EU affairs minister: EU must guarantee peace for Europe 2024

The minister for European Union affairs said on Monday that the European Union must primarily guarantee peace and security for Europe, which was the purpose of the community’s founding fathers and which people in Europe also expect today.

János Bóka said in a video on Facebook that Hungary will hold the EU presidency during crises. Among the crises, he noted the war in Hungary’s neighbourhood, Europe’s declining competitiveness, increasing tensions in the EU’s trade relations, migration waves, “an upheaval” in European agriculture, and demographic challenges.

“A new European competitiveness pact is needed, a new approach to migration, stronger European security and defence policy, and immediate measures to ensure that European people and European farmers are again in the focus of the common agricultural policy,” he added.

Bóka said the Hungarian presidency would work towards these goals in the second half of the year.

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