Human resources minister holds talks with German government, parliament officials

Berlin, April 29 (MTI) – Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog held talks with senior officials of the German federal government and the German parliament in Berlin, leading a delegation of the Hungarian-German friendship chapter of the national assembly.

Balog met Hartmut Koschyk, the German government’s minority affairs commissioner, and Johannes Singhammer, vice president of the Bundestag, politicians of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU).

The German partners appreciated that the protection of Christian values and ethnic minorities has been enshrined in Hungary’s constitution, saying that the country “can be proud” of its fundamental law, Balog told reporters after the talks.

“But when it came to discussing the migrant issue, a difference in opinions did emerge,” he said.

Although Hungary rejects the EU’s mandatory migrant quota scheme, it has assumed a large part of migration-related burdens, he said.