This German province is a crucial investment and trade partner for Hungary

Judit Varga, the head of parliament’s European affairs committee, had talks with political and economic leaders of North Rhine-Westphalia on Friday.

The German province is “a crucial investment and trade partner” for Hungary, Varga told MTI after the talks. She said economic ties were good but needed to be further developed. She added that preserving and developing German-Hungarian and North Rhine-Westphalian-Hungarian ties would fit in the priorities of Hungary’s upcoming European Union presidency.

Varga met Stefan Engstfeld, her counterpart in the province’s parliament, and other local officials.

During her talks, Varga discussed “practical areas where the EU could have a better performance and where it could set more rationalistic goals for the industry, which could be met and which are not ideologically motivated,” she said. The talks touched upon the EU’s general economic state, priorities of the Hungarian presidency and the European parliamentary elections.

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