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More and more Transcarpathian people should become Hungarian citizens

Prime Minister’s Office, August 5, 2015 2:16 PM

In Parliament on Wednesday Deputy Prime Minister responsible for Hungarian Communities Abroad Zsolt Semjén received 55 Hungarian children from Transcarpathia. Following the reception, he urged Hungarians from Transcarpathia to assume Hungarian citizenship.

The Government will provide everything to ensure security in Martonfa and Sormás

Ministry of Interior, August 4, 2015 5:58 PM

Following talks with the mayors of Martonfa (Baranya County) and Sormás (Zala County), where two new migrant reception centres are to be established, Minister of State for Local Government at the Ministry of Interior Tibor Pogácsás told Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday that the Government will do everything to maintain public security and normal everyday life in the two settlements.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to attend World Aquatics Championships in Kazan

The Prime Minister, August 4, 2015 3:08 PM

Press Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office Bertalan Havasi has informed kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will be travelling to Kazan at the weekend to receive the FINA flag on the last day of the world championships. At every championships the flag is transferred to the subsequent host.

The Roma must be assisted in their advancement

Prime Minister’s Office, August 3, 2015 6:51 PM

Roma people must be assisted in their advancement, Secretary of State Szabolcs Ferenc Takács of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Sunday at the commemoration organised by the Roma Civic Association (RPT) at the Roma Historical, Cultural, Educational and Holocaust Centre on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the Roma Holocaust.

Petőfi Sándor Programme launched to help dispersed Hungarian communities in the Carpathian Basin

Prime Minister’s Office, August 3, 2015 5:29 PM

Speaking at the “Magyarság Háza” building in Budapest on Monday at the launch of the education week of the Petőfi Sándor Programme to assist dispersed Hungarian communities in the Carpathian Basin, Minister of State for National Policy Árpád János Potápi pointed out that we must do everything possible to halt population decline in dispersed Hungarian communities, and to reverse the process.

Foreign trade surplus of EUR 3.5 billion recorded in January–May 2015

Ministry of Finance, August 3, 2015 4:22 PM

Positive trends in Hungary’s trade continued in May as well: including the month’s growth, Hungary’s foreign trade balance posted a surplus of EUR 3.5 billion in the period from January to May. This figure is EUR 741 million higher than in the corresponding period last year.

Hungary spends more on environmental protection than Austria or Germany

Ministry of Agriculture, August 3, 2015 4:16 PM

In an interview with public news channel M1 on Sunday, Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Agricultural Development and Hungaricums Zsolt V. Németh said that Hungary spends more money on environmental protection than Austria or Germany, and emphasised that this is also the goal for the coming years.

Old Röszke-Horgos border-crossing station re-opened

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, August 1, 2015 11:21 AM

The old Röszke-Horgos border-crossing station has been re-opened. The two-by-two-lane border-crossing station on the No. 5 motorway is open to international passenger traffic, not including vehicles which are not allowed to use motorways, and coaches in August, every day between 7.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary strongly condemns the arson committed in the West Bank

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, August 1, 2015 9:00 AM

The Government of Hungary strongly condemns the vicious arson committed on 31st of July 2015 against a Palestinian house in Kafr Duma in the West Bank, causing the death of an 18-month-old Palestinian child and seriously injuring the victim’s parents and his four-year-old brother.

Major EU funding to be awarded to railway development

Ministry of National Development, July 31, 2015 2:53 PM

During the EU fiscal cycle extending to 2020, some one thousand billion forints will be available for the development of fixed track transport, and as part of this funding, the international TEN-T (Trans-European Transport Networks) will be upgraded on a section of 800 kilometres, János Fónagy, Minister of State of the Ministry of National Development said.