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Hungarian FM Szijjártó: EU govts to discuss trade issues

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó

07 April 2025 14:31 (UTC +04:00)

Governments of European Union member states will discuss issues of trade with the United States and China in Luxembourg on Monday, since the bloc’s competitiveness deteriorated significantly in recent years due to the mistaken policy of Brussels, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a Facebook post before the Foreign Affairs Council meeting, APA reports citing daily News Hungary.

“Brussels has put European companies in a difficult position by unnecessarily politicising economic issues,” Szijjártó said.

The minister said that after imposing tariffs on China’s electric car industry, which European car manufacturers objected to, the European Commission failed to build normal customs cooperation with the United States.

“Yet, the problem was not complicated: tariffs on the car industry, which is the backbone of the two continental economies, should have been reduced, and everyone would have been better off,” Szijjártó said.