Szijjarto: EU must focus on jobs for Europeans

The European Union should prioritse replacing jobs lost to the coronavirus epidemic, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday. After attending a videoconference of EU's foreign ministers, Szijjarto said on Facebook that before the pandemic, ministers had talked about "the need for legal migration and importing labour to the EU". Now "hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs." The meeting focused on renegotiating a 20-year agreement between the EU and 79 countries in Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean on economic and migration cooperation. "Aid must be delivered to where the problem occurs; problems shouldn't be imported to places that are problem-free," Szijjarto said. Aid to Africa, the Pacific and Caribbean should be in the form of economic development programmes implemented there "rather than bringing people here".