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Less bureaucracy also means better international competitiveness
Prime Minister’s Office, February 5, 2016 10:23 AM
“Reducing bureaucracy is aimed at increasing the country’s competitiveness and increasing its economy”, the Minister of Prime Minister’s Office said in an interview with Hungarian news agency MTI. János Lázár summed up the basic principle behind reducing bureaucracy with a quote from Elbert Einstein: “The state is our servant and not we its slaves”.
The Government is prepared to begin negotiations on public education
Prime Minister’s Office, February 4, 2016 6:42 PM
“The Government is ready to begin talks on public education at any time, but asks that politics isn’t taken into schools”, the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office said at the Government Info 38 press conference.
Victims remembered in UN
Prime Minister’s Office, January 28, 2016 3:33 PM
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the ceremony which was held in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust at the New York headquarters of the global organisation on Wednesday. Szabolcs Takács, State Secretary for European Affairs highlighted the Hungarian Government’s commitment to the fight against anti-Semitism.
Healing the wounds of the Holocaust is a joint responsibility
Prime Minister’s Office, January 27, 2016 6:14 PM
Dr Csaba Latorczai, Deputy State Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office for priority social affairs delivered a speech at the Uránia National Cinema at the commemoration held on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
EC would also support maintenance of cohesion funds after 2020
Prime Minister’s Office, January 27, 2016 5:39 PM
Nándor Csepreghy described the meeting of the Visegrád Four held in Prague at the beginning of the week as a breakthrough where, in his words, the attending countries succeeded in convincing the European Commission that the continuation of the cohesion policy is a worthwhile effort.
Entire retail gas market to be in state ownership by October
Prime Minister’s Office, January 27, 2016 4:50 PM
By October the entire retail gas market will have been taken over, and with the acquisition of the consumers of Tigáz, Főgáz Zrt., the gas supplier which operates under the professional supervision of the First National Public Utility Provider Company (ENKSZ Zrt.), will have some 3.4 million customers, Mrs Németh, Lászlóné told the press at a press conference held in the Székesfehérvár customer service office of Főgáz.
Two new decrees to summarise rules of preferential family housing programme
Prime Minister’s Office, January 22, 2016 8:01 AM
The Government will summarise the rules of the preferential family housing programme in two new decrees on 3 February, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office announced at the press conference Governmentinfo 37 which he held jointly with Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács.
Paks area to receive at least HUF 1 billion in funding
Prime Minister’s Office, January 20, 2016 12:20 PM
The Paks Social Council held a meeting today with the participation of the area’s 41 mayors and MPs, Minister of Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár and Mayor of Paks János Süli, who are the body’s co-chairs, as well as the CEOs of MVM Paks Zrt. and the National Infrastructure Development Zrt. Tamás Bán and Róbert Nagy.
Donations worth HUF 280 million sent to Transcarpathia
Prime Minister’s Office, January 19, 2016 5:01 PM
On Tuesday at a press conference held in Tatabánya State Secretary Árpád János Potápi said that donations worth HUF 280 million reached those in need as a result of the donation collection campaign launched by the State Secretariat for National Policy in aid of Hungarian communities in Transcarpathia.
The implementation of migration measures is not working
Prime Minister’s Office, January 19, 2016 4:37 PM
Following a meeting of EU ministers for European affairs, Minister of State for European Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office Szabolcs Takács said that the migration crisis Europe has to face has not been solved by the few decisions made at various levels, because the implementation of these is only minimally effective – or not effective at all.