Twenty-three out of altogether ninety applications were bestowed the Family-friendly Workplace 2012 title. The awards were handed over in Budapest on Friday.
Jump to this pageThe anti-corruption task force held another meeting on Friday at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice. At this round of consultations conducted with the participation of civil organisations, including representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce, the Budapest Corvinus University, the Budapest Institute, the Forum of Civic Cooperation, the Council of Geopolitics Foundation, the Magyar Conquest 2000 Society, the Joint Venture Alliance, the K-Monitor Public Association, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Transparency International Hungary and átlásztó.hu, attendees discussed issues concerning the protection of whistleblowers.
Jump to this pageDer nationalen Gedenktag für die Vertreibung der Ungarndeutschen wurde heute im Rahmen einer staatlichen Gedenkfeier zum ersten Mal veranstaltet. Die Kränze der Erinnerung wurden in Schaumar niedergelegt, eine Siedlung die schwer von diesem dunklen Kapitel unserer gemeinsamen Geschichte betroffen war.
Jump to this pageMinister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog and Swedish Minister for Integration Erik Ullenhag presented this year's Wallenberg Awards at Budapest's Holocaust Memorial Centre on Thursday.
Jump to this pageThe Hungarian Holocaust 2014 Memorial Committee held its founding session today. The Government set up the body, which is responsible for preparing the commemorative events marking the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jews in 2014.
Jump to this page"2014, Holocaust commemoration year, must be the year of confronting the past and asking for forgiveness" the State Secretary heading the Prime Minister's Office told Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday following the founding session of the Holocaust Memorial Committee. According to János Lázár, facing the past means the incorporating into law of the command to remember and the prohibition of forgetting, while asking for forgiveness must be made part of the national identity.
Jump to this pageDeputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén received the officials of the European Jewish Parliament, who are on a visit to Hungary.
Jump to this pageThe Government has appointed State Secretary in charge of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár to prepare and coordinate the professional tasks related to the settlement of the financial compensation claims of Jewish communities as well as cultural, educational, historical fact-revealing and tradition-keeping activities concerning Jewish communities.
Jump to this pageIn order to promote the social inclusion of people living on the streets, the Government is making a total of HUF 917 million available within the framework of the New Széchenyi Plan.
Jump to this page2014 will be the 70th anniversary of the darkest chapter in the Hungarian holocaust, the extermination of Hungarian Jews. For reasons of mourning and remembrance, and to increase awareness of the tragic events of 1944, on the recommendation of Hungarian Jewish organisations and based on the proposal of the Prime Minister, the Government is to establish the Hungarian Holocaust Memorial 2014 Committee.
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