Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics has sent another letter to Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for Justice, related to the case of Francis Ciarán Tobin, who has been convicted of dangerous driving resulting in death, and whose extradition in Hungary was refused by the Irish authorities.
‘The state is good if it serves the interests of its citizens and has no external goal for which it uses its citizens to accomplish, in the way that the state did under the Arrow Cross and Communist dictatorships.’ This was the central message of Tibor Navracsics, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Justice, when he spoke on Friday at the Budapest College of Communication and Business, at the invitation of that institution and the European Federation of Journalists.
The European Commission supports the call for applications released by the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice for professional language training for judges and prosecutors.
Academy award-winning American film director Oliver Stone arrived in Budapest on Friday to hold a master class.
The next sitting of the Hungarian-Slovakian Intergovernmental Joint Committee will be in Visegrád on 18 October. Among the important topics to be discussed will be development of cross-border infrastructure, public transport, possible cooperation in healthcare, and European regional associations. The members of the Hungarian delegation met on Thursday in the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, at the invitation of the co-chairperson, Minister of State Erika Szabó.
Tibor Navracsics, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Justice, has met with Roman Kowalski, Polish ambassador to Budapest. They visited a Polish-Hungarian children’s history quiz, which was organised with the support of the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice.
The Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Council of Europe is meeting in Vienna between 19 and 21 September. The agenda of the Conference features the following: responses of justice to urban violence, juveniles as perpetrators and victims and organised groups and their ways of communicating.
The highly successful “Rebutton it! Hungarian is fashionable” programme has also reached Brussels where an exhibition of the clothes designed by Hungarian fashion designers will open today at the Hungarian Cultural Institute. The event is attached to Design September in Belgium.
The internationally recognised Magyary Zoltán Public Administration Development Programme has entered a new phase. The Government is reviewing the procedures of the authorities one after the other and is doing away with any unnecessary red tape.
Parliament will start debating the bill on the new Civil Code next week. The new Code is on the agenda of the parliamentary committees this week. Academician Lajos Vékás believes that the particular significance of the new Civil Code lies in the fact that this will be Hungary’s first civil code, created under democratic circumstances, to enter into force.