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Naturalisation Procedure to be Simplified
Prime Minister’s Office, January 3, 2013 3:56 PM
The simplified naturalisation procedure was introduced on January 2, 2011, and 363,795 applications have been submitted to Budapest over the past two years, with a further few thousand still on the way, meaning a total of around 370 thousand applicants. Interest remains high, something that is mirrored in the number of appointments made.
János Lázár to coordinate the settlement of Jewish communities’ financial compensation claims
Prime Minister’s Office, January 3, 2013 12:44 PM
The Government has appointed State Secretary in charge of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár to prepare and coordinate the professional tasks related to the settlement of the financial compensation claims of Jewish communities as well as cultural, educational, historical fact-revealing and tradition-keeping activities concerning Jewish communities.
The Constitutional Court’s decision on transitional provisions
Prime Minister’s Office, January 2, 2013 4:40 PM
For formal reasons, Hungary's Constitutional Court has annulled some transitional provisions of the Fundamental Law, including the one on voter pre-registration.
370 000 people applied for Hungarian citizenship over the past two years
Prime Minister’s Office, January 2, 2013 4:38 PM
A total of 370 000 people applied for Hungarian citizenship over the past two years and the rejection rate was below 1.5%, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén told Hungarian News Agency MTI on Wednesday.
The country’s renewal shall be judged by future generations
Prime Minister’s Office, January 2, 2013 10:35 AM
The necessity of decisions can only be judged with appropriate objectivity by posterity Government Spokesperson András Giró-Szász said in an interview to Hungarian daily Magyar Hírlap.
Hungary “stands the storm of crisis”
Prime Minister’s Office, December 28, 2012 8:22 AM
Hungary is a strong nation, which "stands the storms of a crisis" more successfully than several other nations "of more fortunate history and stronger economic fundamentals", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview published in national daily Magyar Nemzet on December 24.
Education reform is the government’s greatest achievement, says the Prime Minister on public radio Kossuth
Prime Minister’s Office, December 27, 2012 4:06 PM
The reorganisation of the education system has been the greatest achievement of the government in the past two and a half years, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on public Kossuth Rádió on Sunday morning.
Student movements are a “great thing”
Prime Minister’s Office, December 21, 2012 12:25 PM
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday called student movements "a great thing", but stressed that perspective must be maintained.
The Government is to establish the Hungarian Holocaust 2014 Memorial Committee
Prime Minister’s Office, December 20, 2012 6:11 PM
2014 will be the 70th anniversary of the darkest chapter in the Hungarian holocaust, the extermination of Hungarian Jews. For reasons of mourning and remembrance, and to increase awareness of the tragic events of 1944, on the recommendation of Hungarian Jewish organisations and based on the proposal of the Prime Minister, the Government is to establish the Hungarian Holocaust Memorial 2014 Committee.
State Secretary Szijjártó in Moscow
Prime Minister’s Office, December 20, 2012 4:56 PM
With respect to energy security, Hungary will improve more in the next couple of years than it has during the past decades – said State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó by telephone to Hungarian news agency MTI, after negotiating with the Chief Executive Officer of Gazprom in Moscow.