The Press Office of the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice said that the Ministry has taken note of the Hungarian Constitutional Court’s decision on oversight of print and online news media, issued on Tuesday. Proposed amendments to media regulation are being prepared, and will be submitted to the Hungarian parliament in May.
Cross-border legal procedures are increasingly common at EU level. To deal with these effectively, cooperation between the justice systems of Member States is indispensable. To assist the information flow necessary for this, an e-justice communication system based on transfer of data over the Internet has been created.
Hungary is joining the international Open Government Declaration, Bence Rétvári, Minister of State for Public Administration and Justice said. The purpose of the programme is to achieve transparent, effective and accountable government and to initiate commitments designed to facilitate measures against corruption with the cooperation of governments and the civil sector.
Bence Rétvári, Minister of State for Public Administration and Justice announced the European Commission requests information on the church legislation from the Hungarian authorities, and this information request was not initiated by the Commission but by a group of Hungarian opposition Members of Parliament.
On 16 April, Monday, victims of the Holocaust in Hungary are remembered throughout the country. It was on this day in 1944 that the setting up of the first ghettos began in the Trans-Carpathian region of Hungary.
On 11 April 2012, the general debate on administrative districts began in Parliament. In her opening speech, Erika Szabó laid emphasis on the essence of the system, pointing out that in all cases the citizen must be placed at the centre of decisions, because a key element of the process is the creation of a real service-provider state.
Tibor Navracsics, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Justice, gave an address at the opening of an exhibition entitled “Executed cities – Poznań-Budapest, 1956 / Szétlőtt városok – Poznań-Budapest 1956 / Rozstrzelane miasta – Poznań-Budapest, 1956”.
As a matter of principle, and as laid out in the new Fundamental Law and Hungarian legislation, the Government of Hungary condemns in the strongest possible terms all statements directed – either explicitly or implicitly – against any social group or minority living in Hungary.
The Human Rights Working Group was formed with the participation of twelve ministers of state. The Chairman is Zoltán Balog, Minister of State for Social Inclusion.
Following a strategic agreement between the Hungarian Government and the OECD, the Zoltán Magyary Programme could become an international model for the development of public administration.