Radical nationalist Jobbik’s MP, Márton Gyöngyösi's parliamentary address a week ago was unworthy of Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Parliament on Monday.
The United States reacted positively to Hungary’s position on the areas of change for which it has drawn most criticism, said Deputy State Secretary for International Communications Ferenc Kumin on Friday, summing up the discussions he had in New York and Washington during his week-long visit to the United States.
Coming together under the auspices of the Wallenberg Year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the Embassy of Italy in Hungary, the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest and the Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association commemorated Giorgo Perlasca and Angelo Rotta on November 29, 2012.
It is easier to provide an explanation for natural disasters than for domestic violence, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog stated at an open day on domestic violence, organised by Parliament’s Committee on Human Rights, Minority, Civic and Religious Affairs and the Constitutional, Judicial and Procedural Committee, that took place in the Parliament Building.
The economic role of women and their labour market participation has been an issue gaining more and more significance. Hungary is no exception: via the National Cooperation Programme the Hungarian Government aims to create a more family-friendly labour market. One of the Programme’s pivotal elements pays special attention to women’s employment, as without improving it a family-friendly Hungary cannot be established.
The Office of the Government Spokesman, the Fidesz party faction and various governmental politicians have condemned to the greatest possible degree the statement made in Parliament by Jobbik MP Márton Gyöngyösi. According to the Office of the Government Spokesman, the Government takes the strictest possible action against every form of racism and anti-Semitic behaviour and does everything in order to ensure that malicious voices incompatible with European norms are driven back, adding that every citizen will be protected from such insults.
Yesterday, Deputy State Secretary Ferenc Kumin met with Andrew Srulevitch, director of European Affairs at the Anti-Defamation League in New York, and conveyed to him in person the Government of Hungary's strong condemnation of the statement made in Parliament by Jobbik MP Márton Gyöngyösi.
Minister of Human Resources Balog and Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Torgeir Larsen at a press conference prior to the start of a two-day Council of Europe conference to tackle hate speech.
Hungary's efforts to promote Roma integration in society and a European Union proposal to set a quota for women in listed companies' boards were among the topics discussed at a meeting between Minister for Human Resources Zoltan Balog and EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding in Brussels on Monday.
Speaking at an international conference in Budapest on the subject of soft power, Zoltán Kovács, State Secretary for Public Diplomacy at the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, said that the changes made over the past two years since the current government came to office have contributed towards strengthening civil society, and have enabled the emergence of conditions which make the use of soft power possible.