Ninety-two per cent of eligible settlements, meaning almost all settlements have already been awarded development funds through the Hungarian Villages Programme, the government commissioner responsible for the development of Hungarian settlements stated on Monday in Budapest.
A memorandum of understanding on humanitarian cooperation between the Hungarian and Polish governments was signed on Monday in Budapest.
The government is asking everyone travelling abroad to exercise special caution, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at a press conference held on Thursday in Budapest.
The Hungarian government’s solidarity towards the Yezidi community of Iraq manifests itself not only in words, but also in actions, enabling members of the community – victims of a genocide – to remain in their native land or to return home, Tristan Azbej, Minister of State for Helping Persecuted Christians and the Implementation of the Hungary Helps Programme at the Prime Minister’s Office said at an online conference organised by the Free Yezidi Foundation on the occasion of the memorial day of the genocide committed by the Islamic State against Yezidi people.
“Minority legal protection affords irreplaceable guarantees for the Hungarian peoples within both the Carpathian Basin and for people living in the diaspora”, The Office of the Prime Minister’s Ministerial Commissioner for National Policy Péter Szilágyi emphasised on Monday in his opening speech to participants of the ninth summer university entitled Minority Protection in Europe.
The number of coronavirus patients is stagnating at around 500 to 600 in Hungary, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Sunday Paper’.
The village in Vas County Kercaszomor bearing the title “Bravest Community” is proof of the fact that sometimes fighting a battle that appears hopeless could lead to victory and could yield results, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stressed on Saturday when he inaugurated the settlement’s centenary memorial marking the anniversary of the armed uprising of 1920.
“This year’s final tenders have been published within the framework of the Hungarian Village Program; this time, applications may be submitted for a total budget of 12 billion forints (EUR 34.6 million) for the construction of local municipality cycling paths, cemetery development, the establishment of building plots, and the purchasing of derelict buildings for public use”, Government Commissioner for the Development of Modern Settlements Alpár Gyopáros announced at a press conference in Budapest on Monday.
The government does not intend to change the measures serving the fight against the coronavirus epidemic that are currently in effect because any change would be risky, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at the ‘Governmentinfo’ press conference held on Thursday in Budapest.
“Over six hundred settlements have been awarded funding for the development of community spaces within the framework of the Hungarian Village Program”, Government Commissioner for the development of modern settlements Alpár Gyopáros said at a press conference in Budapest on Monday.