Average net wages – excluding family tax allowances -- increased at above the rate of inflation in January-March 2013, by 4.2 percent year-on-year.
Jump to this pageHungary will be performing the duties of Coordinator and acting as Co-President of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) for the next two years. On May 21, the members states of the CTBTO named Hungary and Indonesia to be Co-Presidents of the Organization between 2013 and 2015.
Jump to this pageThe laws of the European Union and its individual Member States should be brought into balance, with the various constitutional and political structures of members being respected, Minister of Foreign Affairs János Martonyi said May 21 at the international conference in Budapest, entitled “The Enforcement of EU Law against Member States”.
Jump to this pageThe Polish Presidency of the Visegrad Group organised its third meeting of agriculture ministers in Krakow on May 16-17, which in addition to the Visegrad Four – the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia – was also attended by Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia (V4+3). The Ministry of Rural Development was represented by Minister of State for Agricultural Economy György Czerván.
Jump to this pageThe draft of the Ministry of Rural Development's Ecological Farming Action Plan has been completed and social debate on the draft is expected to begin in early June, the Ministry's Deputy State Secretary to Parliamentary, Social and International Relations told Hungarian news agency MTI.
Jump to this pageBence Rétvári, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, has told the television news station Hír Televízió that pension supplements will be revoked for more than one hundred former ‘III / III’ agents (who worked in the ‘internal enemy division’ of the communist-era secret services), and their heirs.
Jump to this pageIt is with utter shock and bewilderment that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary was informed about a statement published in the daily paper Metro in Brussels on 16 May by Mr. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, stating that Hungary wants “to count Jews”.
Jump to this pagePrime Minister Viktor Orbán mentioned pay rises for general practitioners and teachers, and the launching of a population programme as important tasks for the upcoming period, on Kossuth Radio's 180 minutes.
Jump to this pageThe report on Hungary that the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe (CoE) has recently adopted is biased and politically motivated, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Foreign Ministry Zsolt Németh declared yesterday on the sidelines of a CoE session. The procedure involves risks for the CoE, because it may force the organisation into ideological battles, he said.
Jump to this pageSchool police officers will be on duty in schools that are especially endangered by criminal elements – said Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér at a press conference in Budapest after the first meeting of the National Committee for Crime Prevention. Minister Pintér said that police officers would also participate in schoolwork as members of the teaching faculty.
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