An ecumenical ceremony was held in Esztergom to honour Thomas Becket, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, which was followed by a conference on Christian values and European identity.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, founder of the Ferenc Puskás Football Academy, has been invited to the FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala in Zurich to be held today, the Prime Minister's spokesman Bertalan Havasi told Hungarian News Agency MTI.
Due to the illness of Foreign Minister János Martonyi, Parliamentary State Secretary Zsolt Németh represented the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the opening of the Hungarian–Italian Cultural Year at the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest on January 6.
Hungary's government is ready to sign its next strategic cooperation agreements with the local units of IBM, National Instruments, TATA and Nokia Siemens Networks, business daily Napi Gazdaság reported on Monday.
2013 is the Year of Central Europe for Hungary because Hungary took over the Presidency of the Central European Initiative (CEI) on January 1, and will take over the Presidency of the Visegrad Cooperation as of July1.
„We need to make Central Europe stronger, and we can achieve that through reinforcing our solidarity” – Zsolt Németh told the Public Radio concerning the prospects of Hungary’s neighbourhood policy.
According to this morning's information summary from the Central Statistical Office (KSH), positive trends are continuing with regard to employment figures, which play a determining role in government policy.
Some of the implementation regulations of the new Waste Management Act that came into force on January 1 have been issued. Among others, the new regulations concern the distribution of packaging materials, the returning and recycling of packaging materials, the receipt of electric and electronic equipment that has become waste, and the handling of cars that have been removed from circulation.
The Hungarian Government has been following a political and legislative agenda which aims at expanding employment, maintaining budget discipline at an economic level as well as equal burden-sharing within society.
The simplified naturalisation procedure was introduced on January 2, 2011, and 363,795 applications have been submitted to Budapest over the past two years, with a further few thousand still on the way, meaning a total of around 370 thousand applicants. Interest remains high, something that is mirrored in the number of appointments made.