Minister of State László Szászfalvi visited Subotica and Novi Sad on 6-8 April, where he met leaders from advocacy groups of Vojvodina Hungarians, and leaders from the Government of the Province of Vojvodina.
The government is treating issues relating to nationalities and the education of nationalities as a priority, said László Szászfalvi in a speech at the Croatian School in Budapest. He said that this shows itself, among other things, in the fact that the term ‘nationality’ is consistently being used in political discourse instead of the word ‘minority’.
In March, integrated customer services expanded their client base and generated a high level of interest among citizens. According to statistics, the government offices were especially popular with citizens.
The Hungarian Disaster Relief Commission has ruled on the allocation of HUF 1.5 billion, which will be used for the rebuilding, development and rehabilitation of Devecser, Kolontár and Somlóvásárhely. The rebuilding of the settlements stricken by the red sludge disaster is going according to plan, and is on schedule to be complete by the end of June.
At a consultation session arranged in Budapest on the draft Fundamental Law, Parliamentary Minister of State Bence Rétvári said that the Fundamental Law will create a fundamentally new standard in family values and in protection of the interests of the future generation: the young of today. The new fundamental law will express fundamental values, and will speak out in defence of life, the family and marriage.
The first public works programmes, which will serve as a model for later ones, are due to be announced on 1 July, and are due to start in September, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics at an economic forum in Veszprém on Thursday.
More than six hundred young people visited the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice on Saturday, on the occasion of the first ever ReGeneráció Public Administration Open Day, in which participants were able to gain an insider’s view of the work of the Ministry.
‘We began with crisis communication, and continued in that mode until a few weeks ago’ – this is how Zoltán Kovács characterised the work so far of the Office of the Minister of State for Government Communication.
On Thursday Tibor Navracsics, Minister of Public Administration and Justice, and István Havas, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary, signed a strategic partnership agreement promoting closer cooperation between the business sector and the Legislature.
The Minister of Public Administration and Justice spoke about the process of institutional restructuring in public administration and a change in perspective on the workforce at a staff forum in the Veszprém County Government Office. Dr. Tibor Navracsics also said that allegations of politically-inspired mass dismissals are not true.