The government efforts to boost investment set new records in 2018 both in terms of the number of projects and their combined value, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Peter Szijjarto told a press conference on Thursday.
According to Hungarian news agency MTI, Szijjarto said that the Hungarian economy saw a total of 98 major investments worth 1,380 billion forints (EUR 4.3bn) last year. He added that the government contributed 135 billion forints in non-refundable support to the projects.
The investments helped create 17,024 jobs, the average monthly gross salary in newly created jobs was 425,700 forints, which is 40 percent higher than the 2017 average salary, he added, according to MTI.
