Hungary's Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog and the National Council of Student Governments signed an interim agreement on Monday, 21 January.
"Our goal is to utilise all available European Union rural development funding in 2013. 93% of the more than HUF 1300 billion provided for the period 2007-2013 has been allocated, with 48% having been disbursed", stressed State Secretary for Rural Development Zsolt V: Németh at the 6th Axiál Agriculture Workshop in Hajdúszoboszló.
The European Union needs stable and prosperous regions within and outside its borders in order to successfully cope with the difficulties of the economic crisis – said Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh, on Tuesday.
The Ministry of Public Administration and Justice prepared a Green Book laying down ethical guidelines for state agencies. The document serves as an occupational code of ethics under the auspices of the Government’s fight against corruption.
The Ministry of Rural Development's Parliamentary State Secretary Gyula Budai is holding talks on the details of land regulation in Latvia on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The Hungarian and Latvian agriculture ministries are attempting to achieve the best possible land regulations for their countries in preparation for the expiry of the moratorium on land purchasing on May 1, 2014.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will pay a visit to Brussels and hold talks with EU leaders on 30 January, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szíjjártó announced on Tuesday.
The square was named after Márai in the framework of Kosice's 2013 European Capital of Culture programme, where the author’s statue stands since 2004. Hungary's Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog and his Slovakian colleague Dušan Čaplovič spoke at the ceremony.
The Grand Prize at the international Moonbots 2012 competition (Google Lunar X-Prize LEGO Mindstorms Challenge), which took place in December, was won by the Hungarian HungaroBots team comprising 16-17 year old students from the town of Sopron. Minister of State for Education Rózsa Hoffmann sent her congratulations to the talented youngsters in a letter.
The Justice and Home Affairs Ministers of EU Member States discussed the insolvency and data protection legislation at an informal meeting held on Friday in Dublin.
"International cooperation is beginning in the Danube region to reduce genetically modified (GMO) soy", said the Minister of Rural Development's State Secretary for Agricultural Economy György Czerván in Berlin on Saturday.