{"id":1037528,"date":"2018-04-22T01:33:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T05:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=1037528"},"modified":"2018-04-22T01:33:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T05:33:42","slug":"v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"V4 Ministers Sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Industrial Policy Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1037529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1037529\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1037529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015-696x459.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015-637x420.jpg 637w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015-600x395.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1037529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTI Fot\u00f3: M\u00e1th\u00e9 Zolt\u00e1n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economy ministers of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/?s=v4\">Visegrad Group<\/a>\u00a0(a grouping which comprises the Czech Rep., Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperating in the area of industrial policy in Budapest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The MoU was signed by Economy Minister Mih\u00e1ly Varga, Czech Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Vladimir B\u00e4rtl, Poland\u2019s Deputy Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology Marcin Ociepa, and Slovak State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy Rastislav Chovanec.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is our goal for the region to become a flagship for the development of robotic and artificial intelligence in the coming decade,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Varga said at the signing ceremony. He said the MoU was about raising V4 industrial policy cooperation to a new level, creating a common platform for managing manufacturing-commerce links, as well as harnessing advances in digital technologies, Industry 4.0 and the spread of robotics, which, he added, require continuous flexibility at European and global level.<\/p>\n<p>Varga said one aim was to increasingly merge V4 industrial policies via the spheres of automotive and mechanical engineering. Many types of cooperation in specialist areas particular to the region\u2019s strengths remain untapped, and production segments in the automotive industry can be shared, he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36336\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36336\" src=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004.jpg 5311w, https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004-575x372.jpg 575w, https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004-70x45.jpg 70w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"582\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister for National Economy Mih\u00e1ly Varga with Polish counterpart Marcin Ociepa (l3), Czech Vladim\u00edr B\u00e4rtl (l4) and Slovakian Rastislav Chovanec (l5) in Budapest. Photo: M\u00e1th\u00e9 Zolt\u00e1n\/ MTI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In recent years, the average growth rate in the Visegrad countries has surpassed that of the EU, Varga said, noting EU growth of 2.4% last year as against the V4\u2019s 4.3%. The region\u2019s economies are catching up with the EU and gaining economic weight in the process, he said. \u201cIt is the joint task of the Visegrad governments to support access to regional and global markets for promising SMEs operating in the region,\u201d he added. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/council-eu\/configurations\/compet\/\">European Competitiveness Council (COMPET)<\/a>\u00a0aims to boost industry\u2019s contribution to economic output to 20% of the total, an initiative the V4 countries back and aim to build on, Varga said. The minister said Hungary backs the initiative to connect the V4 capital cities,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/orban-meets-new-polish-pm-talks-migration-defending-post-christian-post-national-era-hungary-45315\/\">Warsaw<\/a>, Prague,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/bilateral-relations-slovakia-excellent-szijjarto-bratislava-15146\/\">Bratislava<\/a>\u00a0and Budapest with high-speed rail.<\/p>\n<p>The heads of the V4 countries\u2019 statistical offices also signed a cooperation agreement at the meeting in Budapest on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>via hungarymatters.hu \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/v4-ministers-sign-mou-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/\">hungarytoday.hu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[caption id=\"attachment_1037529\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"768\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1037529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015-696x459.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015-637x420.jpg 637w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015-600x395.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a> MTI Fot\u00f3: M\u00e1th\u00e9 Zolt\u00e1n[\/caption]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economy ministers of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/?s=v4\">Visegrad Group<\/a>\u00a0(a grouping which comprises the Czech Rep., Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperating in the area of industrial policy in Budapest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The MoU was signed by Economy Minister Mih\u00e1ly Varga, Czech Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Vladimir B\u00e4rtl, Poland\u2019s Deputy Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology Marcin Ociepa, and Slovak State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy Rastislav Chovanec.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is our goal for the region to become a flagship for the development of robotic and artificial intelligence in the coming decade,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Varga said at the signing ceremony. He said the MoU was about raising V4 industrial policy cooperation to a new level, creating a common platform for managing manufacturing-commerce links, as well as harnessing advances in digital technologies, Industry 4.0 and the spread of robotics, which, he added, require continuous flexibility at European and global level.<\/p>\n<p>Varga said one aim was to increasingly merge V4 industrial policies via the spheres of automotive and mechanical engineering. Many types of cooperation in specialist areas particular to the region\u2019s strengths remain untapped, and production segments in the automotive industry can be shared, he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36336\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36336\" src=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004.jpg 5311w, https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004-575x372.jpg 575w, https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419004-70x45.jpg 70w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"582\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister for National Economy Mih\u00e1ly Varga with Polish counterpart Marcin Ociepa (l3), Czech Vladim\u00edr B\u00e4rtl (l4) and Slovakian Rastislav Chovanec (l5) in Budapest. Photo: M\u00e1th\u00e9 Zolt\u00e1n\/ MTI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In recent years, the average growth rate in the Visegrad countries has surpassed that of the EU, Varga said, noting EU growth of 2.4% last year as against the V4\u2019s 4.3%. The region\u2019s economies are catching up with the EU and gaining economic weight in the process, he said. \u201cIt is the joint task of the Visegrad governments to support access to regional and global markets for promising SMEs operating in the region,\u201d he added. