Hungary has been given a promise that no changes of any kind will be introduced in Ukraine in the education of the Hungarian minority until a decision is adopted by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe with respect to the relevant part of the Ukrainian education legislation, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said after he had talks with Ukrainian Education Minister Liliya Hrynevych and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Kiev.
Deputy Minister of Human Capacities Bence Rétvári spoke about the fact that instead of being resettled in Europe, people in need are awaiting assistance from Europe at home, on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday morning current affairs program.
“The state of Baden-Württemberg will continue to provide annual funding of 500 thousand euros to Andrássy University in future”, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Justice and European Affairs Guido Wolf announced in Budapest on Tuesday following a meeting with Hungary’s Minister of Human Capacities.
“The leaders of Middle Eastern Christians Churches taking part in a three-day international conference on the persecution of Christians have confirmed that the Hungarian Government’s policy of assisting Christians who have been driven from their homes to return home is correct”, the Deputy State Secretary for Aiding Persecuted Christians said.
The preservation of the fundamental values, worldview and culture of Christianity is a question of the preservation of democracy and diversity all at once, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said on Thursday in Budapest at the International Consultation on Christian Persecution.
“Hungary would like to be a refuge for persecuted Christians”, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog said on Friday in Budapest.
By signing the new Ukrainian Education Act, Ukraine is stripping rights away, violating a number of international treaties, including the assurance of learning and teaching in the mother tongue on all levels on education, which the country has undertaken on its path towards the community of European nations. The leadership of Ukraine does not lead the country towards Europe but a dead end.
“Transcarpathian Hungarians want to make a living in the land of their birth, and it is Hungary’s constitutional duty to help them do so”, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog declared at an event to mark the beginning of the academic year that the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College in Beregsász (Berehove), Ukraine. At the event, Mr. Balog announced that Hungary will be constructing a swimming pool and sports hall in the Transcarpathian city at a cost of over one billion forints (EUR 3.2 million).
Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog has proposed a meeting with Ukraine’s Minister for Education and Science Liliia Hrynevych.
The construction of the school in the Iraqi city of Erbil, which is being funded within the framework of the Government’s Hungary Helps programme, is progressing according to schedule.