Hungarian-Turkish relations have strong roots dating back several decades and have a promising future as well, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a Turkish-Hungarian business forum organised in Ankara.
The Castle Baths on Gyula have been restored at a cost of almost HUF 1.2bn (some 4 million euros) and with the opening of the new AquaPalota (AquaPalace) water park on 6300 sqr metres, with 5 new pools and several new amenities, the facility has become an all-year bathing complex.
MÁV Symphony Orchestra gave an Advent charity concert under the title Christmas! in honour of the elderly at Liszt Ferenc Music Academy on 17 December, 2013. The main patron of the event was Minister of National Development Zsuzsa Németh; Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs of MND János Fónagy delivered an address at the concert.
The building plots for the 2015 World Exhibition in Milan have been distributed.
Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog handed over the Award for Nationalities to four organizations and seven individuals on Monday, in the National Museum.
On December 18, Parliamentary State Secretary Zsolt Németh of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared that Hungary would contribute half a million US dollars to the renovation of educational and cultural institutions in the Transcarpathia region of Ukraine.
According to the calculation of the Ministry for National Economy, the extension of the family tax allowance system will leave some HUF 50bn more at 270 thousand households, and thus the Hungarian family-friendly taxation system will support even more families with children, Minister of State for Taxation and Financial Affairs Gábor Orbán said at a press conference in Budapest.
As of January, victims may reveal the names of secret agents who reported on them during the communist era, announced Minister of State Bence Rétvári in Parliament on Tuesday after the National Assembly has adopted the proposal on setting up the Commission on National Remembrance.
Cultural ties are the solid core of relations between France and Hungary, Gergely Prőhle, Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in Paris on Thursday.
Zoltán Kovács, Minister of State for Social Inclusion at the Ministry of Human Resources had talks on Roma inclusion policy in Berlin on Tuesday with Romani Rose, head of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and Erika Steinbach, Member of Parliament for the CDU party and spokeswoman of the Bundestag’s parliamentary group on human rights and humanitarian aid.