Performs its duties under the direct control of the State Secretary.
Its purpose:
The department is under the direction of the Head of the Cabinet.
Within its sectoral training programme for the preparation of the EU Presidency, the Ministry of Defence organised its third presidency seminar on April 28 where well-known foreign and security policy experts outlined their opinions on the relation of the Hungarian national interests and the forthcoming Hungarian EU Presidency.
The Ministry of Defence – in order to foster the co-operation within the Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian Trio Presidency as well as to prepare for the Hungarian EU presidency – will delegate a liaison officer to the Belgian Ministry of Defence for the period of the Belgian Presidency in the second half of 2010.
The second round of the MoD’s sectoral Presidency training seminars was organised by the Defence Policy Department on 31st March, 2010.
As a part of its preparation for the Presidency – complementary to the central training programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister’s Office – the Ministry of Defence has developed a ‘CSDP EU Presidency Training Strategy’ for the staff of the Ministry. In order to prepare the members of the staff directly involved in the tasks of the Presidency the Ministry of Defence organises a series of Presidency seminars with the aim of providing information useful for presidency work by lectures given by Hungarian and foreign experts.
Hungary, as part of the Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian Trio Presidency, will take over the Presidency of the European Union in the first semester of 2011. The Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian team is the third Trio Presidency in the EU’s history; however, it is the first one to work in the framework provided by the Lisbon Treaty. The 18-months joint Trio Programme adopted by the Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian Trio Presidency ensures the achievement of long term goals beyond the scope of a single Presidency semester.