Hungary has earmarked 268 billion forints (EUR 0.92bn) for upgrading and extending regional hospitals and outpatient clinics this year, the National Development Agency (NFÜ) said in a statement on Thursday.
The Government has appointed State Secretary in charge of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár to prepare and coordinate the professional tasks related to the settlement of the financial compensation claims of Jewish communities as well as cultural, educational, historical fact-revealing and tradition-keeping activities concerning Jewish communities.
District offices were reintroduced on 1 January (thirty years after the abolition of the system of administrative districts), within a new organisational structure and with new goals. There are 175 district offices outside Budapest, and twenty-three in the capital. These will carry out administrative tasks below county level.
Minister of Defence Csaba Hende said Hungary's military had been able to "maintain its capabilities" in 2012 amid limited financial possibilities.
In order to promote the social inclusion of people living on the streets, the Government is making a total of HUF 917 million available within the framework of the New Széchenyi Plan.
For formal reasons, Hungary's Constitutional Court has annulled some transitional provisions of the Fundamental Law, including the one on voter pre-registration.
A total of 370 000 people applied for Hungarian citizenship over the past two years and the rejection rate was below 1.5%, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén told Hungarian News Agency MTI on Wednesday.
The necessity of decisions can only be judged with appropriate objectivity by posterity Government Spokesperson András Giró-Szász said in an interview to Hungarian daily Magyar Hírlap.
2013 will be a Central European year in Hungary’s foreign policy as the country will serve as president of both the Visegrad Four Cooperation and the Central European Initiative (CEI).
The Hungarian Armed Forces will distribute drinking water in 123 towns from January 1, 2013, Maj.-Gen. László Domján, the Commander of the HDF Joint Force Command said on December 27 at a press conference in Csongrád County.