"In the modern world, order and security are among the most important social values", said Minister of State Károly Kontrát in Tamási, Tolna County, where he was inaugurating a new fire station.
Zsolt Németh, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had talks with leaders of Ukraine's Transcarpathian county on strategic cooperation, infrastructure development along the Hungary-Ukraine border, issues around the ethnic Hungarian minority, and energy, in Uzhhorod on Wednesday.
The Administrative Board of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) held its first session this year on 19 March, 2014. The session was attended by Minister of State for Energy Affairs of the Ministry of National Development Pál Kovács, newly appointed alternate member of the board.
Experiences show that the “workfare instead of welfare” concept has been working, Minister of State for Employment Sándor Czomba and Fidesz Communications Chief and Mayor of Eighth District of Budapest Máté Kocsis stressed at a joint press conference on employment held in Budapest.
The Faculty for Applied Humanities and Pedagogy of the St. Stephen University of Szarvas, eastern Hungary held a conference entitled “European National and Minority Identity and Culture” on Wednesday, at which Deputy State Secretary for Minority and Civil Social Relations Csaba Latorcai gave an overview of the legal changes affecting national minorities in Hungary.
In the past few years the Government has revived Hungarian healthcare services which were swamped in debt, disorganised and in a serious crisis, Minister of State for Health Miklós Szócska said in the western Hungarian town of Körmend.
Hungary has opened its doors to all investors who are willing to contribute to the economic growth of the country. This has been underlined many times by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán throughout the country at several factory foundation stone laying ceremonies and plant inaugurations during the last month.
The Government is planning to assist the development of start-ups with HUF 140bn of EU resources, of which the larger part, some HUF 110bn, will be provided in the form of financial instruments, Minister of State Zoltán Cséfalvay said at a professional conference in Budapest.
There is no better European Union response to the Ukrainian crisis than the fact that the previously drafted political chapters of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement are to be signed at the meeting of the European Council next Friday - said MFA Minister of State in charge of EU Affairs Enikő Győri at a press briefing held on 19 March 2014.
Hungary's government is striving to ensure that not only households have access to the cheapest energy in Europe but industry too, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Budapest on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, confirming its position concerning the referendum held in Crimea on March 16, regards the changing of the legal status of Crimea as illegitimate and unlawful.
In an interview to CNN's Richard Quest broadcast on Wednesday, Foreign Minister János Martonyi, when asked if Budapest would back tougher sanctions on the Russians in case the current ones did not succeed, responded that Hungary would expect EU member states to share the burden of the consequences fairly if tougher sanctions were introduced.
One of the two FLIRT units that have recently arrived in Hungary has been presented to the public for the first time by representatives of the Ministry of National Development, MÁV-START Ltd. and Stadler Ltd. at the refurbished railway station of Kápolnásnyék today. Following strict technical and authority control and certification, the first new multiple unit is expected to be put into use in traffic this autumn. The forty-two new FLIRT trains to be received by autumn are to be used along the Budapest suburban railway lines. The new multiple units offer travel conditions meeting the requirements of our time; through their operation, the railway company is to save billions at the annual level.
"The Hungarian Government takes the view that, in addition to the application of human rights principles, the social inclusion of the Roma can only be achieved with programmes that can be implemented in practice", Minister of State for Social Inclusion Zoltán Kovács, who is attending the international Roma affairs conference The Conscience of Europe in Helsinki, stated on Tuesday.
"The foundation stones of our first university remind us that the building work should continue on both a intellectual and spiritual level, forging Hungarians into a community of people who hold their heads high, are proud of their thousand-year culture and history and who look towards the future with realistic hopes", Parliamentary State Secretary András Doncsev from the Ministry for Human Resources said on Tuesday at the inauguration of the Medieval University building in the southwest Hungarian city of Pécs.
Minister of State for Employment Sándor Czomba, MP Péter Ágh (Fidesz-KDNP) and Hermann Binder, owner of the company, laid down the foundation stone of the latest, 2250sqm production facility of Binder Ltd in Csönge, Vas County.
It is in Hungary's vital interest to cooperate with foreign investors that provide new jobs in the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday, opening the third production hall of RAFI Hungaria in Mezőtúr. The 840 million forint expansion had a 240 million government subsidy, he added.
Péter Wintermantel, MFA Deputy State Secretary for Global Affairs, hosted a farewell lunch for outgoing Malaysian Ambassador Kamilan Makson on March 18, 2014.
In view of mounting tension in Ukraine, EU member states should share the burden of the crisis fairly, Hungary's Minister of State for EU Affairs Enikő Győri declared in Brussels on Tuesday.
MFA Deputy State Secretary for Global Affairs Péter Wintermantel received Co-Chairman of the Hungarian-Jordanian Joint Economic Committee and Secretary-General of the Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation Saleh Al-Kharabsheh on 18 March 2014.