Deputy PM: Maintaining Hungarian-language education is key to preserving Hungarian communities across borders
The Deputy PM said currently 252,000 children were enrolled in Hungarian-language education in the Carpathian Basin.
The Deputy PM said currently 252,000 children were enrolled in Hungarian-language education in the Carpathian Basin.
The pair reviewed the excellent relations between the Order of Malta and Hungary and the operation of the Hungarian Maltese Charity.
Aid worth 30 million forints (EUR 80,860) will be delivered to Ukraine and the rest provided for refugees staying in Hungary.
The deputy prime minister said the transfer was “a gesture by the Russian Orthodox Church towards Hungary”, to which the prisoners had owed their freedom.
Zsolt Semjén said Esterházy had been a politician who represented “the common fate of the Slovak and the Hungarian nation”.
President Novák, her husband and Semjén were received by Pope Francis ahead of the ceremony.
Deputy PM Semjén told a meeting of the Permanent Hungarian Conference (MÁÉRT) in Budapest that ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia will get increased support immediately.
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said the government is launching a special scholarship program for young diaspora Hungarians looking to pursue higher education in Hungary.
Deputy PM Semjén said he trusted that Alliance representatives would “build a strong representation for [ethnic] Hungarians” in Slovakia.
Hungary and Serbia are “firm defenders of Christian civilization”, Deputy PM Semjén said.
Zsolt Semjén said he believes Hungary is witnessing a Jewish renaissance following significant government support to Jewish organizations.
Hungary maintained zero-tolerance against anti-Semitism, regardless of whether they are connected to the extreme right, extreme left, Jihadists or anti-Israeli sentiments.
Zsolt Semjén said the foundations of Hungary’s policy towards Hungarian communities abroad had been laid in 2010, adding that “they have proved stable”.