ respect for one another, Szijjártó said. The alliance has brought about “historic peace” in central Europe, the minister said, adding that the four countries have never had a greater stake in each other’s success than they do now.
Szijjártó urged mission leaders to push for establishing the tightest possible V4 alliance in the countries they are posted in and do all they can to make sure that all foreign trade records are broken again in 2016. The tight V4 alliances are the greatest guarantees for Hungary to meet its goals in the countries it has foreign missions in because if such alliances exist, Hungary’s interests do not oppose those of the other V4 member states, he said.
In the debate about the future of the EU, he said, Hungary’s ambassadors must represent the stance that security is the number one priority. The policy that encourages mass immigration should be ditched as the migrant crisis poses a threat and Hungary’s job is to protect itself, he said.
As the best answers to the challenges facing the EU have been given at member state level and not at an EU level, Hungary is against transfering more powers to Brussels, the minister said.
