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Csepreghy urges new EU approach to global challenges
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Budapest, March 9 (MTI) – The European Union must adopt a new approach to global challenges, Nándor Csepreghy, the state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office, said at an international conference in Budapest on Wednesday.
Europe’s strength in the world after the economic and financial crisis depends on seeking unorthodox solutions to its challenges, he said at the think.BDPST conference on research, development and innovation in the central and eastern European region.
He said European cohesion would be seen in a completely different way in the future, since it would not be about what kind of catch-up support central and eastern European countries would receive from the western EU nations, but rather how “innovatively we can organise our own lives”.
Addressing the conference, former Bavarian prime minister Edmund Stoiber said that in an ever changing world, Europe can only meet its challenges successfully if it preserves its integrity as a bloc.
The EU is currently unable to adjust to global developments as quickly as the United States, he said, adding that the continent must remain united to keep up with the US.