Mikepércs
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Mikepércs is a village in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Geography
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Economy
CATL battery factory
As part of Hungarian president Viktor Orbán's 2010 "Eastern Opening" policy of economic realignment towards China and Russia, on 12Script error: No such module "String".August 2022, Chinese battery manufacturer CATL announced it would construct a USD$7.8Script error: No such module "String".billion, 100Script error: No such module "String".GWh battery factory on 221Script error: No such module "String".hectares of land located in the Southern Economic Zone in Debrecen;[2] the project was hailed by Hungary's governing Fidesz party as the biggest foreign investment in the nation's history, and the factory would be the largest of its kind in Europe.[3]
However, residents began to protest as construction began, sparked in late 2022 by a street protest organised by a group of local women. At two public hearings regarding the project, townspeople started fights and shouted at government officials, calling them traitors — a reporter for local newspaper Debreciner described "hundreds of people yelling and fighting".[3] Mikepércs' mayor Timár Zoltán announced he was also opposed to the project, despite being a member of Fidesz himself; similarly, György Matolcsy, the governor of the Hungarian National Bank, also came out against the factory.[4]
Residents are concerned about pollution, property values, and unemployment. Zoltán told the New York Times that CATL had told him it was "too busy" to send a representative to a town-hall meeting.[3] In response, Fidesz has blamed George Soros for fomenting protests; Debrecen mayor László Papp blamed "fake information" for the locals' opposition.[3]
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