Foreign minister says Eastern Partnership important in post-pandemic world
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Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó on Thursday said the Eastern Partnership was important to the European Union in the post-pandemic world.
Szijjártó said that in the post-pandemic world, nothing would stay the same as before, and this applied equally to politics and economics.
In a video posted on Facebook after a videoconference of EU foreign ministers and their counterparts representing the six partnership countries on Thursday, the minister said the EU would have to withstand increased competition, and its success in this regard would be in Hungary’s interest.
But in order to achieve this the EU needs third countries as partners as allies, and so far the EU has only paid lip service to the importance of the Eastern Partnership, Szijjártó said.
Today, however, four concrete proposals were made, he said.
Funding pledged to Moldova should be finally paid.