The new department of the Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BKIK), the Department of Service for Helping Economic Activities, which was formed on 3 May 2012, elected Csaba Csontos (foto) as president, who is also an active member of the Latimo Union. Among the members of board of the department there is Sándor Balogh, President of Latimo, Tibor Kisvárdai, Eszter Rodé and Dr. Endre Kanizsay.
The department’s aim is to help and give legal and business advice to all those who would like to form any kind of economic relationship with any Latin American country. It makes the department even more important that the countries in this region have been more successful fighting the recession and there is not a single country among them that has not reduced poverty and improved the living standard of those in bad conditions.
In most countries of Latin America they have realized that it is impossible to base a developed economy on poverty and underprivileged society. The founders of the department believe that the countries of the continent can offer great opportunities for Hungarian businesses; moreover they can gain important experience too. There are a lot of common features in the two countries’ development, one of which is the peripheral situation of the countries of Central-Eastern Europe and Latin America.
The meeting was opened by Dr. Zoltán Kiss, Vice President of the Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BKIK) then Sérgio Eduardo Moreira Lima, Brazil’s Ambassador to Hungary made a presentation entitled “Economic situation and opportunities in Brazil”.
The development indicators of the world’s 6th largest economy are impressive, emphasized the ambassador and added; Brazil hopes to soon outrun France and come fifth among the world’s biggest economies. There are great potentials in Brazilian-Hungarian relations – said Sérgio Eduardo Moreira Lima, because at present the barely half-a-billion-turnover is unduly low. In Brazil, according to official data, there live about 100,000 Hungarians or people with Hungarian roots.
Many of them play important roles in Brazil’s business life and this can create a very good basis to expand relations. Sérgio Eduardo Moreira Lima (foto) spoke about the important tasks that his country is facing: Brazil organizes the 2014 Football World Cup and in 2016 the Olympic Games. But before all this Brazil will host an international event of great importance; the World Science Forum will organize its 6th meeting in Rio de Janeiro in 2013.
The dynamic development of the past decade has presented the opportunity for Brazil to fall into line with the leading powers of the world in the field of science and education besides reducing social differences. The ambassador emphasized that it was not by mere accident that Brazil, the country that produces two-third of the continent’s GDP was chosen, since the scientific map of the world is constantly changing and on this map Brazil already has a very significant position. (latimoport)
