A humanitarian disaster has been successfully prevented in the last few days by virtue of the coordinated efforts made by the Hungarian authorities and aid organisations in the vicinity of the Serbian-Hungarian border, the Minister of Human Resources stated at a press conference concerning illegal migration held on Wednesday in Szeged.
At the opening of the school year for the Christian Roma College Network in the north-east Hungarian town of Nyíregyháza on Sunday, Minister of State for Social Affairs and Inclusion Károly Czibere said that instead of Roma and non-Roma citizens merely living alongside each other, we have a vested interest in actually living together, and “we think in terms of a common future”.
UNICEF – the United Nations’ Children’s Fund – opened its global service in Budapest on Friday. At the opening ceremony László Szabó, Minister of State for Parliament at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said that the centre will support the fund’s children’s programmes worldwide by providing financial and human resources, as well as IT background.
Refugees should be helped to stay where they are and a clear distinction should be made between economic migrants and those refugees whom we have always helped and will continue to do so, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog told national news agency MTI on Tuesday in Paris.
Those who truly wish to help asylum-seekers should do so through aid organisations which have extensive experience of decades, are familiar with the relevant regulations, and are able to cooperate with the authorities, Minister of Human Resources Zoltán Balog said at the press conference held in Budapest after a meeting with the members of the Charity Council.
The reinforcement of cultural awareness – which is increasingly diminishing – is a must for the integration of migrants in Europe, Zoltán Balog told the Hungarian News Agency MTI on Friday after he delivered a lecture on the topic as the first foreign lecturer at the reputable forum held in Bayreuth, Bavaria.
It is our moral duty to remember the victims of the Communist regime said Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog on Thursday in Budapest, when he handed over Hungary’s contribution of 25 million forints to the initiators of a memorial of the victims of Communism in Ottawa, the Tribute to Liberty Foundation.
The number of childbirths has been continuously rising in Hungary for the past two years, Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs Katalin Novák said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.
Hungary needs to make some changes in its higher education system in order to make it sustainable, State Minister for Higher Education László Palkovics said on national TV channel M1 on Thursday night. He said that systemic problems had prompted the Ministry of Human Capacities to initiate changes in 2013, and the higher education strategy for 2014 had also recognised the need for change.
At a panel discussion at the Bálványos Summer University and Student Camp in Transylvania on Wednesday, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said that Hungary will launch its own Erasmus programme enabling exchanges between Hungarian students in Hungary and abroad.