Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke in Warsaw before heading into talks on EU’s future with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of three other central European nations.
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“The Bratislava summit will accent ways that we can improve economic power, create more job for young people and now to boost internal and border security”, Germany’s chancellor said at a joint press conference with Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka in Prague.
The summit will go ahead without Britain.
Merkel was meeting the prime ministers of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia ahead of an European Union summit planned in Bratislava, Slovakia, next month – without Britain – that is to discuss issues stemming from Britain’s vote to leave the group.
The German branch of the anti-mass migration Identitarian youth movement occupied the iconic Brandenburg gate to slam the migrant policies of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“Because Britain’s exit is not just any event – it is a deep break in the European Union’s history of integration, and so it is important to find a careful answer”.
“Rather than rushing into activities, we should perhaps first take time to think about what we, as the 27 countries, must do better”, she said, adding that this was the direction that talks with partner countries were going in.
However, the concept of a common Army is a thorny issue within the EU.
Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, meanwhile, called for setting up a European border guard to protect the external border.
But six of the EU’s 27 post-Brexit membership do not belong to NATO: Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, Malta and Sweden.
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Merkel is meeting 15 other heads of state this week to prepare the groundwork for a September 16 summit in Bratislava aimed at giving new agenda to the bloc hit by the immigration wave and Britain’s decision to leave.
