Senior V4, French lawmakers discuss security policy in Budapest

Parliamentary foreign affairs committee leaders of the four Visegrad countries held a two-day meeting with their French partners in Budapest and discussed security policy challenges in the east and the south, Zsolt Nemeth, the head of the Hungarian committee, said. The meeting was attended by respective officials of both houses of the French parliament and the Visegrad Four (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). The participants focussed on major foreign policy issues in and outside Europe, Nemeth told a press conference. Nemeth welcomed that the Visegrad countries and France held identical views on several issues, including the need of security.