Foreign Direct Investment Activities  •  Hungary Business Seminar (23 April 2008) Seminar organised within the framework of the FDI-Japan investment project. Date: 23 April 2008 Co-organised by: the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary and the Hungarian Investment & Trade Development Agency (ITDH) Purpose: the seminar aimed to give Japanese companies opportunities to explore and consider investment prospects in Hungary. Report: Hungary Business Seminar Report Pictures of the event (click on pictures to zoom in):  •  During his visit to Japan where he took part in the 17th EU-Japan Summit Meeting , the European Commissioner for External Trade, Mr. Peter Mandelson, gave a public speech on "Unfinished Globalisation: Investment and the EU-Japan relationship" Date: Monday 21 April 2008 Venue: Palace Hotel, Tokyo, Japan Organisers: the Delegation of the European Commission to Japan and the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, with the support of METI and JETRO. More information: EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson called the issue of investment "unfinished globalisation" for EU and Japan. In a speech in Tokyo, Mandelson said that barriers to investment had kept productive EU investment out of the Japanese economy, despite the fact that Europe had been welcoming such investment for decades. Report by the EU-Japan Centre Read the speech (English version) or visit the Delegation of the European Commission to Japan website for Japanese version and other details. Pictures of the event (click on pictures to zoom in): • Mr Masakazu Toyoda, Japanese Vice-Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, made a speech in reaction to the Commissioner's presentation. Read the speech of Mr. Toyoda: Japanese version / English version • "Mandelson raps Tokyo on trade barriers", article of the Financial Times. Read further on the Financial Times.