Romanian Minister of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises Ovidiu Silaghi and Hungarian Economy Minister Gordon Bajnai signed in Satu Mare (northwestern Romania) on October 16 the protocol of the 3rd Romanian-Hungarian Joint Intergovernmental Commission to be the basis of a joint sitting of the Romanian and Hungarian governments due on Oct. 21 in Szeged, Hungary.
Silaghi told a news conference that the participants in the meeting negotiating the protocol had examined the goals to be achieved this year, which had been set in a previous document. According to him, Romania and Hungary have exchanged goods worth 5 billion euros since the beginning of this year, going higher than the specialists’ prediction of just 2 billion euros. There are joint projects of the two countries on energy, with Bucharest and Budapest seeking to establish natural gas networks, he added.
“Romania and Hungary are in the same situation, in which 70% of exports are bound for the European Union markets. We plan to find new markets to sell our products”, Silaghi said.
Hungarian Minister Bajnai announced that there are more than 8,000 Hungarian firms in the Romanian market, and that such firms invested more than one billion euros; their commercial activity leads to development, he stressed.
“We constantly continue to assure you of the openness of our market and we are waiting for Romanian investors. After Romania joined the EU, the traffic has increased spectacularly and the two governments actively cooperate on the development of highways”, Bajnai said.
He said the Hungarian and Romanian authorities want to develop three checkpoints of a high capacity and to develop railway transport.
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