Norwegian Minister of Defence Grete Faremo paid a two-day official visit to Budapest.
On 10 January 2011 Minister for National Development Dr. Tamás Fellegi had talks with French Minister of Industry, Energy and Digital Economy, Eric Besson and Minister of Environment Protection, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet.
Hungary attaches outstanding significance to maintaining the weight and structure of Cohesion Policy during its Presidency,
Smart spectrum strategy needed for further telecoms growth key EU institutional players agree
The 2010 budget constructed and left behind by the Socialist government is characterized by overestimated revenues, underestimated expenditures and, thus, an unrealistic deficit target. The landmines hidden in this year‟s budget have been overlooked by, among other financial organizations, the Fiscal Council. The 500bn HUF “problem” has been corrected by the extraordinary measures taken by the Government of National Issues to keep the deficit target of 3.8, which is an exceptionally low figure in the EU.
The motor park of the Hungarian National Ambulance and Emergency Service should be modernized with the addition of about 50 new emergency ambulance and some 100 new basic units by the end of the summer, thanks to the measures taken by the State Secretariat for Health.
Financing of specialist care will see improvement from January, as a decision was made on the 2011 financing of healthcare providers (in reference to the performance period between November 2010 and October 2011) based on a decree submitted by the Secretariat of State for Health of the Ministry of National Resources and approved by Government on 22 December 2010.
The Government decided to prolong the social gas and district heating supports till 30 April 2011, meaning that said supports will remain in force with the same conditions and amounts until the end of the heating season.
The national consultation initiated by the office of the under-secretary responsible for education in the Ministry of National Resources was successfully finished on 31 December, which had been launched by the ministry to discuss the documents on the concepts grounding the new acts on higher education, on public education and on the career path of pedagogues.
The official English translation of the Hungarian media law was finished yesterday and was sent by e-mail to every Hungarian diplomatic mission abroad and foreign missions accredited to Hungary.