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Erzsébet Programme to continue also in 2013
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, January 8, 2013 2:17 PM
The Erzsébet Programme will also continue in 2013; this year, too, tens of thousands of socially disadvantaged children, pensioners, large families and individuals with disabilities may go on holiday to a number of destinations around the country under highly preferential terms.
Administrative district offices formed
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, January 3, 2013 12:10 PM
District offices were reintroduced on 1 January (thirty years after the abolition of the system of administrative districts), within a new organisational structure and with new goals. There are 175 district offices outside Budapest, and twenty-three in the capital. These will carry out administrative tasks below county level.
Public administration reform will also create budget stability for local governments
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, December 19, 2012 2:56 PM
Public administration reform in Hungary has reached a new phase. From January 2013 there will once again be administrative districts: these are the smallest geographical units of public administration, which used to be a traditional part of Hungarian public administration.
New heads of administrative units appointed
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, December 17, 2012 5:07 PM
The heads of Hungary's new district offices must be the embodiment of the state for citizens, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday.
Civil society organisations are also participating in the anti-corruption working group
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, December 17, 2012 3:20 PM
On Saturday civil society organisations took part in talks of the working group created by the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice as part of the public administration anti-corruption programme.
Now ninety-two civil society and professional organisations are participating in the creation of legislation
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, December 14, 2012 5:57 PM
The Ministry of Public Administration and Justice has signed another strategic partnership agreement with three civil society organisations, bringing the number of strategic partnerships to ninety-two.
The Government creates the Human Rights Roundtable together with civil society organisations
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, December 14, 2012 5:51 PM
The inaugural sitting has taken place of the Human Rights Roundtable, which will have a major role in the preparation of Hungary’s Human Rights Report. The Roundtable has been set up the Human Rights Working Group, which operates as an advisory body to the Government. Forty-five civil society organisations active in the field of human rights – several of them recognised internationally – are taking part in the Roundtable’s work. Next year thematic meetings will focus on twelve major areas.
Tibor Navracsics: ‘We must redefine Central Europe’
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, December 13, 2012 5:00 PM
At a conference in Veszprém on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics said we that we must rediscover and redefine Central Europe.
Next spring Hungary will be able to become a candidate member of the European Youth Forum
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, December 7, 2012 3:45 PM
It is expected that next spring the recently formed National Youth Council (NIT) will be able to take up membership candidate status within the European Youth Forum (YFJ). The NIT is the umbrella organisation for youth associations in Hungary.
Intensive Anti-Corruption Campaign Underway in Hungary
Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, December 6, 2012 9:57 AM
The leaders of the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, the Curia, the National Office for the Judiciary, the General Prosecutor's Office and the State Audit Office have been jointly assessing the anti-corruption measures of the past year. The organisations issued a joint declaration last year in which they undertook to achieve coordinated and effective action against corruption. Transparency International has also acknowledged an improvement of the situation.