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/council-eu\/configurations\/compet\/\">European Competitiveness Council (COMPET)<\/a>\u00a0aims to boost industry\u2019s contribution to economic output to 20% of the total, an initiative the V4 countries back and aim to build on, Varga said. The minister said Hungary backs the initiative to connect the V4 capital cities,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/orban-meets-new-polish-pm-talks-migration-defending-post-christian-post-national-era-hungary-45315\/\">Warsaw<\/a>, Prague,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/bilateral-relations-slovakia-excellent-szijjarto-bratislava-15146\/\">Bratislava<\/a>\u00a0and Budapest with high-speed rail.<\/p>\n<p>The heads of the V4 countries\u2019 statistical offices also signed a cooperation agreement at the meeting in Budapest on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>via hungarymatters.hu \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/v4-ministers-sign-mou-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/\">hungarytoday.hu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1037529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>V4 Ministers Sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Industrial Policy Cooperation &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"V4 Ministers Sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Industrial Policy Cooperation &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp;  Economy ministers of the\u00a0Visegrad Group\u00a0(a grouping which comprises the Czech Rep., Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperating in the area of industrial policy in Budapest.  The MoU was signed by Economy Minister Mih\u00e1ly Varga, Czech Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Vladimir B\u00e4rtl, Poland\u2019s Deputy Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology Marcin Ociepa, and Slovak State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy Rastislav Chovanec. \u201cIt is our goal for the region to become a flagship for the development of robotic and artificial intelligence in the coming decade,\u201d Varga said at the signing ceremony. He said the MoU was about raising V4 industrial policy cooperation to a new level, creating a common platform for managing manufacturing-commerce links, as well as harnessing advances in digital technologies, Industry 4.0 and the spread of robotics, which, he added, require continuous flexibility at European and global level.  Varga said one aim was to increasingly merge V4 industrial policies via the spheres of automotive and mechanical engineering. Many types of cooperation in specialist areas particular to the region\u2019s strengths remain untapped, and production segments in the automotive industry can be shared, he added.  Minister for National Economy Mih\u00e1ly Varga with Polish counterpart Marcin Ociepa (l3), Czech Vladim\u00edr B\u00e4rtl (l4) and Slovakian Rastislav Chovanec (l5) in Budapest. Photo: M\u00e1th\u00e9 Zolt\u00e1n\/ MTI.   In recent years, the average growth rate in the Visegrad countries has surpassed that of the EU, Varga said, noting EU growth of 2.4% last year as against the V4\u2019s 4.3%. The region\u2019s economies are catching up with the EU and gaining economic weight in the process, he said. \u201cIt is the joint task of the Visegrad governments to support access to regional and global markets for promising SMEs operating in the region,\u201d he added. The\u00a0European Competitiveness Council (COMPET)\u00a0aims to boost industry\u2019s contribution to economic output to 20% of the total, an initiative the V4 countries back and aim to build on, Varga said. The minister said Hungary backs the initiative to connect the V4 capital cities,\u00a0Warsaw, Prague,\u00a0Bratislava\u00a0and Budapest with high-speed rail.  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The MoU was signed by Economy Minister Mih\u00e1ly Varga, Czech Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Vladimir B\u00e4rtl, Poland\u2019s Deputy Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology Marcin Ociepa, and Slovak State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy Rastislav Chovanec. \u201cIt is our goal for the region to become a flagship for the development of robotic and artificial intelligence in the coming decade,\u201d Varga said at the signing ceremony. He said the MoU was about raising V4 industrial policy cooperation to a new level, creating a common platform for managing manufacturing-commerce links, as well as harnessing advances in digital technologies, Industry 4.0 and the spread of robotics, which, he added, require continuous flexibility at European and global level.  Varga said one aim was to increasingly merge V4 industrial policies via the spheres of automotive and mechanical engineering. Many types of cooperation in specialist areas particular to the region\u2019s strengths remain untapped, and production segments in the automotive industry can be shared, he added.  Minister for National Economy Mih\u00e1ly Varga with Polish counterpart Marcin Ociepa (l3), Czech Vladim\u00edr B\u00e4rtl (l4) and Slovakian Rastislav Chovanec (l5) in Budapest. Photo: M\u00e1th\u00e9 Zolt\u00e1n\/ MTI.   In recent years, the average growth rate in the Visegrad countries has surpassed that of the EU, Varga said, noting EU growth of 2.4% last year as against the V4\u2019s 4.3%. The region\u2019s economies are catching up with the EU and gaining economic weight in the process, he said. \u201cIt is the joint task of the Visegrad governments to support access to regional and global markets for promising SMEs operating in the region,\u201d he added. The\u00a0European Competitiveness Council (COMPET)\u00a0aims to boost industry\u2019s contribution to economic output to 20% of the total, an initiative the V4 countries back and aim to build on, Varga said. The minister said Hungary backs the initiative to connect the V4 capital cities,\u00a0Warsaw, Prague,\u00a0Bratislava\u00a0and Budapest with high-speed rail.  The heads of the V4 countries\u2019 statistical offices also signed a cooperation agreement at the meeting in Budapest on Thursday.  via hungarymatters.hu \/\u00a0hungarytoday.hu","og_url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/","og_site_name":"Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BocskaiRadio","article_published_time":"2018-04-22T05:33:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":506,"url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Csibi Lor\u00e1nd","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg","twitter_creator":"@BocskaiRadio","twitter_site":"@BocskaiRadio","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/"},"author":{"name":"Csibi Lor\u00e1nd","@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/10edfc7ddc0e006131357c2bcb81b96b"},"headline":"V4 Ministers Sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Industrial Policy Cooperation","datePublished":"2018-04-22T05:33:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/"},"wordCount":405,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/","name":"V4 Ministers Sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Industrial Policy Cooperation &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg","datePublished":"2018-04-22T05:33:42+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/v4-ministers-sign-a-memorandum-of-understanding-on-industrial-policy-cooperation\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/D_MTZ20180419015.jpg","width":768,"height":506,"caption":"Budapest, 2018. \u00e1prilis 19. 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