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Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary ยท 19/02/2022
ยท Politics

Senior V4 and French lawmakers discuss security policy in Budapest

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Parliamentary foreign affairs committee leaders of the four Visegrรกd countries held a two-day meeting with their French partners in Budapest and discussed security policy challenges in the east and the south, Zsolt Nรฉmeth, the head of the Hungarian committee, said.

The meeting was attended by respective officials of both houses of the French parliament and the Visegrรกd Four (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia).

The participants focussed on major foreign policy issues in and outside Europe, Nรฉmeth told a press conference, adding that the Hungary planned to invite the foreign affairs committee leaders of the Baltic states and Britain to similar meetings to be held under its current V4 presidency.

Nรฉmeth welcomed that the Visegrรกd countries and France held identical views on several issues, including the need of security.

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Although the security of Europe, including Hungary, is primarily guaranteed by NATO, “there are plenty of common European security interests which can be promoted more effectively if there is a European security and defence policy in place,” Nรฉmeth said. He added that Hungary would “do its part” and raise the ratio of defence expenditure to 2 percent of GDP by 2024.

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Photo: MTI/Szigetvรกry Zsolt

As the use of nuclear energy is crucial for Europe’s energy security and future, both the V4 countries and France advocate that nuclear energy should be declared a renewable, clean source of energy, he said.

The participants agreed to cooperate in boosting economic competitiveness, digitalisation and transition to green economy. They identified space research, an area with growing security policy importance, as a prospective field of cooperation, Nรฉmeth said.

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Concerning the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the foreign affairs committee leaders agreed on the need of resolute action to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and “within the framework of NATO a more marked representation of a policy of deterrence”, he said.

Nevertheless, maintaining dialogue is another priority, Nรฉmeth said, referring to the recent visits to Moscow of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Another security policy issue discussed at the meeting in Budapest was the withdrawal of the Takuba mission from Mali, Nรฉmeth said, expressing regret over the discontinuation of what he called a key mission in the Sahel region.

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Source: MTI

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  1. Edward says:
    20/02/2022 at 15:50

    Don’t trust the French!

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