The reindustrialisation of Hungary is progressing at a good pace and the opening of an electronic waste recycling centre in Karcag also demonstrates this, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Tuesday at the opening event. The new 3.6 billion forint plant in Karcag will directly create 170 jobs, with a potential for an additional 400-500 jobs resulting from associated businesses in the future.
Ministerial Commissioner Piroska Szalai, responsible for the improvement of women’s job prospects, and Minister of State for Economic Regulation Kristóf Szatmáry consulted with businesswomen at an event organized by the Directorate for Social Relationships of Fidesz Hungarian Civic Union to promote cooperation and the discussion of issues of public interest between businesswomen, special interest groups and the Government.
MFA State Secretary Zsolt Németh held a lecture at a conference entitled „Jews in Hungary in the 20th and 21st Centuries”, hosted by the Gáspár Károli Calvinist University.
While decision making at the European Parliament is handled through fractions, for really important issues effective national advocacy is very important – said Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics in Szentendre, at the 12th National Meeting of the Model European Parliament this Tuesday.
The programme that offers knowledge, skills and opportunity to enable participation in the digital world is to be extended to the county seat of Nógrád early this autumn, Minister of State for Infocommunication Vilmos Vályi-Nagy announced in Miskolc on 18 March 2014 on the occasion that the first successful applicants were presented with the appliances they had been awarded within the framework of the Digital Community Programme.
The hundred-page summary of the National Transport Strategy (NTS), to be discussed by the Government in the near future, is based on analyses and preliminary studies of over 5 thousand pages, Minister of National Development Zsuzsa Németh said at the 15th Conference on Transport Development and Investment of the Association for Transport Sciences in Bükfürdő on 18 March, 2014.
Three new contracts were signed as part of the Women 40+ Programme, a scheme which assists women to gain the forty years of service required for retirement, Minister of State for Employment Sándor Czomba said at a press conference in Budapest.
Address by Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Zsolt Németh at the Conference on “Jewish People in Hungary in the 20th and 21th Centuries” Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, 18 March 2014
Published by the European Commission this Monday, the Justice Scoreboard spectacularly confirms the results of the Hungarian judicial reform – told Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics, Deputy Prime Minister to the Hungarian News Agency.
If necessary, the number of Russians and Ukrainians facing visa bans and asset freezes in view of their roles in the Ukrainian crisis may be expanded, the Hungarian Foreign Minister said in Brussels on Monday after the EU foreign ministers had decided to impose such sanctions on 21 Russians and Ukrainians.