The United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UNODC) in cooperation with the Hungarian Government and the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) held a seminar in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 17 June 2011. The theme of the event was the exchange of international and regional experience concerning the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Strategy; the seminar focused on the Central Asian and African regions.
The energy ministers of the EU adopted Council conclusions at their meeting chaired by Minister for National Development Tamás Fellegi, held in Luxembourg on 10 June 2011 to review the Energy Efficiency Action Plan. The Energy Council was informed of the progress made during the Hungarian Presidency in the negotiations on the draft regulation about the transparency of wholesale energy markets.
Tibor Navracsics's exposé az the European Research Council, ERC conferenci in Budapest.
Seminar on Promoting Awareness of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and Efforts Made to Implement the Strategy at the National, Regional and International Levels organized by the UNODC and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Hungary.
‘It is the common goal of us all that there should be public administration which befriends citizens,’ said Tibor Navracsics, Minister of Public Administration and Justice on Tuesday at the presentation of the Zoltán Magyary Programme for the development of public administration.
The Hungarian Ministry of Defence and the Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University, in co-operation with the European Security and Defence College organised the 4th module of the 6th ESDC High Level Course, on 6-10 June 2011 in Budapest. The module was opened by the Minister of Defence, Csaba Hende.
In a resolution, the government has given the minister for national development, who is also responsible for the supervision of public assets, the green light to exercise an option to sell the government's minority shares in Budapest Airport Zrt. through the Hungarian State Holding Company (MNV Zrt.).
The EU-US Workshop on Terrorist Financing was held under the Hungarian Presidency in Budapest on June 6-7, 2011. The Workshop was opened by Roland Nátrán, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry for National Economy of Hungary and US Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis. Both the US Ambassador and the Deputy State Secretary emphasized the importance of EU-US cooperation in counteracting terrorism financing and highlighted the useful tradition of the annual EU-US Workshops.
‘We can be justly proud to have had such a scholar as Zoltán Magyary, who can still give us good guidance,’ said András Levente Gál in Tata, at a wreath-laying ceremony at Zoltán Magyary’s statue on Thursday.
As a sine qua non for the future of Hungary, everybody who can and will work should have a job. This is why a more simple and flexible employment legislation is necessary including particularly the rules on working time and fixed-term or temporary employment. Such an amendment is also one of the elements of the measures aimed at cutting red tape for employers.