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Gulyás: Reform of Hungary’s public administration sector has been successful
Gergely Gulyás said there is “almost cross-party consensus” that the reorganization of public administration tasks has been a success.
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Gulyás: Europe must not impose sanctions in connection with war in Ukraine
Gergely Gulyás told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio that Hungarians must not be made to pay the price of war.
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Gulyás: Overall pension hike to reach 8.9%
Gergely Gulyás said the government knows that inflation will be higher than what had been projected prior to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
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Gulyás emphasizes significance of government-imposed price caps
Gergely Gulyás said government measures to control prices had cut inflation by over 5 percent.
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Government sees “no obstacle” to signing recovery fund agreement
Having reviewed the European Commission's letter activating the conditionality mechanism linking EU funding to the rule of law, the government sees “no obstacle” to signing the recovery fund agreement.
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Parliament to swear in prime minister on week of May 16
The government will submit a proposal on the structure of the new government immediately after the first session of the new parliament on May 2.
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Hungary marks memorial day of ethnic Hungarian deportees
The Beneš decrees passed immediately after the second world war deprived Czechoslovakia’s ethnic Hungarians and Germans of their citizenship and property on the basis of collective guilt.
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Gulyás: Hungary will not send soldiers or weapons to Ukraine
NATO could not make Hungary’s involvement in such an intervention mandatory, Gergely Gulyás said, adding that its member states are obliged to protect each other, “but as Ukraine is not a member of NATO, we have no such obligation”.
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Gulyás: Children’s sex education should be responsibility of parents
Gergely Gulyás said support of Christian conservatism has grown among intellectuals since the last election.
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Gulyás: Government agrees with demands of teachers
Gergely Gulyás said the promised 30 percent wage increase was likely to be implemented. Hungary has asked Brussels for hundreds of billions of forints to help fund the pay hikes.
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Gulyás: Creation of a free Hungary was aim of 1848/49 revolution
Gergely Gulyás said the creation of a free, independent Hungary was the aim of the 1848/49 revolution and the war of independence 174 years ago.
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Gulyás: Hungary’s security is of paramount importance
The Hungarian government has “firmly decided” not to send troops to Ukraine, neither will it allow weapons to be transported across the Hungary-Ukraine border.
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Gulyás: Hungarian soldiers should not take part in this conflict
Hungary must not be dragged into this war, and Hungarian soldiers should not be involved in the conflict, Gergely Gulyás, the minister heading the Prime Minister's Office said in an interview with Hungarian public media on Thursday.