Peter Szijjarto (Betaphoto/Milos Miskov)
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said during his visit to Slovenia that both countries are in favor of the EU’s enlargement that should include the Western Balkans countries, the Hina news agency reported on June 3.
On June 2 Szijjarto was on a visit to Slovenia, to which Hungary lent 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in order to speed up the vaccination against Covid-19, and where he met with Prime Minister Janez Jansa and Foreign Minister Anze Logar.
“We are very much in favor of enlargement, we feel that after Brexit the EU needs a success story and new members, and this would not warrant much work. If we look at Serbia and Montenegro, we can see that both have done much to join the Union, and [that] their accession would be beneficial for both sides,” Szijjarto told the Slovenian TV, adding that such a move would diminish the tensions in the region burdened by unresolved issues.
But some countries – according to him, France and Holland – are not in favor of enlargement, and thus other EU member-states which are for the Balkan states’ integration do not have a majority for realizing that goal.
On June 3 Szijjarto will be on a visit to Belgrade, where he will meet with Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic.
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