Domestic violence should be sanctioned more seriously than other acts of violence, said Minister for Human Resources Zoltán Balog.
The Minister received United States Ambassador to Hungary Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis at the Ministry of Rural Development. During their meeting, Sándor Fazekas and his team of experts briefed the Ambassador Kounalakis on the country's National Rural Development Strategy and presented the agriculture ministry's plans for the future.
The FAO/WHO Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS), the Codex Alimentarius Commission's select committee, will be meeting in Budapest on March 4-8, 2013. Experts representing over 50 countries are expected to take part at the event, and will be elaborating international documents that determine methods of food sampling and analysis.
According to State Secretary for Agricultural Economy György Czerván, it is a great success for Hungarian agricultural diplomacy that during the course of comprehensive negotiations with Canada in relation to an economic and trade treaty we succeeded in having sweet corn included on the list of so-called "sensitive products", meaning this product will enjoy added protection in future.
The Hortobágy Non-profit Company for Nature Conservation and Gene Preservation is to be transferred from the National Asset Management Inc. to the Hortobágy National Park (HNP), announced Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas on Monday in Hortobágy.
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén will be on an official visit to Israel and Bethlehem, in Palestinian Authority territory, between January 30 and February 2.
Corruption risks are moderate in Hungary’s defence sector – this is the result of a survey conducted by the London office of Transparency International, which was published after the analysis of the armed forces in 82 countries. Only nine countries are placed higher than Hungary in the Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index, and our country is in the moderate band together with other 16 nations.
Never again can it happen that somebody is excluded, deprived of all properties and murdered because of his or her religion or descent. Never again can it occur that the thousand-year-old Hungarian state cannot protect its citizens – Csaba Hende said at a commemoration held on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Uránia National Cinema.
The Council of Europe has approved the Government’s proposal for the settlement of the outstanding issues related to the media authority and the media council. As a result, drafting of the proposed amendment of the Media Law may now begin.
Deputy State Secretary Gergely Prőhle paid an official visit to Slovenia on January 28, where he held talks with Igor Senčar, State Secretary in charge of EU Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tone Kajzer, State Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office in charge of foreign relations and economic diplomacy, and Tadej Rupel, Director-General for European Policies.