Hungary strongly supports Serbia’s integration into the European Union, which the “southern neighbour appreciates”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after meeting Ivan Mrkic, the Serbian foreign minister, in Budapest today.

The sides noted that thanks to good neighbourly relations between their countries, big border crossing developments were under way, with one opened in May and two more in the pipeline. Prime ministers Orbán and Mrkic said developing the Budapest-Belgrade rail line was in the two countries’ mutual interest, and work by their railway companies was being undertaken to this end. The parties also agreed on the launch of a Hungarian-Serbian scholarship programme in the near future.

(Prime Minister’s Office)