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HUNGARY GOVT ‘AMONG MOST STABLE IN EUROPE’

Hungary’s government is “one of the most stable” cabinets in Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a Hungarian-Turkish business forum in Budapest.

The forum, organised by the National Trading House of Hungary, was attended by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In his address, Orbán praised Turkey for having a stable governmental system and a “leader with a strong legitimacy”.
Referring to Turkish businesses in Hungary, Orbán said that they provided jobs to over 1,000 people, while 8 major projects with Turkish involvement were being negotiated. Those projects could result in investment totalling 500 million dollars,
he added. He also announced that Hungary would offer 150 scholarships to Turkish students. In his address, Erdogan called for strengthening Turkish-Hungarian ties. Relations are already robust, he said, thanking Hungary
for “tending carefully to the countries’ shared historic heritage”. He cited tourism, transport and local projects in Africa as areas of cooperation. Trade between Hungary and Turkey reached 2.6 billion dollars in 2017, he said, and already 1.8 billion in 2018, representing an increase of 8%. The aim is to boost the bilateral annual trade volume to 6 billion dollars, he said.