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Commemorating the Roma Holocaust
Ministry of Human Resources, August 2, 2013 1:37 PM
On 2 August 1944, three thousand Roma people were murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. What happened on that day only became fully known to history several decades later. 2 August was declared International Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day by the World Romani Congress in 1972. On this day, we remember the tens of thousands of Sinti and Roma people who were murdered throughout Europe during the Second World War.
MOL World Fencing Championships to begin on Monday in Budapest
Ministry of Human Resources, August 2, 2013 12:36 PM
Hungary’s largest sporting event this summer, the centennial MOL World Fencing Championships, are to begin on Monday in Budapest. The Ministry of National Economy is sponsoring the event with 180 million forints. Organisers are expecting 1100 participants from 106 countries, including more than 160 wheelchair fencers.
Scholarship Agreement signed between Hungary and Vietnam
Ministry of Human Resources, July 29, 2013 11:48 AM
Hungary and Vietnam have concluded an agreement on a scholarship programme in Budapest on Monday. The document was signed by Hungary's Minister of State for Higher Education István Klinghammer and Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Education and Training Tran Quang Quy.
Number of new university students receiving state funding has increased
Ministry of Human Resources, July 26, 2013 10:56 AM
Minister of State for Higher Education István Klinghammer stressed on Thursday that the number of students admitted into state-funded higher education has gone up this year compared with 2012.
11th IDBF Dragon Ship World Championship in Szeged
Ministry of Human Resources, July 24, 2013 5:33 PM
At the opening event, Minister of State for Sport of the Ministry of Human Resources István Simicskó welcomed the 3000 participants from 30 countries.
Teachers to receive 34 percent pay rise
Ministry of Human Resources, July 10, 2013 5:06 PM
The salaries of 150,000 teachers will increase by 34 percent on average as of 1 September 2013, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog announced.
Institute for the Mentally Ill in Berzence to receive HUF one billion for development
Ministry of Human Resources, July 9, 2013 3:13 PM
The Institute for the Mentally Ill in Berzence has won remarkable institutional development funding worth HUF one billion entirely from EU resources.
Tender for Budapest Museum quarter layout announced
Ministry of Human Resources, July 9, 2013 11:23 AM
The Museum of Fine Arts invited bids for designs for the layout and arrangement of buildings and the surrounding park in Budapest’s
planned new Museum Quarter.
Conference of European churches may boost Europe’s christian renewal, says Human Resources Minister
Ministry of Human Resources, July 8, 2013 5:37 PM
This year’s assembly of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) held in Budapest is hoped to give an impetus to the notion of Europe’s renewal based on Christian values, Hungary’s Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog said on Saturday evening, addressing the event.
Day of Slovaks in Hungary celebrated
Ministry of Human Resources, July 8, 2013 5:36 PM
The Day of Slovaks in Hungary was celebrated in Pálháza, a village on the Slovak border in north-eastern Hungary, on Saturday. In his address after an ecumenical service in the local Catholic church, Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog emphasised the importance of friendship and mutual trust between the Hungarian and Slovak nations.
Stipendium Hungaricum - the new Hungarian student scholarship programme
Ministry of Human Resources, July 8, 2013 5:30 PM
The Stipendium Hungaricum Student Scholarship Programme also contributes to the development of the host institution by increasing the capabilities of our universities and colleges to attract foreign students through assuring payment of course costs, and also contributes to increasing our international competitiveness.
Summer camp of disadvantaged and Roma children has opened in Velence
Ministry of Human Resources, July 8, 2013 5:22 PM
The summer camp organised by the National Roma Government opened on Monday in the locality of Velence situated in Fejér County where five hundred disadvantaged and Roma children will enjoy a summer holiday in the next few weeks, thanks, inter alia, to the funding of HUF 15 million provided by the Ministry of Human Resources.
Swiss-Hungarian project to improve and expand basic services
Ministry of Human Resources, July 3, 2013 5:41 PM
A Swiss-Hungarian model project has been launched today to improve and expand basic services in Hungary’s underdeveloped regions, the organisers said on Wednesday.
