On Thursday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán inaugurated a new plant of Danish company Grundfos in Székesfehérvár. The new plant has been built with an investment of 12 billion forints (EUR 40m) and will create 350 new jobs.
On Thursday Hungary's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held talks with Octavian Calmic, Moldova's deputy economy minister.
The Government is dedicated to supporting companies that plan to set up service centres in Hungary, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó told a conference organised by professional services firm Deloitte in Budapest on Wednesday.
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen discussed bilateral relations with Ukrainian Prime Minister Mikola Azarov in Kiev on Tuesday.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations, Péter Szijjártó held talks with Arben Ahmetaj, the economic development minister of Albania's new government.
Péter Szijjártó, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations held talks with Czech deputy minister of industry and trade Milan Hovorka on bilateral economic cooperation in Budapest on Tuesday.
A cooperation agreement has been signed with Chinese telecommunications company ZTE on the occasion of their recent expansion. State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó and ZTE Vice President for Central and Eastern Europe Chang Xiao Wei were present at the event. The Chinese mobile phone manufacturer has announced the opening of a mobile phone repair centre in Hungary, which will create 50 new jobs and also offer opportunities for Hungarian SMEs.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and CEO of Systemax EMEA Technology Group Pim Dale made a joint press statement following their meeting in Budapest, announcing the company’s investment in Hungary. Systemax, which markets computer technology products and components, has decided to establish a service centre in Budapest, creating more than 500 new jobs.
"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did not simply unveil the brutality of the communist terror, but became the chronicler of millions of victims, including hundreds of thousands of Hungarians, who were not given the opportunity to tell their story", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the opening of the exhibition entitled „A Russian Patriot – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)" in Budapest’s House of Terror Museum.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held negotiations in Moscow on the two most important fields of Hungarian-Russian cooperation: energy and agriculture.