The State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economy Relations of the Prime Minister's Office received Minister of State Cornelia Pieper of the German Federal Foreign Office on Tuesday, the Ministry of State's Chief Press Officer told Hungarian news agency MTI.

At the meeting, State Secretary Szíjjártó called Hungarian-German economic relations a clear success story, because German companies provide livings for some 1 million 300 thousand Hungarians, Eva Varga's statement reads.

The Hungarian Government has concluded Strategic Cooperation Agreements with two large German corporations to date. 5 billion euros in German investment has entered Hungary since 2010, and German companies have opened 18 new factories here, the Chief Press Officer stated. The parties agreed on the importance of educational and cultural relations, in which extremely significant roles are played by the Andrássy University and the Goethe Institute.

(MTI)