Those who concentrate on the events of WWII and ignore the crimes committed during the socialist regime fail to understand the 20th-century history of Europe, Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics told public radio on Sunday.
Hungarian state secretary of foreign affairs Zsolt Németh visited the Cluj (Kolozsvar) centre - under construction - of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania on Sunday.
Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog celebrated Saint Stephen's Day, Hungary's national holiday, with ethnic Hungarians in the Slovenian city of Lendava (Lendva) on Sunday.
This afternoon the Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas opens the Festival of Folk Arts in the Buda Royal Castle. The festival will last until 20 August, and is one of the numerous events taking place this weekend in Budapest. Every year tens of thousands of visitors take part in events on 20 August to mark Hungary’s foremost national holiday, which falls on the anniversary of the burial and canonisation of Hungary’s state founder and first king, Stephen I (969-1038). Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén has said in an interview that the most important message of this national holiday is the unity of the nation.
Lt Mariann Gömör at the dress rehearsal of the oath-taking ceremony, that will take place Monday morning in front of the Parliament Building.
The Government of Hungary is committed to protecting its citizens, regardless of their ethnic, cultural and social identity. It does not tolerate any kind of intimidation of minorities and ethnic groups. It is the Government’s responsibility to ensure that all in our country have opportunities for work and access to education, and that the conditions for peaceful coexistence within communities are strengthened. In the settlement of Devecser some people have irresponsibly attempted to undermine these conditions.
Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics has been officially notified by John Griffin, Australia’s ambassador to Budapest, that the Australian High Court will not allow the war crimes suspect Charles Zentai to be extradited to Hungary.
According to the latest data on foreign trade by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), all preliminary statistics signal that after May foreign trade turnover increased again in June. Calculated in euro (at current prices) exports were up by 5.6 percent and imports increased slightly less by 3 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, while in comparison to May 2011 both indicators were 0.3 percent higher (according to seasonally adjusted data).
Hungarian authorities have approved all necessary environmental permits for the construction of a 384 km stretch of the planned Nabucco gas pipeline that is to pass through Hungary, a move welcomed by the pipeline's consortium as a major step forward for the project.
Hungary and Romania differ in their views of how they treat each others' minority, a Hungarian official has said in reaction to related criticism by Romania's new foreign minister.