One of the aims of the current public education curriculum is to raise awareness about human rights, Minister ofHuman Capacities Zoltán Balog said at a conference organised on the occasion of Human Rights World Day.
According to Israel’s Chief Rabbi, Jewish public life is increasingly active in Hungary, the Press Office of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office stated following Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén’s official visit to Israel.
Hungary wishes not simply to observe, but to shape what is happening on Europe’s eastern borders, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared at the Summit of the Visegrád Four (V4) and the President of the Swiss Confederation on Tuesday in Bratislava (Slovakia).
On 9 December 2014, MVM Paks II. Atomerőmű Fejlesztő Zrt. (MVM Paks II Nuclear Reactor Development Closed Joint-Stock Company) and the Russian Joint-Stock Company Nizhny Novgorod Engineering Company Atomenergoproekt signed three implementation agreements for two new 1200 megawatt nuclear reactor units to be constructed at the Paks plant.
Deputy State Secretary Kristóf Altusz paid a visit to Lithuania on 8-9 December 2014.
According to Minister Péter Szijjártó, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone about the prospects of bilateral relations and opportunities of Hungarian-Russian energy cooperation following the cancellation of the South Stream gas pipeline project.
On Sunday, 7 December – the last day of his U.S. visit – Hungarian Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog met with members of the U.S. Hungarian community and Hungarian churches in Los Angeles.
Hungarian Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog attended and addressed the U.N. Transatlantic Summit “Strengthening the Family for Sustainable Development” in New York on 5 December.
Hungarian Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog presented the Grand Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit to renowned psychology professor Mihály Csíkszentmihályi in Los Angeles on 6 December.
The cash-flow surplus of the central sub system of the state budget was HUF 95.9bn, thus the fiscal shortfall narrowed by the end of November to HUF 713.7bn which constitutes 72.5 percent of the full-year target.