The success of Hungary’s national strategy largely hinges on whether Hungarians living within the Carpathian Basin can embrace Hungarian language education as a common cause, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said at a Budapest conference on Friday.
Those in need should be given all possible assistance and every opportunity to escape poverty, Minister of State for Social Affairs and Inclusion Károly Czibere said at a press conference held on Friday to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty in one of the country’s poorest areas, the György housing estate of the southwest Hungarian city of Pécs.
Further joint action needs to be taken to combat illegal migration and human trafficking – Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said on Friday in Budapest following a three-party meeting with his Austrian and Serbian counterparts.
The people of Hungary have performed well in recent years and everyone would like to work with the kind of labour and invest in the kind of secure and calculable environment that Hungary has to offer, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday in Milan. The Prime Minister was attending the two-day Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), which ended on Friday with the participation of 53 heads of state.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of heads of state and government in Milan on Friday, during which he held bilateral talks with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak to discuss, amongst others, the rapid establishment of a joint Hungarian-Kazakh investment fund and the reopening of the Hungarian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
A press conference was held in Budapest on Thursday to mark World Food Day, with representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, the FAO and non-governmental organisations.
It is only possible to exit poverty through work and education, and accordingly since it was formed the Government has introduced several measures aimed at creating a work-based economy, the Ministry of Human Capacities’ Parliamentary State Secretary Bence Rétvári told kormany.hu on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Hungarian-Swiss economic cooperation is free from problems, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Didier Burkhalter, President of the Swiss Confederation concluded at their meeting held in Milan on Friday.
The Hungarian Government will do everything possible to protect the Land Act, which includes several elements from the laws of other European countries, Minister of State for Public Administration Attila István Simon of the Ministry of Agriculture said on Thursday in Budapest.
Governor of Burgenland province Hans Niessl and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy Levente Magyar signed a Declaration of Intent on cross-border transport development projects between Hungary and Burgenland on Wednesday in Budapest.