"We have held extremely successful talks with the Irish Minister on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy; the two countries are in agreement on most issues", said Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas following his meeting in Budapest with Irish Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Simon Coveney.
Justice ministers are having consultations on data protection, the facilitation of cross-border debt recovery and the freezing of proceeds of crime within the EU on the second day of the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting in Cyprus. Hungary is represented by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Public Administration and Justice Dr Tibor Navracsics.
Ministry of Interior organized law enforcement career camp for young Roma for the ninth time in the Adyliget Law Enforcement Secondary School in Nagykovácsi. During the five days the 47 participants have the opportunity to get an insight into the everyday professional activity of police, disaster management, and prosecution staff.
"Hungary's natural conditions are excellent for agricultural production, all requirements are given for us to provide high quality foods to the Chinese economy, which relies heavily on imports", said State Secretary Endre Kardeván at the opening of his two-day meeting with experts from the Chinese Quarantine Agency at the Hungarian Ministry of Rural Development. The meeting may lead to closer cooperation with the Chinese agency and to the opening of a regional office in Budapest.
The State Secretariat responsible for Religious, Ethnic and Civil Society Relations of the Ministry of Human Resources considers it outrageous and scandalous that anonymous persons vandalised 57 tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Kaposvár on Saturday night.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán continued his two-week long consultation series on Monday at the National Roma Self-Government (ORÖ).
The United States of America has expressed its appreciation of Hungary’s leading role in Afghanistan, Péter Szijjártó, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations said on MR1-Kossuth Hungarian public radio’s morning show called 180 Minutes.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Peter Szijjártó is leaving for a two-day visit to Azerbaijan on Sunday.
Informal meeting of home affairs ministers was held on 23 July 2012 in Nicosia and organised by the Cyprus EU Presidency. Head of the Hungarian delegation was Mr. Károly Kontrát, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Interior. The following topics were on the agenda:
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Public Administration and Justice Dr Tibor Navracsics will attend the European Union’s next two-day informal justice and home affairs meeting today and tomorrow which will, this time, be hosted by Cyprus that took over the EU Presidency as of July 2012.