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EU Ministers of Environmental Protection Bicycled all the way to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Ministry of Rural Development, March 25, 2011 12:37 PM

The European Union’s Ministers of Environmental Protection called attention to the issues of healthy lifestyle and environmental protection when they set out on bicycles from their hotel on Margaret Island to the conference on environmental protection held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The Fundamental Law will create a new standard in family values

Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, March 25, 2011 8:29 AM

At a consultation session arranged in Budapest on the draft Fundamental Law, Parliamentary Minister of State Bence Rétvári said that the Fundamental Law will create a fundamentally new standard in family values and in protection of the interests of the future generation: the young of today. The new fundamental law will express fundamental values, and will speak out in defence of life, the family and marriage.

Statement of the Ministry of Interior

Ministry of Interior, March 25, 2011 7:05 AM

Harmony among its citizenry is the foundation of Hungary’s economic and cultural development. Some irresponsible people have attempted to disrupt this harmony in Gyöngyöspata, and it has been reported that there are plans to make similar attempts in other settlements. Statement of the Press Department of Ministry of Interior.

Mr. Sándor Fazekas Minister of Rural Development Met This Afternoon with the European Commitee’s Commissioner of Enviromental Protection

Ministry of Rural Development, March 24, 2011 7:14 PM

Last week at the session of Ministrers of Enviromental Protection in Brussels Mr. Janez Potoćnik praised the Hungarian Presidensy’s hard work and pointed out that as a result of this they could agree on a law regulating the collecting and recycling of electronic waste.

Tibor Navracsics: public works programmes will be announced in July

Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, March 24, 2011 6:33 PM

The first public works programmes, which will serve as a model for later ones, are due to be announced on 1 July, and are due to start in September, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Justice Tibor Navracsics at an economic forum in Veszprém on Thursday.

European Union to Successfully Manage Energy-related Consequences of International Events

Ministry of National Development, March 24, 2011 11:04 AM

On 21 March 2011, in Brussels the extraordinary meeting of energy ministers convened by Minister of National Development Tamás Fellegi discussed the consequences of the North African events and the earthquake and tsunami that affected Japan. In the framework of the single agenda item, the participants discussed the current state of energy industry and the impacts of the recent events on the energy market. They exchanged views on the short, medium- and long-term responses required of the European Union and the Member States.

The Foreign Ministry’s Statement on the Release of Political Prisoners in Cuba

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, March 24, 2011 9:31 AM

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary welcomes that according to the agreement between the Cuban Roman Catholic Church and the Cuban Government the last two members of the 75 Cuban opposition activists, who had been arrested and sentenced to long prison term in 2003, have regained their freedom. We were very pleased to learn that on the 12th of March Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet also could return to his home, whom Viktor Orbán took under his personal patronage in 2007, and recently as Prime Minister of Hungary nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Press release - Destruction of cluster munitions in Erdőkertes

Ministry of Defence, March 22, 2011 4:27 PM

The informal meeting of Brussels-based PMG diplomats will be hosted by the Ministry of Defence in Budapest between 23 and 25 March.
Besides their informal talks they will observe the destruction of cluster munitions in Erdőkertes.

Water for the Cities, Cities for water

Ministry of Rural Development, March 22, 2011 3:03 PM

In compliance with the United Nations’ goals , the Ministry of Rural Development considers it important to celebrate the World Day of Water each year, since Europe’s largest sweet water resourse is to be found here, in the heart of the Carpathian basin, in Hungary - explained Mr. Sandor Fazekas, Minister of Rural Development at the opening ceremony of the World Day of Water.

Making family policy a European issue

Ministry of Human Resources, March 22, 2011 1:30 PM

The Hungarian Presidency aims to initiate a Union level debate on Europe’s demographic and family issues. Before the relevant ministerial meeting, Miklós Soltész, State Secretary for Social, Family and Youth Affairs of the Ministry for National Resources, also sought the opinion of non-governmental organisations on the matter in Budapest, on 17 March.