The test period of a video-based sign language interpretation service was launched on Monday with the objective of facilitating communication for people with hearing impairments as well as to make possible the employment of more people with disabilities, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said.
In light of data from the end of February, the number of newly registered, unsubsidized jobs in the private sector increased by 70 percent month-on-month and it was up by some 50 percent year-on-year.
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi and his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski reopened Hungary's consulate general in Cracow on Friday.
The western Hungarian town of Celldömölk received a new Mercedes Sprinter ambulance on Friday within the framework of the National Ambulance Service’s (OMSZ) EU-funded modernisation programme. The official delivery was attended by Minister of State for Health Miklós Szócska and OMSZ General Director Béla Burány.
The Hungarian capital’s second largest concert hall, the Vigadó, was officially reopened on Friday following extensive restoration, with the ceremony attended by Hungarian President János Áder, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Mayor of Budapest István Tarlós. Minister for Human Resources Zoltán Balog presented the symbolic key to the building to György Fekete, President of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA).
Minister of State for Infrastructure Pál Völner headed the Hungarian delegation at the Brussels meeting of the transport ministries of EU Member States on 14 March, 2014. The participants approved a general approach to the regulation proposal on the European Railway Agency (ERA).
The national flag was hoisted in front of Parliament on Saturday morning, as the start of state celebrations marking the anniversary of Hungary's revolution that broke out on 15 March 1848. President János Áder, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Speaker of Parliament László Kövér, as well as members of the Government, representatives of political parties and diplomats attended the ceremony.
Senior officials of the transport ministries of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia signed a memorandum on establishing a high-level working group in Brussels on 14 March, 2014.
Any European sanctions introduced against Russia would have the gravest impact on the Visegrad Group countries, Foreign Minister János Martonyi declared after a meeting of the V4 ministers with the German Foreign Minister in Budapest on Thursday.
The Ministry for National Economy (NGM) plans to increase the number of electric cars in Hungary through tax incentives and support. The package of measures, bearing the name of the world-famous inventor-engineer Ányos Jedlik, is currently being prepared at the Ministry, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at a press conference in Budapest.