Teachers' salaries to be raised as of 1 September 2013, Minister Zoltán Balog says
Ministry of Human Resources, July 1, 2013 1:08 PM
The Government has decided to raise the salaries of Hungarian teachers from September 1 this year, Minister for Human Resources Zoltán Balog announced at a congress of the Teachers’ Trade Union (PSZ).
Implementation of Hungary’s inclusion strategy assessed positively by the European Commission
Ministry of Human Resources, June 26, 2013 4:49 PM
The European Commission has assessed the progress made by Member States in the implementation of their national Roma integration strategies and the measures they have taken.
Private sector funding is important to Hungarian innovation
Ministry of Human Resources, June 26, 2013 4:42 PM
Hungarian higher education receives 2.5 times more financial support from the private sector than from the state and this practice should continue, Minister of State for Higher Education István Klinghammer declared at a press conference held prior to the opening of the Swedish-Hungarian Innovation Days education-related event on Wednesday in Budapest.
Revised church law adopted by Parliament
Ministry of Human Resources, June 26, 2013 4:25 PM
On Wednesday Parliament passed new rules concerning the recognition of church organisations, following the decision of the Constitutional Court, which annulled some passages in the original church law. Most of the amended legislation's provisions will take effect on August 1, 2013.
European Roma Platform to Meet in Brussels
Ministry of Human Resources, June 26, 2013 2:54 PM
The European Platform for Roma Inclusion will hold its next meeting on Thursday under the auspices of the European Commission focusing on the opportunities of Roma children and youth, the involvement of Roma leaders, and process monitoring on the ground in the field of Roma inclusion and integration.
Employment of individuals with disabilities increased by 10 thousand
Ministry of Human Resources, June 20, 2013 4:31 PM
In the past two years, the employment of those living with disabilities within state-subsidised frameworks has increased to fifty-five thousand, Miklós Soltész, State Secretary for Social and Family Affairs of the Ministry for National Resources announced in Debrecen today.
Minister Balog on the past three years of the Ministry of Human Resources
Ministry of Human Resources, June 12, 2013 10:57 AM
Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog, assessing the Ministry's past three years of activity, stated that 70 billion forints had been tendered for social inclusion projects, with programmes such as Nő az esély (Chances are increasing) that aim to strengthen relations between Roma and non-Roma communities and other programs aimed at helping to encourage the education of Roma children.
The National Solidarity Donation Line and Account
Ministry of Human Resources, June 7, 2013 11:33 AM
The Government has established the National Solidarity Line and Account, through which donations can be sent.
Minister Balog receives high-ranking German Order of Merit
Ministry of Human Resources, May 28, 2013 5:33 PM
Zoltán Balog, Minister of Human Resources, Hungary, was presented with the third highest ranked German Order of Merit, the Grand Merit Cross with Star and Sash (Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern und Schulterband) by Dr. Matei I. Hoffmann, Ambassador to Hungary of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Hungary joins Eurotransplant
Ministry of Human Resources, May 27, 2013 4:01 PM
Hungary will join Eurotransplant, the international organisation responsible for coordinating organ transplants in its member countries, as a full member on July 1, under an agreement signed in Budapest on Monday.
Hungarian-Finnish Seminar on Roma Issues
Ministry of Human Resources, May 27, 2013 3:57 PM
Integration of the Roma is hopeless without the active participation of the minority, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog stated at the seminar entitled “The situation of Roma in Europe – Finnish and Hungarian Experiences, European Answers”, with the participation of Ambassador of Finland Pasi Tuominen, Finnish MP Pekka Haavisto, Head of the Finnish Education Agency Aulis Pitkälä, and President Henna Huttu and CEO Tino Varjola from the Fintiko Romano Forum.
Search for Hungarian mountaineers stopped
Ministry of Human Resources, May 23, 2013 5:41 PM
The search for Hungary’s most successful mountaineer of all time, Zsolt Erőss and his companion, Péter Kiss was stopped after the two disappeared at 8,000 metres while descending from Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world on the boundary between Nepal and India.