The budget proposal presented on Tuesday by Finland which currently holds the EU presidency is completely unacceptable for Hungary as it further reduces cohesion funds within development allocations, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Tuesday after the meeting of the General Affairs Council of EU Member States held in Luxembourg.
“Samsung SDI will be expanding its battery production plant in Göd with an investment of 390 billion forints (EUR 1.17 billion), creating 1200 new jobs”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said at a press conference on Thursday in Budapest.
Hungary can offer the Turkic Council a connection to Europe and the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday in Baku at the 7th summit of the Turkic Council.
Economic cooperation between Hungary and Uzbekistan is making good progress, and there are also further opportunities, among others, in the field of the pharmaceutical industry.
“Hungary regards the fact that Washington has introduced sanctions against two Turkish ministries and three Turkish ministers in response to the Turkish offensive in north-eastern Syria to be an American-Turkish issue”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told reporters on Tuesday in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he held bilateral talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on the sidelines of a session of the Turkic Council.
“It is in Hungary’s interests for the Turks to solve the immigration problem in the direction of Syria, and not towards Europe”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to public media on Tuesday in Baku, where he is attending a session of the Turkic Council as part of the Hungarian delegation led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan conducted bilateral talks on Monday in Baku where both of them arrived to attend the next meeting of the Turkic Council.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent a message of congratulations to his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki on the occasion of the decisive election victory of the Law and Justice Party.
“Over 2300 people from 118 countries have registered to attend the Budapest World Water Summit, which begins on Tuesday; more than for the previous two events”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Deputy State Secretary for Export Development and Chair of the inter-ministerial committee charged with preparations for the event István Joó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Monday.
Strengthening economic cooperation is the next step in Hungarian-Azeri relations.