After assuming HUF 29.7 billion in debt form the City of Pécs last year, the remaining HUF 14.4 billion will now also assumed by the Government – Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said.
The Baranya county prison will be less crowded due to the new quarters that were handed over in Pécs by Deputy State Secretary László Tóth and András Csóti, head of the Hungarian Prison Service.
The Council of the EU ministers of interior was held in Brussels on Thursday. The Hungarian delegation was led by Parliamentary State Secretary Károly Kontrát.
Vehicles, technical tools and protective gears have been donated to the Disaster Management Authority by the Government, in addition to which the voluntary fire fighter associations received financial support.
"The field of migration must always meet newer and newer challenges; when talking about migration one should never forget that this is a complex phenomenon", Deputy State Secretary for the European Union and International Relations Krisztina Berta said at the opening conference of the 12th national meeting of the European Migration Network.
The Government is assuming all local government debts, a total of HUF 1247 billion – Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said in Miskolc on Monday.
On Thursday the Ministry of Interior acknowledged the public work programmes of 53 local governments.
The European Union Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) plays a central role in the future of Hungary, the Hungarian Government's Commissioner for the co-ordination of EU Danube Strategy related tasks Balázs Medgyesy said on Tuesday in Budapest.
According to Parliamentary State Secretary Károly Kontrát, the number of border guards will increase by 600 by the end of the year. Their recruitment and is currently under way.
If needed, the Ministry of Interior is ready to double the number of the places available for homeless people. Currently there are 10 thousand places ready to be used by those in need but there will be no underpasses opened. – said Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér in an interview. He also touched upon the changes in public employment, the preparation of the law enforcement organizations for the winter months and the second round of the consolidation of local governments.