Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog and Veronika Skvortsova, Minister of Health of the Russian Federation had bilateral talks in Budapest yesterday.
Deputy Minister of Human Capacities Bence Rétvári met with the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher in Rome today. Mr. Rétvári put forward a detailed report on the Hungary Helps programme and other Hungarian activities performed in the interests of assisting persecuted Christians.
“Europe’s debate culture and decision-making techniques should be reformed to enable every citizen to feel that they are an equal member of the European Union (EU), to which 16th century reformers provide an excellent example”, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said in a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.
The generation of witnesses is bidding farewell, the generation of Katyn, the lads of Pest and the survivors of the Gulag, but let us listen to them while we can, the Minister of Human Capacities said on Wednesday evening in Budapest, at the end of the memorial march organised on the occasion of the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Totalitarian Regimes, at the House of Terror Museum.
The Government believes it is important that it should contribute to the utilisation of the skills of young people, the promotion of their active participation in society and the encouragement of the establishment of families through the implementation of a youth-friendly, future-oriented and predictable policy, Bence Rétvári, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Human Capacities told the Hungarian news agency MTI.
It is our joint responsibility to ensure that, from the financial grants and opportunities provided, culture and above all, a community should be built and should gain in strength in Transcarpathia, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said on Saturday in Nagydobrony in the Ungvár District at the family quiet day of the Reformed Church in Transcarpathia.
The Government supports the initiatives of non-governmental organisations helping handicapped people and their families. Those organisations are eligible to submit applications in response to the call for proposals with an allocation worth almost HUF 171.5 million in total to be closed on Wednesday which seek to launch local, regional or national programmes to combat isolation, Károly Czibere told the press.
Hungarian Baptists are important for Hungary and the Hungarian nation, the Minister of Human Capacities said at the closing service held on Sunday in Debrecen at the 4th World Meeting of Hungarian Baptists.
Hungary would like to become an opinion maker centre in the fight against the persecution of Christians, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog spoke about this on the programme 180 minutes of Kossuth Rádió on Thursday morning.
Minister of State for Church, Nationality and Civil Society Relations Miklós Soltész finds it a joyful development that not only the Government supports the summer camps of young Hungarians from beyond the borders in Hungary, but this is now also a wide-spread and natural practice for municipalities and civil society organisations.