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The Fidesz president of the National Assembly spoke with his Austrian counterpart about the epidemiological situation.
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László Kövér, Speaker of Parliament and his colleague, Wolfgang Sobotka, briefed each other on the epidemiological situation in Hungary and Austria in a video discussion, Zoltán Szilágyi, Speaker of Parliament, told MTI.
According to the announcement, the hour-long consultation started by the president of the Austrian National Council focused on the current restrictive measures, the economic management of the consequences of the epidemic, the state of the budgets of Hungary and Austria this year and next. , vaccine expectations and disease management in the next period. planned steps.
Wolfgang Sobotka said that in Austria current austerity measures are being relaxed, which will be carried out step by step until the Christmas holidays.
László Kövér informed his colleague that, given the current situation in Hungary, no further adjustment is expected until the holidays.
rather, the measures taken by the Hungarian government aim at strict compliance with the restrictive measures already taken.
In the second part of the conversation, the parties discussed the impact of political Islam on European Christian civilization, as well as issues of asylum and migration.
The Presidents of Parliament also discussed the background to Hungary’s veto on the next multi-annual financial framework of the European Union and the Recovery Fund. László Kövér emphasized that the July European Council had established a framework for negotiations that could not be canceled by either the European Commission or the European Parliament, because the compromise had been reached by the Heads of State and Government and no institution of the EU agreed by European sovereign states. it cannot go further.
Finally, the speakers also spoke briefly on the issue of enlargement in the Western Balkans, in which they expressed a common position of support.
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