One day before the official start of the EFOTT student festival there will be a special show to launch the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice’s two-year youth project ‘New Generation Plus’. The primary objective of the project is to help young people in formulating plans for the future and to prepare them for a smooth entry into the labour market.
On 4 June, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared a state of emergency due to the record high water levels expected on the Danube from Wednesday.
Last year was an outstanding one from the aspect of women’s employment: their employment rate exceeded 52 percent, which has been unprecedented in the past twenty years, Ministerial Commissioner Piroska Szalai, responsible for improving the labour market prospects of women, said at a press conference in Budapest.
The Buda Central District Court scheduled the hearing of László Csatáry as a witness for June 4 in relation to the Holocaust lawsuit against the State of Hungary and state railway company MÁV launched in the United States of America in 2010. The action was filed in Washington D.C. in 2010 in the name of Holocaust survivors and victims. During the proceedings Hungary was represented by the Ministry of National Development.
The Ópusztaszer National Historical Memorial Park was declared a National Memorial Site on the Day of National Unity. Minister of State heading the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár declared that the Day of National Unity is also the day of real Europeanness and the day of regime change without compromise.
An amendment to the Penal Code adopted by Parliament on Monday makes it possible to punish domestic violence more severely than ever; violence within relationships has been made into a separate category of offence.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has declared an emergency situation due to record high water levels on the Danube.
The Minster of Rural Development has ordered an immediate investigation of seeds and crops after it came to his attention that certain quantities of genetically modified (GMO) maize seeds had entered Hungary illegally across the country's eastern borders. Sándor Fazekas announced his decision following the opening of a street festival in Budapest's 7th district.
"The proper management of our natural resources is our strategic responsibility", Deputy State Secretary for Agricultural Economy Zsolt Feldman said in his presentation at the Budapest conference of the Multifunctional Countryside series.
A memorandum of understanding was signed by the Hungarian Ministry of Interior and the United States Department of Energy on Friday in Budapest.