Romania and Hungary’s ministries have signed an amendment for a 20008 agreement regarding preventing and combatting cross-border crime.
“The new agreement will strengthen police co-operation between Romania and Hungary, supplementing the provisions of the 2008 agreement, which is already a very useful tool for specialists from both countries. The new rules provide for more frequent meetings between representatives of the two countries as part of a Joint committee established by the 2008 agreement, in order to respond quickly to the new needs and trends in the fight against crime, including amidst Romania’s accession to the Schengen area,” Romania’s Ministry of Home Affairs reports.
Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, was on a visit to Bucharest to participate in a ministerial meeting of the quadrilateral Romania-Hungary-Azerbaijan-Georgia co-operation on a strategic partnership in the area of green energy development and transmission.
“The two dignitaries stressed that the objective of eliminating controls at internal land borders remains a priority of Romanian and Hungarian authorities, who have already successfully taken a series of measures to face the new operational challenges, so that the implementation of the second stage of Schengen accession goes smoothly. All these steps have resulted in a decrease in the figures on illegal migration, and the relevant authorities will continue to cooperate within the same parameters.”
Romania’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Catalin Predoiu, has expressed that these actions are propelled towards a decision to eliminate control at internal land borders by the end of 2024: in other words, Romania’s ascension into Schengen, which Hungary publicly supports.
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