I fully agree with the concerns raised today at the seminar “The Success of the Nordic Corporate Governance Model”. The #duediligence directive proposal disproportionally interferes with the internal working of companies without any basis.
Strong cooperation & mutual respect is business as usual for the #VisegradGroup.
#V4 countries go back to normal: “Respecting our UA colleagues, we would like to return to the cooperation in this format,” @MorawieckiM announced. “All the remaining issues, in which we showed solidarity & support, will bind us again.”
He went on to declare that the EU will continue to supply military equipment to Ukraine in the future. Is it only me who sees discrepancy between Borrell's two sentences?
“The military stocks of most MSs have been, I wouldn’t say exhausted, but depleted in a high proportion, because we have been providing a lot of capacity to the Ukrainians,” warned @JosepBorrellF yesterday in @EP_ForeignAff meeting.
Our job is to create opportunities for EU companies and for our citizens to benefit from them. More trade is also an opportunity for third countries to develop and to expand their freedom by following our standards.
The left is deluded when it pushes 🇪🇺 to lecture, instead of approaching w/h respect. It's dialogue & monitoring of commitments that will contribute to the development of human rights, labour&environmental protection in our partner countries, not tearing up #freetrade agreements.
Great debate at yesterday's INTA-DROI meeting on how we can ensure the respect for #humanrights in 🇪🇺 #tradeagreements.
At a time when there is war in our neighborhood and HU is admitting tens of thousands of #refugees every week, becoming more secure and more peaceful is a big enough reason to celebrate.
While worldwide peace has been deteriorating for 3 consecutive years now, Hungary climbed two places to 13th on the ranking, overtaking countries like Germany, Norway and Finland.
#GlobalPeaceIndex: Hungary is among the most peaceful, safest countries in the world.
The high investment rate helps in sustaining 🇭🇺's economic growth even in the crisis fueled by the war.
Off we go!
Despite the war, investments in Hungary🇭🇺 have increased. In 2022Q2, investments amounted to 3,500 billion HUF, an annual increase of 7.8 %. The domestic investment rate is close to 28 %, one of the highest in the EU 🇪🇺.
@BorderlexEditor Look at your title and what was really said by the EEAS representative at the meeting:
"We will of course be engaging with whoever wins the election, advising them of our interest and intention to deepen the relationship,”
Instead, more & more often they are trying to give instructions to politicians. It would be a dangerous precedent to link approval of strategically important #FTAs to election outcomes. #Tradepolicy has to be conducted without conditionality on the colour of govts. at power.
I was appalled by today's @BorderlexEditor article title "EU hopes to revive trade agreement after #Brazil elections". Unfortunately, journalists & political analysts intend to forget their mission of presenting facts and analysing different scenarios.
We need a real pro-SME trade policy, that delivers results.
The COM at one hand is trying to support #SMEs while at the other hand burdens them with newer&newer administrative requirements: such as #duediligencedirective, the country-by-country reporting or the #CSRD (corporate sustainability directive).
It sheds light on the gap b/w COM's measures for SMEs & their effects on the ground. Despite the ➕ attempts, results are lagging behind: there's no sufficient coordination, the projects lack long-term continuity & visibility or expire too soon, moreover the imp. is struggling.
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ 🇭🇺 európai parlamenti képviselő //
🇪🇺 Member of the European Parliament
@EP_Economics
@EP_Trade