Szijjarto: 2018 year of record-breaking investments

Government efforts to boost investment set new records in 2018 both in terms of the number of projects and their combined value, the foreign minister said on Thursday. The Hungarian economy saw a total of 98 major investments worth 1,380 billion forints (EUR 4.3bn) last year, Peter Szijjarto told a news conference. The government contributed 135 billion forints in non-refundable support to the projects. The investments helped create 17,024 jobs, he said. Thanks to these major investments, Hungary registered the third lowest unemployment rate in the European Union last year, Szijjarto said.