After wide-ranging professional and public consultation on 9 November the public consultation process on the National Inclusion and Roma Strategy came to an end, and so it can soon be presented to Government – Zoltán Balog, Minister of State for Social Inclusion, announced at a regional seminar entitled ‘The long path of the National Roma Integration Strategies’ organised by the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice.
The Government made a decision on implementation of another of the points in the Széll Kálmán plan: bankruptcy proceedings and rules on winding up proceedings will be simplified, and as a result burdens on Hungarian businesses will be reduced, and the economic environment will be purged of inactive, inoperable companies.
The Government resolved to achieve the following aims with regard to home repossessions and auction procedures: reduction of court costs and burdens; introduction of e-administration and e-auctions for real estate; the closing of loopholes which lead to abuses in public auctions. Related legislative proposals will be put to parliament in the near future.
Minister for Foreign Affairs János Martonyi will attend the EU Foreign Affairs Council Meeting of Development Ministers to be held in Brussels on 14 November. The main issues on the agenda are future of the EU’s development policy, budget support, the EU common position for the Fourth High level Forum on Aid Effectiveness and the Horn of Africa.
Raoul Wallenberg, honorary citizen of Budapest, rescuer of ten thousands of Hungarian citizens would be one hundred years old in 2012. At its session on 2 November 2011 the Government has taken a decision according to which, on the occasion of the centennial, Hungary shall duly commemorate the rescuer Swedish diplomat in the context of the Raoul Wallenberg Year. On this occasion we shall recall this tragic period of the past in Hungary and at our foreign representations, and we shall also commemorate the deeds of other rescuers besides Wallenberg.
During his official visit to Vittoria, Sicily between November 1-4, MoD Parliamentary State Secretary Dr. István Simicskó attended a memorial service and Holy Mass celebrated in commemoration of the Hungarian troops who died in World War I.
The Hungarian State Holding Company (Magyar Nemzeti Vagyonkezelő Zrt., MNV) will make an offer for the purchase of Rába Holding Nyrt.'s shares. The Government, which took up office last year, has closed the period of mass privatisation and has committed to manage the national property in a responsible way to increase it. In accordance with long-term strategic objectives and economy boosting concepts, it wishes to strengthen government participation in vehicle manufacturing.
The United States of America may acknowledge that Hungary is free of Swine Fever by summer 2012, which in turn may boost Hungarian agricultural exports to across the Atlantic – Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas told the Hungarian news agency MTI in Washington, following talks with leaders of the American Department of Agriculture on Wednesday.
Tamás Iván Kovács, Deputy State Secretary for European Union and International Affairs of the Hungarian Ministry of National Development and Előd Both, head of the Hungarian Space Office represented Hungary at the 3rd European Space Research Conference in Lucca, Italy on 10 November 2011.
Minister Tamás Fellegi, Government Commissioner for the Coordination of Hungarian-Chinese Bilateral Relations conducts high-level negotiations with Chinese government and bank executives, businesspersons and investors in China between 9-17 November 2011.