On 25 February, the victims of communism are commemorated all around Hungary: it was on this day in 1947 that the Secretary General of the Independent Smallholders’ Party, Béla Kovács was unlawfully arrested and deported to the Soviet Union.
The Government has launched the Youth Guarantee programme, a scheme to improve the job prospects of those under the age of 25 years in six so-called convergence regions of Hungary. Young jobseekers in the Central Hungary region are to join the programme in the coming weeks, Minister of State for Employment Sándor Czomba said at a press conference in Budapest.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in an interwiew with public broadcaster Kossuth Radio the government will soon consult with the parliamentary parties again to decide whether there is a real chance of Hungary increasing its military engagement in the fight against the Islamic State.
A total of 710 thousand Hungarians living in neighbouring countries have submitted applications for a simplified naturalization procedure so far and 670 thousand have taken the citizenship oath, said State Secretary for Nation Policy Árpád János Potápi at the National Assembly’s National Solidarity Committee meeting on Wednesday.
Minister of Justice László Trócsányi delivered the following welcoming remarks at the launching of the first training in the Training Centre of the Unified Patent Court in Budapest on 23 February 2015:
The advisory board of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) approved Hungary’s report on the National Qualifications Framework, Deputy State Secretary for Higher Education Zoltán Maruzsa announced on Wednesday.
Hungarian Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog and Turkish Minister for Labour and Social Affairs Faruk Celik signed a social security agreement on 24 February in Budapest.
By signing today’s agreement we consolidate a most valuable alliance, raising it to a new level, since scientific and technological development based on space activity may become one of the most important engines of value creation in Hungary, too, in the coming decades, Minister of State for Info-communication and Consumer Protection Ákos Kara said in Budapest on 24 February, 2015, on the occasion that Hungary joined the European Space Agency as a full-fledged member.
It is a question for the future how East and West will be able to cooperate effectively, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the Hungarian-Turkish business forum held in Budapest on Tuesday.
At a joint press conference held with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed that there is a need to develop a solution to ensure gas supply to Central Europe – and thus to Hungary – via Turkey.