Water gives life, and we give water. To make healthy drinking water available for every citizen of Hungary! The government has assigned us this task, and the Hungarian Defence Forces are ready to carry it out – Defence Minister Csaba Hende said in Kiskőrös on April 16.
On the occasion of Hungary’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorations including exhibition openings, conferences and history lessons were held throughout the country.
The Hungarian Government is awaiting the results of a probe by the European Commission into the fourth amendment to the Hungarian Fundamental Law, and is ready to discuss possible issues, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced at a press conference in Bilbao on Monday evening.
An American project on the safer building of communities aimed at initiating social debate began on Tuesday at the Central European University with the screening of a documentary and a conference. In addition to the US and Norwegian Ambassadors, the Ministry of Human Resources' Minister of State for Social Inclusion also gave a speech.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary was deeply saddened by the news of the Boston explosions. There cannot be any acceptable justification for this disgraceful attack against the participants and spectators of a popular sporting event. We would like to express our sympathy to the relatives of the victims and we wish those injured a rapid recovery.
The updated Convergence Programme covering the period 2013-2016 projects faster growth and a lower deficit for the upcoming years.
Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi sent a letter of condolence to US Secretary of State John Kerry, in which he condemned the bomb blasts on April 15 and expressed his deep sympathy to the victims of the tragic attacks, their families and the people of Boston, Massachusetts.
The Hungarian Government and Lego Manufacturing Ltd. signed a strategic partnership agreement today in Budapest.
Minister of State for Employment Policy Sándor Czomba emphasized at a two-day conference entitled Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue in Europe that the key objective of the Government is to maintain social dialogue – as underpinned by new regulations – as this enables society to recover from the crisis more easily.
The Government bill adopted on Wednesday aims to combat metal theft, eradicate illegal trade in metals, reduce the economic burdens of public service providers and to safeguard life and property more effectively. As a result of the new proposal, cooperation between authorities and supervisory efficiency will improve. In addition, the Government intends to aid the economic situation of legally operating metal trading enterprises.