Full agreement with leaders of Baden-Württemberg on protection of external borders, says Hungarian FM

“There is full agreement between the Hungarian Government and the leaders of one of the most significant German states, Baden-Württemberg, with regard to the protection of the European Union’s external borders and maintaining the Schengen Area”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday following negotiations in Stuttgart.

Assessing his political talks in the state capital, Mr, Szijjártó said: There is agreement between the Hungarian Government and the leaders of Baden-Württemberg with relation to the fact that the European Union’s external borders must be “strictly protected”, and that maintaining the Schengen Area with no internal border controls and enforcing the Schengen regulations is “in the fundamental interests of all of Europe”.

In a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI, the Foreign Minister pointed out that in addition to extremely close economic relations, education cooperation is also very strong in view of the fact that the government of Baden-Württemberg is one of the founders of the Andrássy Gyula German Language University of Budapest, adding that during his visit to Stuttgart an agreement was also concluded on the fact that Hungary and Baden-Württemberg will also be cooperating more closely in future within the field of dual vocational education.