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Organized by the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, an extraordinary meeting of energy ministers was held in Brussels on 28 February 2022, at which Hungary was represented by Secretary of State Attila Steiner.

The extraordinary meeting of the Ministers of the Interior was organised by the French Presidency in Brussels on 27 February 2022, at which Hungary was represented by Minister of the Interior Sándor Pintér.

At the General Affairs Council meeting on 22 February 2022, Hungary was represented by State Secretary Oszkár Ökrös. The Council was chaired by Clément Beaune, French Secretary of State for EU Affairs, and the Commission was represented by Vice-Presidents Dubravka Šuica, Věra Jourová and Maroš Šefčovič, and Commissioner Didier Reynders.

Agriculture ministers exchanged views on the coherence between the CAP, trade policy and the EU Green Deal, deforestation-free products, EU promotion policy and market situation, including the ongoing crisis in the pig meat sector during the Agriculture and Fisheries Council, held on the 21th of February in Brussels.

At the initiative of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDIO), the V4 Horizon Europe Task Force has started its work. The online meeting on 2 February was attended by twenty-nine experts from national ministries, research funding agencies, Permanent Representations and Brussels based RDI offices. The agenda of the first meeting included measures to improve the participation of each country in the Horizon Europe Research Framework Program.