The World Jewish Congress is to hold its 14th Plenary Assembly between 5-7 May, 2013. The conference will discuss global issues concerning Jewish communities.
Minister Martonyi strongly condemned the recent attack against Ferenc Orosz, Chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Associaton.
Hungary has joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP), an international initiative launched in September 2011 with a view to increasing transparency of government activities and fighting corruption.
Approximately HUF 40 billion in support will soon be available within the framework of the EEA and Norway Grants. In order to mark the event the National Development Agency and the Royal Norwegian Embassy organised an official opening conference in Budapest. Information on the objectives of the Funds and expected support will be given by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway’s ambassador to Budapest as well as representatives of the Ministry for National Development and the National Development Agency.
At a sitting of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg yesterday, Dr. Péter Mihalovics, ministerial commissioner at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, gave an address on the responsibility of governments and education, public education and alternative education systems in dealing with problems and challenges affecting young people.
Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog testified in front of the Nyíregyháza Court with relation ot the case of the Miklós Sója Kindergarten and Elementary School, run by the Greek Catholic Church. The Chance for Children Foundation (CFCF) has sued both the local government and the church, demanding closure of the institution that, according to CFCF, segregates Roma children.
The Budapest Water Summit will be held between October 8 and 11, and will be the most significant diplomatic event of the second half of the year in Hungary, the Foreign Ministry's Deputy State Secretary for European Union Sectoral Policy Gábor Baranyai told Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.
The 11th March of the Living, commemorating the victims of Holocaust, took place along the Danube in Budapest on the 21st of April. The aim of the event was also to support the reinforcement of a Hungary that is free of racism and extremism. Around 20,000-25,000 people took part in the peaceful remembrance march. Among the participants were Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog, Fidesz parliamentary faction leader Antal Rogán, and several foreign diplomats and state officials.
The participants of the Budapest Process signed the Ministerial Declaration on a Silk Routes Partnership for Migration on 19 April 2013.
Hungary and Germany will soon launch several Roma programmes, Human Resources Minister Zoltan Balog said in Berlin on Thursday after talks with German officials. The Minister, who is on an official visit to Germany, met with Ministers of State Cornelia Pieper and Eckart von Kladen, as well as with Romani Rose, President of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma.