Speaker of Parliament László Kövér met Wolfgang Sobotka, the president of the Austrian National Council, in Vienna on Tuesday, the parliament’s press office said.
The working lunch focused on the priorities of Hungary’s presidency of the European Council, economic and border protection cooperation, as well as stopping illegal migration, the statement said. Kövér and Sobotka also touched on support for the EU integration of Western Balkans states, the conflict in Gaza, anti-Semitism in Europe and the war in Ukraine.
Kövér and Sobotka welcomed an expanding cooperation between the two parliaments, through regular meetings of the heads of parliaments and cooperation between expert committees and friendship groups.
Sobotka and Kövér in Vienna. Photo: MTI
Kövér thanked Sobotka for Austria’s help in border protection, especially for deploying policemen to the Hungary-Serbia border, the statement said. At the same time, he said the European Commission’s decision to levy fines against Hungary over issues regarding migration policy were “unacceptable”.
Sobotka said Austria supported the priorities of the Hungarian presidency, especially those connected to “ushering the Western Balkans into the European Union” and to fighting illegal migration.
At the same time, Sobotka expressed concerns over what he called the Hungarian government’s “discriminative” interference into the food retail sector and the construction industry, and called for further talks on the matter. Kövér proposed to table the issue at the Austria-Hungary economic roundtable.
Sobotka and Kövér both praised their countries’ growing tourism, and Kövér said he hoped Austrian tourists’ interest in Hungary would grow even further.
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The Real Person!
The Real Person!
The (Political) “interference in the food retail sector and the construction industry”, is this the Socialist Marxist Left thing @mariavontheresa always warning us about??? We must fight!
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Austria has a bad track record. You may have a convenient memory Norbert, but Austria exported poorer quality food items to Hungary than those exported to western countries.
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Solidarity – the BELLS just ring louder DAILY, the DESTRUCTION caused by the Orban – the Fidesz Government.
“Right in there FACES” – behaviour like being meaner than a “Junk Yard Dog” – biting at there ankles, citizens actions in SOLIDARY orderly raising our numbers and VOICES.
Hungary – we have been FAILED.
RAISE our VOICES.
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Destruction is only caused by globalist. Think for a moment, the EU wants Serbia to mine lithium, lithium needs a lot of water and does cause a lot of pollution. Now, Germany also has lithium, but the Brussels does not suggest that Germany mine their own lithium and cause environmental damage in the EU.
Austria always has ulterior motives that makes Hungary the loser. Stop trusting foreigners and Hungarian citizens should support their own country rather than foreign Brussels dictatorship.
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@mariavontheresa – the Hungarian market is very sensitive to price. So. Why export the higher end stuff if the locals do not want to pay??? You appear to insinuate that commercial companies should sell at a loss, be price capped, make less margin if they choose to do business in Hungary. Not particularly libertarian or capitalist, rather back to the good old (socialist / Marxist) days?
The EU may have tipped billions upon billions of Euros into our economy to level us up with the rest of the Member States since we joined, however we are not there yet. We still have a long way to go (and much EU aid to receive, ask our Politicians – free money, so we cannot leave!).
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Why should Hungary, Serbia and other non-aligned nations should be taken advantage of the Brussels dictatorship. Yes, Austria shipped lower quality items to Hungary and charged the same price. Yes, the EU wants lithium mined in Serbia and not Germany. Brussels believes that people in smaller countries are utterly stupid. The sad fact is there is no fairness in the EU. The globalists that pull Brussels’ strings hate countries that do not yell Ya whol, and sacrifice the country and its population to their greed.
Hungary also paid billions and billions into keeping Brussels in clover. I always equate Brussels supporters to Elite Hungarians that betrayed Hungary under the Austro-Hungarian Empire,
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@mariavontheresa … as opposed to the “good old days” – in a capitalist system and within the European single market, we can source from anywhere in the EU and beyond. It is a choice. And “quality” is something you negotiate in the purchase contract, along with the price.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230112STO66302/30-years-of-eu-single-market-benefits-and-challenges-infographics
Lastly – I thought mining was great? Dig baby, dig! Beautiful coal! Lithium! Fracking! Move over, woke Elitist environmentalists! Or are we sensing second thoughts?