More than six hundred young people visited the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice on Saturday, on the occasion of the first ever ReGeneráció Public Administration Open Day, in which participants were able to gain an insider’s view of the work of the Ministry.
‘We began with crisis communication, and continued in that mode until a few weeks ago’ – this is how Zoltán Kovács characterised the work so far of the Office of the Minister of State for Government Communication.
Minister of Defence Csaba Hende travelled to Warsaw on March 17 and delivered a speech at the 4th Euro-Atlantic Security Forum.
The European Parliament would like to have a greener and more “Central-European” Danube-strategy. This was approved on Thursday at the Strassbourg plenary session. The report supports the proposals of the European committee and that of the Member States’. This strategy does not have its own budget but it has to use the Union’s resources and coordinate it with the member states.
The troops of the MFO (Multinational Force and Observers) and the FMPU (Force Military Police Unit) deployed in Sinai have been rotated recently.
The Government’s intention is to prevent cases similar to the tragedy that happened at the “West Balkán” club in January, declared András Tállai, the State Secretary for the Local Governments Matters, at the press conference held on Friday together with the Government’s Spokeswomen Anna Nagy on introducing details from the Government’s Decree on “A safer operation of public places, clubs, and discos.”
An international seminar was held in Budapest on “Strengthening the cooperation in combating human trafficking in South-eastern Europe” on 17-18 March 2011. Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, the Ambassador of the United States in Budapest, Peter Widermann, the Director General of ICMPD, and Maria Grazia Giammarinaro the special representative of OSCI held a press conference in the Ministry of Interior on the results of the seminar.
The Council of Agricultural Ministers chaired by Mr. Sándor Fazekas approved the conclusions of the Hungarian Presidency concerning the future of the Common Agrarian Policy (CAP) by a majority of two thirds.
The ninth rotation of HDF PRT (Hungarian Defence Forces, Provincial Reconstruction Team) completed its duty and handed over authority to the tenth rotation on March 4.
On 14 March, 2011 Dr Tamás Fellegi, Minister of National Development, also in charge of climate change policy, chaired the climate change policy agenda items at the European Council’s environment policy meeting in Brussels.