“Financial cooperation is the secure basis of our relationships,” stated Prime Minister Viktor Orbán following his talks with the German Chancellor on Friday in Berlin. Politically, relations with Olaf Scholz stay frosty, who as soon as once more didn’t grant his visitor an honorary ceremony.
Viktor Orbán then spoke to Hungarian state media regarding two major subjects of the dialogue: what ought to occur subsequent with the EU and what’s the state of bilateral relations? The German-Hungarian commerce quantity reached a brand new report in 2023 with greater than 70 billion euros, and 1 / 4 of all Hungarian exports go to Germany. A big proportion of the as much as 300,000 jobs that German firms safe in Hungary are tied to the automotive trade.
Hungary needs to take part within the “generational and technological change” that the German automotive trade is at the moment going by means of, the Prime Minister assured his host. That is dictated by the nation’s particular place, which, aside from China, is the one international location on the earth the place all three German premium producers have settled. Hungary kinds the spine of German trade and hopes to realize jobs, financial development and tax revenues in return.
Orbán: EU should be match for world competitors
Orbán additionally spoke to Scholz in favor of accelerating the EU’s competitiveness on a world scale. As a part of the Hungarian Council Presidency, they need to current an motion plan that’s already being mentioned intensively with all EU member states. “Europe should not isolate itself, should not react to adjustments on the earth based mostly on the logic of worry,” the Prime Minister defined. As a substitute, financial relations should be expanded and the EU should be match for world competitors.
Orbán defined that he had assured the Chancellor that the conflicts with Manfred Weber weren’t German-Hungarian conflicts, however tensions between Brussels and Budapest. “Weber hates the Hungarians, whom he blames for the truth that he was as soon as unable to grow to be President of the European Fee,” the Prime Minister instructed state media.
Szijjártó: Keine neue Blockbildung!
“Hungary stays prepared to make sure clean cooperation between German automotive producers and their suppliers from the East.” This was acknowledged by Overseas Commerce Minister Péter Szijjártó (Mr), who met in Berlin with the Managing Director of the Affiliation of the Automotive Trade (VDA), Andreas Rade (Ml), and Thomas Schwarz, political consultant of Audi AG in Berlin, negotiated.
The minister referred to the billions of euros that German vehicle producers are investing in R&D tasks so as to grasp the technological transition to the age of electromobility. It’s clear that this transition can solely succeed if world commerce stays freed from restrictions.
“Sadly, the EU Fee’s proposal to introduce punitive tariffs on Chinese language electrical automobiles is directed towards this freedom and towards competitors,” complained Szijjártó. The protecting tariffs will trigger extra injury than they will profit the European economic system.
Hungary subsequently needs to make use of its upcoming Council Presidency to behave towards the brand new bloc formation being pushed by Brussels. With its German vehicle factories, which cooperate completely with system suppliers from China and South Korea, Hungary is the most effective instance that the EU Fee’s issues are unfounded.
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