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Alexandra Béni Alexandra Béni · 26/09/2018
· Politics

Hungarian foreign minister urges ‘deep, comprehensive’ EU-UK post-Brexit agreement

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New York, 2018. szeptember 26. A Külgazdasági és Külügyminisztérium (KKM) által közreadott képen Szijjártó Péter külgazdasági és külügyminiszter (j) és Jeremy Hunt brit külügyminiszter kétoldalú találkozója az ENSZ-közgyûlés 73. ülésszakán New Yorkban 2018. szeptember 25-én. MTI Fotó: KKM / Mitko Sztojcsev

Hungary is interested in seeing the “deepest and most comprehensive possible” free trade agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom after the latter country leaves the bloc, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at a meeting with his British counterpart in New York late on Tuesday.

At the meeting held on the sidelines of the United Nations’ General Assembly, Szijjártó told Jeremy Hunt that an agreement should be sought to minimise the economic damage caused by Brexit.

Szijjártó noted Hungary’s open economy, adding that free trade with its top partners was crucial.

He gave warning that a lack of agreement in the Brexit talks could make investment and trade cooperation between EU member states and Britain “extremely cumbersome” and these could be reduced to a fragment. WTO rules would govern ties, burdened with tariffs and “other hindrances”, he said.

The minister also said that “Europe has never before faced such a serious threat of terrorism”, adding that the UK’s contribution to ensuring security was crucial, especially in terms of Britain’s intelligence and defence systems. He said the UK should continue participating in European missions, “otherwise a large part of those missions will be shut down”.

Szijjártó said that “the childish attitude of taking revenge on Britons to show them what a bad decision they have taken with Brexit” should be dropped, and the EU and the UK should “set up the closest possible security cooperation”.

Szijjártó is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly on Friday.

For that matter, according to opposition LMP, the Hungarian government should initiate talks with the British government “without delay” with a view to protecting the interests of Hungarians living in the United Kingdom.

Péter Ungár said the European Union and the UK were unlikely to reach a cooperation agreement post-Brexit, and he urged the Hungarian government to form a strategy

“to protect the rights of hundreds of thousands of Hungarians working or studying in the UK”.

Among the open questions Ungár mentioned were whether Hungarian students would continue to receive the same scholarships as locals and whether rules would apply to employees who have worked less than five years in the UK at the time Britain exits the EU.

Featured image: MTI/KKM

Source: MTI

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