The goal is to reduce the number and cost of documents being used, and to establish quality services through the integrated card – said Ministerial Commissioner Iván Vetési at a press conference presenting the concept behind the National Integrated Card System.
At the Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday evening the fashion show for the design competition Gombold újra! - Divat a magyar [Rethink/re-button! Magyar is the Mode] saw winning costumes combining punk, rock and features of Transdanubian Hungarian folk costume, skirts made using folk sewing techniques, and folk motifs brought to life with modern styling.
At the press conference held following the V4 Defence Ministers meeting in Levoča, Slovakia participants approved a proposal to set up a joint V4 EU battle group.
A Conference on Sustainable Energy for EU Crisis Management was held in the framework of 5th RENEXPO Central Europe in Budapest, on 5th and 6th May. The conference has been designed to provide a platform for participants to meet and share experience in the field of production and use of renewable energy.
Minister of Defence of the Hungarian Republic Csaba Hende and Austrian Defence Minister Norbert Darabos held talks at a border meeting in Szombathely on 6 May. Following the strategic principle of pooling and sharing Hungary is to offer its capabilities in three areas: air policing tasks, defence against IED (Improvised Explosives Devices) attacks and medical support, Csaba Hende said at the Szombathely meeting.
Central-Europe’s only simulation centre is operating under the aegis of HungaroControl from 10th of May in Budapest. The centre, equipped with state of the art technology, was opened by Mr. Pál Völner, Secretary of State responsible for infrastructure, Mr. Joe Sultana, COO of Directorate Network Management of EUROCONTROL (European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation), and Mr. Kornél Szepessy, CEO of HungaroControl (Hungarian Air Navigation Services) in the presence of the leaders of Air Navigation Services in the region. The aim of the Centre of Research, Development and Simulation (CRDS) is to aid the regional cooperation and the establishment of the Single European Sky.
‘We owe a lot to Andrzej Prewoźnik, and with this exhibition we are starting to repay our debt,’ said Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics at the House of Terror Museum’s exhibition entitled ‘There they lie, as if they were still alive...’, which was organised in memory of the Polish historian.
For Hungary the agreement on the establishment of a single Central European functional airspace block was signed by Deputy State Secretary for European Union and International Affairs Tamás Iván Kovács on 5 May 2011 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The participants of the Functional Airspace Block Central Europe (FAB CE) include Hungary, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The agreement is aimed at the creation of the legal and institutional background of the airspace block.
The process of creating a new constitution in 2011 was the first such legitimate process in the history of Hungary, said Róbert Répássy, Minister of State for Justice, during a public debate held on Saturday at the Faculty of Law at the University of Pécs.
Minister of Defence for Material Resources Ilija Pilipović paid an official visit to Hungary at the invitation of Mr Gábor Márki, Deputy State Secretary for Defence Economy on 20 and 21 April.