Bertalan Havasi, Press Chief of the Prime Minister, has told kormany.hu that in the Parliament building on Tuesday morning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Akdağ held talks on economic cooperation and the state of Europe.
During the meeting, which was also attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, the parties agreed that, in the light of data from the first two quarters of 2017, it is realistic to expect that bilateral trade between the two countries could reach USD 3 billion.
Also on the agenda were the most important challenges facing Europe, and the parties agreed that Hungarian-Turkish business cooperation should be maintained in third markets – primarily in Africa.