Polish, Hungarian presidents talk about their countries' future in EU

Hungarian President Janos Ader joined his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda on Friday in Kielce, southern Poland, to celebrate the Day of Polish-Hungarian Friendship.

"We also talked about the perspective of elections to the European Parliament, so about our future in the European Union and the future of the EU itself. In this context, it was hard not to talk about Brexit," Duda said during a press conference on Friday after his meeting with Ader.

The two presidents also discussed the two countries' cooperation with the United States, as part of the Three Seas Initiative and NATO, including planned purchases to modernize the Polish army, said Duda.

"We talked about our cooperation in the Visegrad Group and the Three Seas Initiative, so about cooperation on infrastructure: cooperation on the development of energy infrastructure and specifically gas transport," the Polish president added.

In his turn, Ader said it was worth congratulating Poland on its economic development.

Ader said Poland is a dynamic country, adding that Poland "has a stable GDP growth, low inflation, indebtedness of less than 50 percent of GDP and unemployment is almost not visible."

The Hungarian president also said that by 2020 his country would complete the construction the Hungarian segment of Via Carpatia, a planned transnational highway linking Lithuania to Greece via Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.