The Ministry of National Economy proposed to waive social contributions after every worker under the age of 25, Deputy State Secretary Sándor Czomba in charge of employment policy said on Wednesday.
The highly successful “Rebutton it! Hungarian is fashionable” programme has also reached Brussels where an exhibition of the clothes designed by Hungarian fashion designers will open today at the Hungarian Cultural Institute. The event is attached to Design September in Belgium.
The internationally recognised Magyary Zoltán Public Administration Development Programme has entered a new phase. The Government is reviewing the procedures of the authorities one after the other and is doing away with any unnecessary red tape.
Parliament will start debating the bill on the new Civil Code next week. The new Code is on the agenda of the parliamentary committees this week. Academician Lajos Vékás believes that the particular significance of the new Civil Code lies in the fact that this will be Hungary’s first civil code, created under democratic circumstances, to enter into force.
On Tuesday, 18 September the United States Department of Defense issued a news release regarding Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende’s visit to Washington DC. The news release praises Hungary’s role in Afghanistan and the bilateral defense cooperation, with special regard to the upcoming 20th anniversary of the State Partnership Program between the Hungarian Defense Forces and the Ohio National Guard.
Fidesz-KDNP’s proposal for new electoral procedures was submitted to Parliament on Tuesday, 18 September. If Parliament votes in favour of the proposal, the law will be sent to the Constitutional Court for preliminary norm control, to make sure it is in line with the country’s Fundamental Law, before the President of Hungary signs it.
On the occasion of the Jewish New Year, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Jewish community. The 5773rd Jewish New Year – Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew – began at the end of last week.
On the invitation of Minister of State for Climate Change and Energy Pál Kovács and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent UN Representative Balázs Csuday, President of the Indonesian Atomic Agency As Natio Lasman and his deputies visited the Paks Nuclear Power Plant on 15 September. The purpose of the visit was to strengthen professional relations between the two countries and map cooperation opportunities in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Minister of State of the Prime Minister's Office János Lázár, Deputy Head of ruling party Fidesz Lajos Kósa and Christian Democrat MP Imre Vejkey submitted the joint proposal of the Fidesz-KDNP coalition for new electoral procedures to the National Assembly on Tuesday, 18 September.
Criminal legal aid between Hungary and other Member States of the European Union will become swifter, the detection of crimes will become more effective and in consequence, local criminal proceedings requiring international cooperation will be closed faster. Additionally, judicial cooperation in criminal cases will become more efficient in the wake of the bill on criminal cooperation with the Member States of the EU which Parliament will begin to debate today.