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14th November, 2024
Ministry releases details of loans for young workers
The social consultation on preferential loans for young workers started on Wednesday, the Economy Ministry announced as it released details of its proposal.
The scheme makes ten-year interest-free loans of Ft 4 million available to employed persons aged 17-25, with a total budget of Ft 500 billion.
Those who are eligible for student loans are excluded from this scheme.
Applicants must work for at least 20 hours a week as an employee or an entrepreneur.
They must also undertake to have a registered address in Hungary and to work for at least five years from the date of the disbursement of the loan.
The ministry estimates that 300,000 people will take up the new loans in the next two years.
As, in addition to helping young people start their careers, the government aims to help young people to start a family, repayment of the loan is suspended for two years for women after the birth of their first child, another two-year moratorium comes into effect after the second child, when half of the debt is forgiven, while in the event of the arrival of a third child, the entire outstanding debt is cancelled. (portfolio.hu; hvg.hu; hirado.hu; magyarnemzet.hu)
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14th November, 2024
Baranyi claims Students City is part of Olympic plans
Nobody should have any doubts about why the government will begin construction of a Students City – it is not because of the housing crisis in Budapest but because of the cabinet’s Olympic plans, Ninth District mayor Krisztina Baranyi told ATV on Wednesday.
The sports facilities necessary for hosting the Olympics have practically without exception been completed, but there is no Olympic village to accommodate the large number of Olympic participants, she added.
The Fidesz leader on city council, Alexandra Szentkiralyi, made the surprise announcement on Tuesday that the government would finance construction of the Students City, a project that it began work on but then withdrew from a few years ago.
Mayor Gergely Karacsony has been trying to persuade the cabinet to build the complex of dormitory places for three years.
Even the most optimistic opinions agree that Budapest could not stage the Olympics before 2036, Klubradio remarks. (klubradio.hu; atv.hu)
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14th November, 2024
Govt would build Students City with external funds
A Students City dormitory complex as announced by Fidesz on Monday would be ready three years after a decision to build it is made, Culture and Innovation Minister Balazs Hanko said on TV2 station Wednesday morning.
Hanko said the designated brownfield area in the Ninth District would be an ideal place for the complex with an at least 12,000 but up to 20,000 places that would serve all of the city’s universities.
Planning of the costs is still ongoing and the government would like to involve external funds in the project, he said, but he did not say where foreign funds might come from.
The cabinet reached an agreement with the city on a Students City to be built in the Ninth District but it was revealed that a Budapest campus of China’s Fudan University would be built on the same area.
This stirred up widespread protest, and, although Parliament approved a bill on proceeding with the Fudan campus, no progress has been made since then in the matter of the Chinese university. (hvg.hu; magyarhirlap.hu; mandiner.hu; magyarnemzet.hu; hirklikk.hu)
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14th November, 2024
Fidesz MPs begin nationwide tour
Fidesz and Christian Democrat politicians, including ministers and state secretaries, began touring the country on Wednesday to promote the National Consultation, in a campaign that will run until December 6.
State secretary Balazs Hidveghi told reporters that the National Consultation is necessary because the EU wants to force “an economic Cold War” on Hungary, by determining which countries Hungary can or cannot trade with.
Hungary can prosper, he said, if it preserves its economic autonomy and economic neutrality – that is, if Hungary can engage in trade with both the West and the East.
Therefore, he is asking everybody to fill in the consultation questionnaires which will arrive in peoples’ mailboxes by December 6, as promised by Magyar Posta. (hirado.hu; magyarhirlap.hu; magyarnemzet.hu; hirtv.hu; tenyek.hu)
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14th November, 2024
OLAF meets with Integrity leader
Ville Itala, head of the EU’s anti-fraud office OLAF, and Pal Ferenc Biro, president of the recently created Integrity Authority, discussed questions of cross-border co-operation in combating fraud and corruption, the authority announced on Wednesday.
The two leaders stressed the importance of pooling resources and expertise in dealing with complex forms of cross-border fraud that jeopardise EU taxpayers’ money.
The two parties expressed their shared commitment to broaden the powers and capabilities of national authorities, to uncover and investigate international fraud and to develop legal procedures. (hirado.hu)
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14th November, 2024
New law speeds up adoption of children abandoned at hospitals
The first accelerated adoptions of children left in hospitals have taken place, Interior Ministry state secretary Bence Retvari announced on Wednesday.
He said that last summer Parliament had passed a bill submitted by the cabinet aimed at speeding up the adoption procedure for babies abandoned in hospitals.
Under the new regulations 31 babies left in hospitals before September 30 were declared fit for adoption, while adoption procedures for another seven children were closed by October 24.
The adoption of another ten babies is still under way but they are already living with the couples intending to adopt them.
Retvari said more than 1,000 babies await adoption in Hungary. (telex.hu; hang.hu)
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14th November, 2024
City approves law enforcement units on BKV vehicles
A law enforcement force will operate on Budapest public transport vehicles within the frameworks of the capital’s law enforcement directorate FORI, as approved by the city council, the mayor’s chief of staff Ambrus Kiss, told Magyar Nemzet on Wednesday.
The new agency will be established with 75 staff members, complemented with 20 law enforcement officials who already work for the Budapest Transport Centre or city public transport company BKV through sub-contractors.
Kiss said the new force will be established within the FORI because FORI public area inspectors can proceed in individual cases.
Kiss said the city does not want to create an organisation that harasses homeless people, as, simultaneously with the establishment of the new law enforcement unit, it will be a top priority to ensure that homeless people removed from public transport vehicles should not remain at bus or tram stops, where they might easily freeze to death in winter.
The idea of the law enforcement body for public transport had been raised by David Vitezy during the mayoral election campaign. (444.hu; mandiner.hu; magyarnemzet.hu; infostart.hu)
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