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Price of textbooks further reduced, more money left in families’ pockets

Ministry of Human Capacities, July 30, 2014 3:11 PM

The production of renewable textbooks is on schedule and institutions will receive all textbooks in time for the new school year, the Minister of State for Public Education announced.

NATO as the Central Topic of this Year’s Summer University

Ministry of Defence, July 30, 2014 2:38 PM

This year the Tisza Euro-Atlantic Summer University opened the 15th time on Monday, 28th July. After the successful last year it is Szolnok again – or to be more exact the HDF Peace Support Training Centre – which is tasked with hosting the series of lectures and seminars lasting until 1st August.

Employment rate hit new record high

Ministry of Finance, July 30, 2014 10:50 AM

According to the flash report of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) published this morning, in April-June 2014 the number of those in employment was 4 million 122 thousand, up by 190 thousand year-on-year.

Hungarian-Bosnian Agricultural Treaty Signed

Ministry of Agriculture, July 29, 2014 7:29 PM

Hungarian-Bosnian agricultural talks held in Budapest at the Ministry of Agriculture ended successfully on Tuesday with the signing of an Agricultural Treaty between the two countries. The Treaty was signed before members of the press by Hungary’s Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas and Bosnian Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Boris Tucic.

New designer drugs banned

Ministry of Human Capacities, July 29, 2014 12:15 PM

Beginning this week, four new psychoactive substances are being included the so-called C list as designer drugs; consequently, the police may initiate the respective proceedings following their confiscation.

Minister of State Soltész: Faith and charities help healing

Ministry of Human Capacities, July 29, 2014 10:41 AM

Apart from day-to-day medication, the spiritual factor, which was repressed for decades in Hungary, is also important and more and more people have realised to what extent the power of faith and religion or the work of non-governmental organisations can help healing, Minister of State for Social and Family Affairs Miklós Soltész from the Ministry of Human Resources said in Zalaszabar on Monday.

State Secretary Szijjártó signs strategic agreement with Schwarzmüller

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, July 29, 2014 9:44 AM

A strategic agreement was entered into between the Hungarian Government and Schwarzmüller Járműgyártó Kereskedelmi Kft. on Monday; the document was signed by Péter Szijjártó, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Nándor Bundschuh Nándor, the company's General Manager.

The era of welfare states is over

The Prime Minister, July 29, 2014 8:22 AM

At the Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that liberalism is a system of ideals that has a tangible power for social organisation. If people want to change what they don’t like in the world, they must come forward with a similarly mature system of ideals, he added.

The era of the work-based state is approaching

The Prime Minister, July 29, 2014 8:19 AM

The basis of the newly organised Hungarian state is a work-based society that is not liberal in nature. This was the topic of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech in Tusnádfürdő (Baile Tusnad, Romania) on Saturday, at the 25th Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp.

List of Hungaricums to Expand

Ministry of Agriculture, July 28, 2014 1:40 PM

Szerencs chocolate and Transylvanian chimney cakes could soon become Hungaricums, Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas said on Thursday in Budapest when he opened the first Hungaricum Weekend, a culture and gastronomy festival showcasing the treasures of the Hungarian nation.