Hungary is committed to boosting European defence capabilities, Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said in Berlin late on Tuesday, after talks with German counterpart Boris Pistorius.
The EU “must become a credible defence player”, Szalay-Bobrovniczky said, according to a ministry statement. Hungary is committed to supporting those capabilities, he added.
The ministers discussed defence priorities of the coming six months, when Hungary will take over the EU’s rotating presidency. In times of war defence, security and boosting defence capabilities must be an important element of the presidency, he said.
Hungary sees strengthening European defence industry as a priority, Szalay-Bobrovniczky said. The government started military development in Hungary in 2016, a project the EU started championing just recently, he said.
At the same time, Hungary’s security “does not start at the country’s borders”, and so the presidency will prioritise the integration of the Western Balkans and boosting the Sahel “as a way to combat illegal migration and terrorism”, the minister said.
Let’s make Europe great again, the minister’s video published on Facebook kicks off:
Szalay-Bobrovniczky and Pistorius also discussed support for Ukraine. Szalay-Bobrovniczky said Hungary’s stance was unchanged, adding that only an immediate ceasefire and peace talks could bring an end to the war.
“Hungary’s pro-peace government was further strengthened at the June 9 elections, so it continues to reject [moves] threatening escalation, and we won’t contribute to NATO’s coordination mission with money, weapons or troops, and won’t support similar efforts by the EU either,” he said.
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Szalay-Bobrovniczky as Hungarian defence minister is completely incapable of publicly naming the greatest threat to European security – Russia. He’s a joke and as Daily News Hungary has reported he and his government is being excluded from NATO security discussions and information sharing because Hungary’s loyalty cannot be trusted.
Instead of talking nonsence he shuold get himself a brain
A whole lot more Europeans, especially in the West, will need to wake up for the continent to have even a fighting (and I use that word advisedly) chance of surviving and restoring at least some of its former glory. Far too many Europeans are seeing their nations destroyed before their very eyes but keep quiet because they have too much to lose by speaking up. If they wait until there’s nothing left to lose, there won’t be anything left to save either.
“Glory” is the buzzword of dictators, war mongers, and nationalist extremists.