News and events

April 18, 2013 8:44 AM

Együttműködés a hazai és kínai bevándorlási szervezet között

Információcserére, szakemberképzésre irányuló együttműködési megállapodást kötött a Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal és a Kínai Népköztársaság Közbiztonsági Minisztériumának ki- és beléptetési adminisztrációért felelős hivatala.

April 18, 2013 8:41 AM

Ministry of Interior steps up against all manifestations of anti-Semitism and racism

The Ministry of Interior is ready to take all necessary actions in order to prevent the Adolf Hitler memorial tour planned and organized by the Pax Hungarica Movement.

April 17, 2013 8:05 AM

Access to Healthy Drinking Water Is Important

Water gives life, and we give water. To make healthy drinking water available for every citizen of Hungary! The government has assigned us this task, and the Hungarian Defence Forces are ready to carry it out – Defence Minister Csaba Hende said in Kiskőrös on April 16.

April 16, 2013 8:22 AM

Hungary’s Holocaust remembrance day

On the occasion of Hungary’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorations including exhibition openings, conferences and history lessons were held throughout the country.

April 15, 2013 12:21 PM

Further Opportunities in Ecological Farming

Hungary hasn't so far suitably exploited the opportunities inherent in ecological farming, said the Ministry of Rural Development's Deputy State Secretary Katalin Tóth at an agriculture conference in Gödöllő.

April 12, 2013 11:04 AM

On 16 April we remember the Hungarian victims of the Holocaust

In 2000, the National Assembly designated 16 April as the Day of Remembrance for Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust. The first such memorial event was held in 2001. This year official Remembrance Day events will take place in Budapest at the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Danube Promenade Holocaust Memorial, and also in the cities of Hódmezővásárhely and Pécs. There will also be a memorial concert in the afternoon at Budapest’s House of Terror Museum.

April 11, 2013 9:14 AM

The Government will take action against all acts and initiatives that are anti-Semitic or offend minorities

The Government clearly distances itself from and shall act against all acts and initiatives that are anti-Semitic or offend minorities on the basis of their religion or origin, the Government Spokesman affirmed on Thursday at a press conference held on another topic in Parliament.

April 10, 2013 11:43 AM

ADL thanks Hungarian Government for asserted action to preserve dignity of Holocaust march

The Anti-Defamation League thanked Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in a letter for stepping up swiftly to prevent the offensive motorcyclists’ rally from happening contemporarily with the Holocaust commemoration event on 21 April. Press release.

April 9, 2013 8:08 AM

Zsolt Németh Opens Exhibition on Armenian Culture in the Carpathian Basin

It is easy to see the parallels between the histories of the Armenian and Hungarian nations – said Zsolt Németh, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the opening of the exhibition entitled „Far from Ararat – Armenian Culture in the Carpathian Basin” on April 5. The event was attended, among others, by Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament László Kövér and President of the Armenian-Hungarian Cultural Association in Yerevan Anahit Simonyan.

April 8, 2013 8:05 AM

Governmental fight against anti-Semitism

Two hundred Hungarian young people travel to Auschwitz today to participate in the 26th remembrance programme organized by the March of the Living. Tens of thousands of young people from 53 countries are to participate in the programme. Beside historical remembrance, the programme helps people focus on the socially embedded nature of prejudices and hate. The traditional Hungarian March of the Living will be held on 21 April and tens of thousands of participants are expected to take part.