The training of 65 disabled people has been completed at Kézmű Nonprofit Ltd's site in Abádszalók, Eastern Hungary. The Hungarian Government provided the 6 million forint funding required for the program within the framework of the New Széchényi Plan, Minister of State for Social Affairs Miklós Soltész announced on Monday. Kézmű Nonprofit Ltd, which operates a sewing factory, employs 103 people of whom 73 are disabled.
24 schools have received 130 computers donated by Opel Hungary; a joint event held on Tuesday in Budaörs by the company and the Ministry of Human Resources to celebrate the fact was also attended by Minister of State for Public Education Rózsa Hoffmann.
Deputy State Secretary for Global Affairs Szabolcs Takács gave a speech at the 3rd International Conference on Information Security and Cyber Defence hosted by the National Security Supervisory Authority on 3 September near Lake Balaton.
The adoption of a bill by the Romanian government on measures to be introduced in connection with the gold and silver mining project in Roșia Montană (Verespatak) has raised serious concerns for Hungary.
Foreign Minister János Martonyi declared that the Hungarian Government did not recall Constitutional Court President Péter Paczolay from the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, but instead Paczolay’s four-year term had ended.
The Government is open to the Fidesz parliamentary group's latest proposal for a further reduction in public utility charges, the Minister of State heading the Prime Minister's Office said at a press conference in Hódmezővásárhely on Tuesday. Public utility charges must be reduced by at least a further 10 percent before the start of the heating season, János Lázár stated.
Hungary condemns in the strongest possible terms the chemical attack that was carried out in Syria on August 21, killing one and a half thousand people. The attack, which also targeted civilians, totally disregarded all moral rules and international norms. It is particularly shocking that every third victim was a child.
No living organism can survive without water, and so the greatest priority of to preserve the purity of water and to supply the population of the Earth with clean water, declared Minister of State for Environmental Affairs Zoltán Illés during a forum organised for Hungarian non-governmental organisations.
The Hungarian higher education system cannot exist nor can Hungary have a future without the civic virtues also characteristic of the 19th-20th century technical intellectuals, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog declared in his speech at the ceremony to mark the beginning of the new academic year at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).on Monday.
The Government is setting up various initiatives to create favourable conditions to convince young people considering moving abroad to stay in Hungary instead. Several hundred billion Forints will be provided for this purpose from both Hungarian and EU resources, the Ministerial Commissioner for the coordination of the For the Future of the New Generation programme announced.