In April of 2013 Hungarian artists will be painting colourful and cheerful pictures on the walls of the Démétér-house paediatrics department on the territory of Szent László Hospital in Budapest to make children who have to stay at the hospital during their medical treatment happier. This action was announced at a conference today by His Excellency Mr Jean-Francois Paroz, the Ambassador of Switzerland in Hungary and Dr. Albert Royaards, founder and board chairman of the Smiling Hospital Foundation.
Key features of financial processes regarding the central sub sector of the state budget in December 2012 and preliminary data for the year have been published today.
The Prime Minister and several members of the Government plan to visit China this year, Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi said on Tuesday.
A László Hudec Memorial Room dedicated to the Hungarian on the 120th anniversary of his birth architect was opened in Shanghai, where he designed more than sixty buildings.
"The reorganisation of the education system is one of the greatest acts of the past two and a half years", stated Viktor Orbán in an interview on Kossuth Radio's Sunday news and debate programme Vasárnapi újság on December 23. According to the Prime Minister, the education system must be run in and made to operate smoothly during 2013. He also stated that there is hope that the economy will begin to grow next year and there is a good chance that the plan to create one million new jobs over ten years may be realised.
The Erzsébet Programme will also continue in 2013; this year, too, tens of thousands of socially disadvantaged children, pensioners, large families and individuals with disabilities may go on holiday to a number of destinations around the country under highly preferential terms.
The Government will work towards an agreement with students on higher education and will make the best use of tight resources both to run the system and to develop it, the Minister of State for Education Rózsa Hoffmann said in an interview for commercial broadcaster Inforádió on Monday evening.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will attend an extraordinary summit of the European People's Party in Limassol on Friday, Bertalan Havasi, the press chief of the prime minister, told Hungarian News Agency MTI on Tuesday.
The Minister of Human Resources is to continue consultations with the National Union of Students (HÖOK) on Friday, January 11.
Airport Debrecen (AD) registered an important rise in its passenger traffic last year due to the fact that Hungary’s low-cost airline Wizzair has launched scheduled flights from the airport to several European destinations, including Eindhoven, Milan and London.