Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha visited the site of Wednesday’s Danube boat accident on Friday.
“Japanese enterprises are playing an important role in the growth of the Hungarian economy, and amongst others have contributed to the 5.3 percent increase in Hungarian GDP realised during the first quarter of this year, with which Hungary achieved the fastest rate of growth in the European Union”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Thursday. Prior to the lunch for Japanese investors organised by the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA), Mr. Szijjártó highlighted: “Cooperation between Hungary and Japan, and between the Hungarian and Japanese people, has always been based on mutual respect, and this cooperation has perhaps never before been as stable and successful as it is today”.
“Hungary shares in South Koreas grief and is fully cooperating with it”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
“Hungary has always paid particular attention to and placed major emphasis on cooperation between the countries of Central Europe, and accordingly on good relations with our neighbours”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a joint press conference with Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Marija Pejčinović Burić in the Croatian capital on Thursday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s State Secretary for Information and the International Representation of Hungary expressed his hope that the situation that has developed with relation to legislation that is negatively affecting the life of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia will be successfully resolved with the recently elected new Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Hungarian subsidiary of the German Bock Group, Bock Hungária Ltd., will be expanding its production capacity in Ajka and Noszlop with an investment of 3.8 billion forints (EUR 11.6 million), creating 60 new jobs as a result in the Veszprém County towns.
“EU enlargement in the direction of the Western Balkans is in Hungary’s national security and national economic interests”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Tuesday in Bratislava.
“The Government’s soon-to-be-unveiled Economy Protection Action Plan will encourage long-term, high rate of economic growth at least 2 percent higher than the EU average”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced at an automotive industry conference organised by the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) in Budapest on Wednesday.
“Hungary does not support Brussel’s plans to senselessly restrict the competitiveness of the automotive industry, citing environmental protection”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó at the automotive industry conference organised by the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) in Budapest on Wednesday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó met with General Father of the Lebanese Maronite Order Nematollah Hashem on 27 May in Budapest, whom he told that the Hungarian governing party has achieved an epochal success at the European Parliament elections, which “is a confirmation of politics that are based on Christian foundations”.