From 1 July the interest-subsidised loans provided under the family housing benefit scheme (‘csok’) will also be available for the purchase of used homes, and families will be able to apply for the new child support in respect of children born after 1 July, Katalin Novák announced.
The cultures of the Roma and Hungarian people have mutually influenced one another over the centuries, and the two peoples share a common passion for family, faith and respect for traditions, the Minister of Human Capacities said at the meeting of the Roma Coordination Council held on Monday in Budapest.
“There will be another significant wage increase for people working in healthcare services”, Minister of Human Capacities Miklós Kásler said at a professional conference on Monday.
At the end of World War II, deportation to the Gulags affected every twelfth Hungarian, said Bence Rétvári at the central commemoration held on the occasion of the memorial day of Hungarian political prisoners and forced labourers deported to the Soviet Union.
“The decline in Europe’s population should not be solved through migration, but through family policy”, the Ministry of Human Capacities’ Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs Katalin Novák stated in an interview published in Italian daily Veritá on Monday.
The future of Hungary lies in Hungarian children, and supporting children and people raising children is a priority goal, Katalin Novák said on Kossuth Radio’s programme “Sunday Paper” (Vasárnapi újság).
We have managed to achieve that the draft resolution adopted at the congress of the European People’s Party lays down the importance of the approach that the primary solution to demographic challenges lies in family-centred policies, not in migration, Katalin Novák said at the EPP congress in Helsinki.
The national consultation regarding the promotion and protection of families with children will start this week. The postal service will start delivering the questionnaires to members of the public in the next few days, the Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities announced at a press conference held on Monday in Budapest.
“Hungary spent more than the EU average on education in 2016: it spent 4.9 percent of its GDP on education, which represents 10.5 percent of total public spending”, Deputy State Secretary for Public Education Zoltán Maruzsa from the Ministry of Human Capacities said on Tuesday citing the Education and Training Monitor 2018 report published by the European Commission.
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