Minister: Govt wants competitive Hungarian communities in Carpathian Basin

The Hungarian government aims to make the Hungarian communities of the Carpathian Basin competitive, the minister of agriculture said in Budapest on Thursday. Development schemes geared towards the region's communities aim to boost economic cooperation among ethnic Hungarian communities and, in a broader sense, across central and eastern Europe as a whole, Istvan Nagy told the Carpathian Basin Unity Forum. The first such schemes, made possible by Hungary's improving economic performance, mainly targeted ethnic agricultural firms, the minister said. The government gives special attention to supporting development schemes that lead to the establishment of value-creating businesses through cooperation among local farmers, Nagy said.