Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics began an official visit to Washington, D.C., on Monday.
As part of the government-level anti-corruption programme, the Government decided in 2012 that Hungary will join the Open Government Partnership and will thereby make a number of further undertakings in the fight against corruption and for the implementation of a more transparent system of public administration.
The Ministry of Public Administration and Justice prepared a Green Book laying down ethical guidelines for state agencies. The document serves as an occupational code of ethics under the auspices of the Government’s fight against corruption.
The Justice and Home Affairs Ministers of EU Member States discussed the insolvency and data protection legislation at an informal meeting held on Friday in Dublin.
The anti-corruption task force held another meeting on Friday at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice. At this round of consultations conducted with the participation of civil organisations, including representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce, the Budapest Corvinus University, the Budapest Institute, the Forum of Civic Cooperation, the Council of Geopolitics Foundation, the Magyar Conquest 2000 Society, the Joint Venture Alliance, the K-Monitor Public Association, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Transparency International Hungary and átlásztó.hu, attendees discussed issues concerning the protection of whistleblowers.
Hungary maintains good relations with the European Union and there are continuous coordination talks despite some disputes over regulations affecting the retirement of judges, Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics told Hungarian News Agency MTI in an interview.
We shall commemorate the Deportation of Germans in Hungary on Saturday, 19 January.
The Campus Hungary Programme designed to enhance the international competitiveness of higher education was launched on 15 January 2013 in Budapest. Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics said at the conference held on this occasion that, with the launch of this programme, Hungary has returned to the centre of Europe’s intellectual domain also on the level of day-to-day life.
The task force set up by Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics, Minister of the Interior Sándor Pintér and Minister for Human Resources Zoltán Balog in December 2011 will continue its efforts in the interest of creating child-friendly justice administration.
The Minister for Public Administration and Justice explained the launching of the district system on ATV television's Egyenes beszéd ("Straight Talk") programme on Monday. With relation to Zsolt Bayer's article on the Roma, published on Saturday, the Deputy Prime Minister stated that in his opinion the article makes fun of every democratic community principle that we believe in.