Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its leader Chancellor Angela Merkel on their success in the German parliamentary elections on Sunday.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó held talks on the continuation of the Hungarian-Tunisian Economic Action Plan on Thursday in Budapest, the State Secretary's press chief said.
Hungary has become the stronghold of the European automotive industry thanks to the measures introduced over the last three years, including the restructuring of the tax system, the creation of a flexible Labour Code and the reform of vocational training, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday in Szolnok at the inauguration ceremony of the F. Segura Spanish car parts manufacturing factory.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban attended the inauguration ceremony of a new vegetable oil factory built by the Swiss Glencore group in Foktő.
At the meeting of the Hungarian-Russian Joint Economic Committee on Wednesday in Budapest, it was agreed that the agriculture ministries of the two countries would begin preparations for the establishment of joint enterprises in order to increase agricultural trade, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations of the Prime Minister’s Office Péter Szijjártó said at the press conference following the meeting.
Cooperation between the governments of Hungary and Russia on boosting exports were the focus of talks between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Russian minister of agriculture Nikolai Fyodorov in parliament on Wednesday.
Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang is on a four-day official visit to Hungary, meeting Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as well as Hungarian ministers and other public dignitaries, including his Hungarian counterpart President János Áder, Speaker of Parliament László Kövér and Budapest Mayor István Tarlós. The President has also opened an exhibition of Vietnamese ceramics at Budapest’s Museum of Ethnography and addressed a Vietnamese-Hungarian business forum today, stressing Vietnam’s openness towards investors from Hungary.
Hungary may again become one of the regions frontrunners in 2013-2014, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a conference of honorary consuls in Budapest on Tuesday.
Danish medical supplies company Coloplast will expand its production capacities in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Coloplast Vice President Allan Rasmussen announced on Monday.
Both the Hungarian and the Vietnamese governments would like to improve trade turnover between the two countries, which is currently 120 million dollars, Head of the Prime Minister’s Press Office Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian news agency MTI following the meeting between President of Vietnam Truong Tan Sang and Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán on Monday in Budapest.