Hungarian Deputy State Secretary for EU and International Affairs of the Ministry of Human Capacities met U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Thomas O. Melia in Budapest on Monday.
Hungarian Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog met EU Commisioner for Justive, Consumers and Gender Equality Vĕra Jourová on Thursday in Budapest.
The advisory board of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) approved Hungary’s report on the National Qualifications Framework, Deputy State Secretary for Higher Education Zoltán Maruzsa announced on Wednesday.
Hungarian Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog and Turkish Minister for Labour and Social Affairs Faruk Celik signed a social security agreement on 24 February in Budapest.
Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog presided the inaugural meeting of the Gulag Memorial Committee, set up on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of deportations and forced labour in the Soviet Union.
Hungarian Minister of State for Family and Social Affairs Katalin Novák held talks on Thursday with United Nations and UNICEF officials in Geneva. UNICEF Director of Private Funding and Partnerships Gérard Bocquenet praised Hungary’s efforts to support children.
NGOs will receive a total HUF 5 billion (EUR 16.4 million) this year from the state budget’s National Cooperation Fund, a two billion forints increase compared to 2014, Minister of State Miklós Soltész announced on Wednesday.
During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Hungary on 17th February 2015, a Memorandum of Understanding on personnel training in the field of nuclear energy was signed by the Minister of Human Capacities and the chief executive of the Russian national nuclear corporation Rosatom.
Hungarian society should not resign itself to poverty, therefore government policy should be centred on mobilization and on creating jobs, Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog said on Tuesday at the conference entitled Poverty in Hungary: chances and opportunities.
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Colleen Bell and Hungarian Minister of Human Capacities Zoltán Balog signed an agreement on Tuesday in Budapest regulating social security issues between the two countries.