At a sitting of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg yesterday, Dr. Péter Mihalovics, ministerial commissioner at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, gave an address on the responsibility of governments and education, public education and alternative education systems in dealing with problems and challenges affecting young people.
According to the latest statistics of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), tourist traffic at accommodation establishments continued to increase in February 2013: the number of guests and tourism nights both signal higher demand in the sector. In the second month of the year 426 thousand guests were registered at accommodation establishments who spent altogether 988 thousand tourism nights in Hungary. These figures constitute an increase of 9.5 percent and 6.2 percent, respectively, compared to the corresponding period of last year.
"The Office of the Prime Minister is preparing a list of items in Hungarian museums that are inarguably not the property of the state so that they may be returned to their rightful owners", announced János Lázár on Tuesday in Keszthely, where he presented 86 works of art that had until now been stored in museums to the heirs of the Sigray family.
On Wednesday, the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted to put the proposal on launching a monitoring procedure against Hungary on the agenda of the next session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The committee members supported the motion in a vote of 21 to 20. The circumstances of the Committee's decision raise serious procedural and substantial concerns.
On 23 April 2013, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) held its first auction of the last marketable Hungarian EUA emission units listed in the second trading period of the emission trading system of the European Union.
Lecture by Zsolt Németh,
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary
at the event “US-Hungary Military Cooperation”, Hungarian Institute for International Affairs,
Budapest, April 22, 2013.
Developing a labour-based economy will be key to boosting living standards in the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday.
Hungary wants to step up energy cooperation with Moldova, State Secretary Péter Szijjártó said on Wednesday. At a press conference after a meeting of the Hungary-Moldova joint economic committee, he stated that Moldovan electricity projects and linking Moldova’s network to European Union countries are areas Hungarian electricity provider MVM is interested in.
This year’s first Salzburg Forum was organized by Poland in Warsaw on 23-24 April. At the ministerial conference, Hungary was represented by Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér.
The NATO-Russian Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Brussels on April 23 took place in a very good mood, which is a sign that the relations between the North Atlantic Alliance and Moscow are improving –Hungarian Foreign Minister János Martonyi said.