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Political stability, independent foreign policy, and energy are key to Hungary’s success in fighting the current crisis, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at an event.
Despite the major international crisis and recessionary environment in Europe, Hungary is able to remain successful, Péter Szijjártó, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said at the Transit Public Life Season Opening and Thought Expo political conference in Tihany, by Lake Balaton on Saturday.
In his presentation, Szijjártó recalled that Hungary has had a “track record of twelve years of successful government strategy and policies.” The country managed to enforce its national interests, thereby increasing its space for maneuvering. According to him, Hungary can be a local exception in a global crisis.
The Foreign Minister highlighted six dangers in connection with the war in Ukraine: the threat to physical security, economic threat, energy supply problems, the threat of global supply shortages that can increase migration, wrong European and global answers to the war, and political blackmail.
According to Szijjártó, Hungary will remain successful because “we are world champions in economic crisis management, we have and will have energy that can be used to run the country and the economy normally, we have our own foreign policy, which is nationally driven and not dictated from power centers, and the government has political stability and therefore political courage.”
Featured photo via Facebook/Szijjártó Péter