The goal of the Hungarian government is to achieve full employment in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a local gathering in Ózd, in northern Hungary, on Thursday.
Speaking amid the ruins of the hall of a former metallurgical plant before placing a time capsule for a planned 2.5 billion forint digital archive, the Prime Minister said the world owed every person at least the opportunity to maintain themselves and their families from their own work. The question is whether "we can organise the country in such a way that this becomes reality," he said. Whereas unemployment has fallen to below 9 percent there is still work to do, the Prime Minister stated, adding that the aim of building "a Hungary in which everyone can make a living from wages" had not changed.
Prime Minister Orbán said the digital archive will serve the whole of Hungary. Some 1,000 degree-holders in 160 public institutions throughout the country are currently work on digitising various cultural assets to make them available from faraway locations.
The Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film Institute (MaNDA) was established on 6 June 2011 and its task, similarly to that of the former Hungarian National Film Archives, is to digitally record all Hungarian cultural assets, thus making them available through a central interface. A related cooperation agreement was signed with the city of Ózd in 2011 and the 7,000 square metre logistics centre complex will be a protected industrial monument.
(Prime Minister's Office)
