Hungarian minister: “Serbia must join the EU”
Hungary has always supported the European Union’s enlargement and “now, as the president of the EU Council, it is again stating that after many years of waiting, Serbia must join the EU”, Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said in Belgrade on Wednesday, after meeting his Serbian counterpart.
Szalay-Bobrovniczky told a joint press conference with Bratislav Gašić that they had discussed the peace and security of the Western Balkans, and the war under way in the neighbourhood. Hungary’s position remains that an immediate ceasefire is needed, the only solution is through diplomacy, and peace talks should be started as soon as possible, he said.
He said that at a joint meeting of the Hungarian and Serbian governments last year, the respective defence ministries signed a strategic agreement, followed by concrete steps to bring the deal to fruition, as defence and security had always been important areas of cooperation between the two countries. He added that he and Gašić had discussed cooperation opportunities in defence, defence industry, and military, including military health. The frequent, high-level meetings between the two countries demonstrate that a golden age of Hungary-Serbia relations is under way, he said.
Szalay-Bobrovniczky told Hungary’s public media that Serbia and Hungary were strategic partners and Serbia’s stability was important for Hungary, “also in a military sense, the region should be reliable and calm”. The Western Balkans is the most arena of the Hungarian military force’s foreign presence, he said. “For years, we have been represented with significant force in NATO’s largest land mission dubbed KFOR, and also in EUFOR Althea, which is the pledge of EU and partly NATO presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It currently has a Hungarian commander,” he said.
Gašić also highlighted the importance of strategic cooperation between the two ministries.
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Of course the defence minister of Hungary who only in theory has loyalty to NATO and the EU would advocate for EU membership for a corrupt Russophile country that has a terrible human rights record. Ethnic Albanians in south Serbia are under continuous persecution and are deregisted from all public records as citizens if they so much as leave their homes on vacation. It is called “passivisation” and leaves them stateless. Serbia cannot join the EU as it presently exists and needs to change. It ranks worse on Transparency International’s corruption index than Hungary and Hungary ranks worst in the EU. Serbia also needs to make a comprehensive settlement with Kosovo and end its’ attacks on that country. Hungarian promotion of this kind of regime is a disgrace.
The European Union is taking steps …
https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-policy/growth-plan-western-balkans_en
Interesting how this somehow never makes it into our Politicians narratives? Let´s have another referendum, instead!