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If we cannot convert our transport to electric, “then the fight against climate change is over”, said Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó on the issue of battery factories.
There is a huge competition for investments in the battery industry all over the world, including Europe, and Hungary’s position is particularly strong in this competition, Péter Kaderják, former State Secretary for Energy and President of the Hungarian Battery Association, told Mandiner. In response to environmental concerns, he stressed that neither the CATL battery factory in Debrecen, which is being built in China, nor similar developments will endanger the Hungarian water base.
On the same subject, Minister Péter Szijjártó said in response to questions from ATV that the government would only allow investments to be brought to Hungary that comply with the strictest environmental protection standards.
He also added that
Hungary applies much stricter environmental standards than Europe.
Anyone who does not accept this cannot come, he added. Szijjártó also stressed that he understood people’s legitimate concerns about the safety of their homes, “but it must be explained to everyone clearly that there is no harmful, negative, environmentally damaging impact of these investments, quite the contrary,” he said, adding: if we can’t electrify our transport, “the fight against climate change will be over”.
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