The European Union must undergo changes, but not in a way that jeopardises basic principles , Foreign Minister János Martonyi said on Friday., at a reception celebration the 10th anniversary of Hungary joining the EU.
Hungary is ready to take steps towards launching and implementing a process of historic reconciliation aimed at countries with which it has so far been at odds, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh told a conference on Hungarian–Serbian relations held at the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Institute 5 May 2014.
It is very important that Hungarians cast their ballot at the upcoming European parliamentary elections in large numbers, Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi said on Sunday.
The delegation of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) attended the March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau in Poland on April 28, 2014. The program, which was organized by the International March of the Living Foundation, was held for the twenty-seventh time in Poland. Participants – Christians and Jews, adults and youth, survivors and descendants – came from more than fifty countries to commemorate the Holocaust.
The European Union's Eastern Partnership policy should be made "deeper and faster" in the current geopolitical situation, Foreign Minister János Martonyi declared at the press conference held after the meeting of foreign affairs officials from the Visegrad Four and EU Eastern Partnership countries in Budapest on Tuesday.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Visegrad and Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries, as well as the representatives of the EU Presidency, the Commission (COM), the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the Group of the Nordic-Baltic Countries (NB8) had an informal meeting in Budapest on 28-29 April 2014, and discussed the future of the EaP in the light of the new challenges and mid-term tasks, issues to be dealt with halfway between the Vilnius and Riga Summits.
Statement of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Visegrad countries on the occasion of the V4 + Eastern Partnership informal Ministerial Meeting (Budapest, 28 April 2014)
The Visegrad Group (V4) is more important today than when its member states joined the European Union in 2004, Foreign Minister János Martonyi said on Monday, addressing a conference marking the tenth anniversary of the EU accession of ten member states.
Minister of State for European Affairs Enikő Győri represented Hungary in Vienna at the panel discussion “Returning to Europe: 10 years of EU integration”, along with Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia and Igor Senčar, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia.
Deputy State Secretary Gergely Prőhle received Douglas Davidson, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues from the US Department of State, on April 24, 2014. Mr Prőhle informed his guest about the current Holocaust Memorial Year in Hungary.