The motor park of the Hungarian National Ambulance and Emergency Service should be modernized with the addition of about 50 new emergency ambulance and some 100 new basic units by the end of the summer, thanks to the measures taken by the State Secretariat for Health.
Financing of specialist care will see improvement from January, as a decision was made on the 2011 financing of healthcare providers (in reference to the performance period between November 2010 and October 2011) based on a decree submitted by the Secretariat of State for Health of the Ministry of National Resources and approved by Government on 22 December 2010.
The Government decided to prolong the social gas and district heating supports till 30 April 2011, meaning that said supports will remain in force with the same conditions and amounts until the end of the heating season.
The national consultation initiated by the office of the under-secretary responsible for education in the Ministry of National Resources was successfully finished on 31 December, which had been launched by the ministry to discuss the documents on the concepts grounding the new acts on higher education, on public education and on the career path of pedagogues.
The official English translation of the Hungarian media law was finished yesterday and was sent by e-mail to every Hungarian diplomatic mission abroad and foreign missions accredited to Hungary.
The reply of Dr. Tibor Navracsics to the Vice President of the European Commission.
Act CLXXXV of 2010.
The Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran accredited to the UN in Vienna addressed a letter to several representations in Vienna, among them the delegation of the European Union and the Hungarian delegation, inviting the addressees to participate in a visit to unspecified Iranian nuclear facilities in January 2011.
A Volunteer Reserve System was established in Hungary on 1 January, 2011. At fifty-seven barracks and military establishments of the HDF security guards have been replaced by reservists. The Hungarian Defence Forces have started to set up a Volunteer Reserve Force with the authorization of the Parliament.
Fourteen soldiers took the oath at the barracks of HDF 5th ‘Istvan Bocskai’ Infantry Brigade on January 2. After the Changing of the Guard Ceremony the reservists took over service. The event was opened by Brigadier General Gábor Böröndi, Commander of HDF 5th Istvan Bocskai Infantry Brigade.
Sixty-nine reservists have entered into service at the barracks of HDF12th Arrabona Anti Aircraft Missile Regiment.
Reply to the criticisms expressed by the international media against the Media Act.
Heads of state and government, actors and sportsmen have travelled to Afghanistan to visit the troops from their homeland recently.
Criticism 1: The proposed levying of high fines may create the opportunity for the government to exert pressure on Hungarian media. The proposed legislation would allow sanctioning of the heads of the outlets violating the law (head or editor-in-chief of the publisher) as well. The National Radio and Television Commission (ORTT) also applied the sanctions of fines and temporary suspension of broadcasting - it did not, however, terminate the broadcasting right of outlets. Why was this drastic step needed?
Minister of Defence travelled to Afghanistan to visit the Hungarian soldiers on mission and conduct talks with the Provincial Governor.
Ten new American Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles are to be delivered to the HDF shortly. The new MRAPs to be used in Afghanistan are effective against roadside bomb attacks, Minister of Defence said.
Dr Zoltán József Tóth, Deputy State Secretary for Legal Affairs and Administration, MoD and Major General József Kovács, Commander of HDF Joint Force Command paid a four-day visit to the Hungarian Contingent of HDF UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus on 9 December. The delegation was received by Rear Admiral Mario Sánchez Debernardi, Commander of UNFICYP.
Government passed resolution 1148/2010. (VII. 8.) on the reconstruction of the buildings damaged in the extreme weather of May-June, 2010.
Since the amendment of the infringement act in August, the number of shop-lifting fell by 40 percent, according to the feedback of traders working in large towns – said Sándor Pintér, Minister of Interior, at the annual evaluation presidency meeting of the National Militia Association (NMA) on Friday.
The Ministry of Interior improves the crime prevention system in a measure of two billion Forints at several levels in the frame of the New Hungary Development Plan Social Renewal Operative Program accentuated project (TÁMOP 5.6.2).
A delegation headed by Administrative State Secretary Lajos Fodor visited the troops stationed in the Balkans from 14 to 17 December. During his stay Lajos Fodor had talks with Deputy Minister of Defence of Bosnia Herzegovina Mrs Marina Pendes and met the Commander of Sarajevo EUFOR HQ and the Multinational Battle Group-West.
On 14 December 2010 Pál Völner, Secretary of State for the Hungarian Minister of National Development, held talks in Paris with Thierry Mariani, Secretary of State for Transport for the French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, to discuss the programme and priorities of the Hungarian EU presidency.
The Ministry of Interior supports the Hungarian crime prevention program with two billion forints.
On 16 December 2010 the Ministry of Interior organized a Christmas celebration to orphans and widows of those who died while serving their country.
3-3 prize-winners received the Károly Kós architecture prizes in individual and corporate category in Duna Palace of Budapest. The acknowledgements were given by Péter Szaló Dr., country planning and building affairs deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Interior.