A good economic policy creates the foundations for a good family policy, the Minister of Human Resources said in his welcome speech delivered on the second day of the Budapest Demographic Forum.
Opening a commemoration event at the Erkel Theatre in Budapest on Tuesday, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said that when we remember the victims of the Gulag, we also remember and are reminded of all forms of terror inflicted on Hungary.
At a press briefing on Monday, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said that from Thursday Hungary will host a three-day international demographics forum in Budapest.
On Thursday, Minister of State for Churches, Minorities and Civil Affairs Miklós Soltész said that last week’s municipality elections in the Transcarpathian region were a success to the ethnic Hungarian minority there, due to the cooperation of the two organizations of the Hungarian minority coupled with the support of churches, NGOs and the Government of Hungary.
The Ministry of Human Capacities and the World Health Organization (WHO) have jointly assessed the challenges related to migration.
„People who see refugees as the workforce of tomorrow are confusing employment policy with refugee policy”, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog declared at an event organised by the governing German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Bad Saulgau, Baden-Württemberg.
On Tuesday Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog appointed Zoltán Ónodi-Szűcs Minister of State for Health Care. Before his appointment, Mr. Ónodi-Szűcs was the general director of the State Centre of Healthcare Supply.
At the local nationality festival in the southwest Hungarian city of Pécs on Saturday, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said that nationality culture can only thrive if the majority considers it to also be its own. He quoted the father of the Indian independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi, saying that if we want to change the world “we must be the change”.
Although charity organizations too are faced with a huge challenge due to the migration crisis, three of them will continue to focus their attention on the Transarpathian region, Minister of State for Churches, National Minorities and Civil Affairs Miklós Soltész said on Sunday on national television channel M1.
Central European episcopacies are about to begin a joint aid collection for refugee camps in the Middle East based on a proposal put forward by Hungarian Minister of State for Churches, National Minorities and Civil Affairs Miklós Soltész during his meeting in Poland with Archbishop of Warsaw Kazimierz Nycz.