Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) and his Hungarian counterpart Sandor Pinter want to deepen municipal relations between Bavaria and Hungary and strengthen police cooperation. In the coming year, a municipal conference between Hungarian and Bavarian partner municipalities should take place, Herrmann explained on Tuesday after a meeting of the ministers in Würzburg. “I am very pleased that the European idea is being filled with life in this way,” he said.
When it comes to police cooperation, the ministers want to give each other more support and exchange experiences, for example in the area of cybercrime. In addition, the ministers agreed that the EU’s external borders “must be protected considerably better”. The pressure on “uncooperative countries of origin” in the case of returns must be increased.