Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and Director of Russian space research company Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin agreed on the commencement of Hungarian-Russian space research projects and on the beginning of the selection process of the Hungarian astronaut to be sent up to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024-2025 at a meeting in Moscow on Friday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó opened the Moscow representative office of the Hungarian Export Development Agency (HEPA) on Friday. “The job of the Hungarian government is to facilitate the success of Hungarian enterprises on the Russian market, similarly to the large Western European countries”, Mr. Szijjártó declared at the opening ceremony.
“Four South Korean enterprises are investing a total of seventy billion forints (EUR 211.5 million) in Hungary, creating 300 new workplaces”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on Thursday in Seoul following talks with his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-Wha.
A Hungarian Cultural Institute opened in Seoul on Thursday. At the opening ceremony, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told reporters: “30 years ago, a new Europe was born thanks to the fact that the countries of Central Europe regained their freedom. Hungary is proud of the fact that it was the first of these countries to establish diplomatic relations with South Korea”.
“French company Suez will be expanding its facility in Oroszlány with an investment of 9.6 billion forints (EUR 29 million), creating 85 new jobs at its water purification membrane production plant”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at a press conference to launch the investment project in Budapest on Tuesday.
There is a paradigm shift under way in the Hungarian economy, as part of which the focus is shifting from production to high added-value jobs, services, research and development, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade stated on Monday in Brussels at a roundtable discussion about health care innovation held at the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the European Union.
Hungary expects the European Union’s new Africa Strategy currently in the making to focus on the implementation of economic development programmes and the improvement of the security situation, rather than serve as a document that inspires ever further flows of migration, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Monday in Brussels, in a break of the meeting of the foreign ministers of EU Member States.
“The latest expert opinion issued by the Venice Commission has once again made it clear that the Language Act adopted during the period in office of the previous Ukrainian President strips national communities of their existing, previously acquired rights with relation to the use of their native languages”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Saturday.
At the opening of the new Hungarian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said: “Cultural cooperation represents an outstanding hinterland for the development of political and economic relations”.
“The significance of Central Europe has increased continuously in recent years, and it has become the engine of European economic growth”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Friday in Tokyo.