PM Orbán: Hungary backs swift EU membership for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hungary supports swift European Union membership for the Balkan countries and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Sarajevo on Thursday, adding that the EU needed the Balkans more than vice versa.

The war in Ukraine increases the importance of the role of the Balkans, Orbán said after talks with Borjana Kristo, chairwoman of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers, arguing that the region was Europe’s last major energy reserve. The EU needs all the dynamism it can get because it is losing its competitiveness, which must be reversed, he added.

Orbán and Kristo were in agreement that cooperation between their countries was good. Orbán reaffirmed that the Hungarian government invited Sarajevo to propose economic sectors that would welcome Hungarian investment.

Source: MTI