The salaries of 150,000 teachers will increase by 34 percent on average as of 1 September 2013, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog announced.
Hungary’s development ministry said it had selected two projects for the second tender of the NER300 programme, which funds innovative low-carbon technology and renewable energy projects. NER300 is managed jointly by the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and member states.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán signed an agreement in Parliament with leaders of 16 sport associations. At the event, the Prime Minister emphasised that the goal of the agreement is to ensure that successful athletes need not work abroad.
The Institute for the Mentally Ill in Berzence has won remarkable institutional development funding worth HUF one billion entirely from EU resources.
This year’s assembly of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) held in Budapest is hoped to give an impetus to the notion of Europe’s renewal based on Christian values, Hungary’s Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog said on Saturday evening, addressing the event.
The Day of Slovaks in Hungary was celebrated in Pálháza, a village on the Slovak border in north-eastern Hungary, on Saturday. In his address after an ecumenical service in the local Catholic church, Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog emphasised the importance of friendship and mutual trust between the Hungarian and Slovak nations.
The summer camp organised by the National Roma Government opened on Monday in the locality of Velence situated in Fejér County where five hundred disadvantaged and Roma children will enjoy a summer holiday in the next few weeks, thanks, inter alia, to the funding of HUF 15 million provided by the Ministry of Human Resources.
State Secretary heading the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár has concluded an agreement with the Jewish Heritage of Hungary Public Endowment and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany so that Holocaust survivors of Hungarian origin living in foreign countries may receive compensation as soon as possible.
The Visegrad Group should cooperate closely with the Baltic states, Foreign Ministry Deputy State Secretary Gergely Prőhle declared in Riga on July 5.
The Prime Minister called the report on the situation of fundamental rights approved by the European Parliament on Wednesday unjust and said that business lobby interests lie behind the measures taken against Hungary.