V4 economy cttees meet in Budapest

The Visegrad countries have a vested interest in a strong, economically stable European Union, and feel responsibility for improving the community's competitiveness to promote sustainable growth, the head of the Hungarian parliament's economic committee said on Thursday. The Visegrad countries should promote job creation and equal access to digital technology and qualified labour, Erik Banki said on the sidelines of a meeting of the respective Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak committees in Budapest. The Visegrad countries should effectively represent their interests within the European Union, he said, adding that Hungary, which holds the rotating presidency of the group, seeks to deepen V4 cooperation. The participants signed a joint statement concerning, among others, the revision of the Posting of Workers Directive and the next EU budget period. The document calls for special attention to be paid to workers in the freight forwarding sector which has been removed from the revision and states that such workers are mobile employees and not employees posted abroad.