Focus on education on democracy and cooperation with the parliaments of candidate countries
14 February 2025
The Hungarian National Assembly organised the Meeting of the Secretaries General of the European Union Parliaments, with the participation of parliaments of candidate countries, on 9-10 February 2025 in Budapest. The meeting was hosted by György Such, Director General of the Hungarian National Assembly. The event was opened by László Kövér, Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly who pointed out the main objective of the meeting: preparation of the highest-level forum for interparliamentary cooperation, the Conference of Speakers of the EU Parliaments. In addition, it also provides an opportunity to review current common issues and experiences between the offices and to find common solutions. He emphasised that the employees of the Office of the Hungarian National Assembly made it "the most stable institution of the Hungarian administration through their professional and loyal service over decades and across governments". He wished his fellow Speakers the same as he has been granted: “political stability in parliament and administrative stability in the working organisation of parliament”.
Parliamentary events related to the Hungarian presidency continue in 2025: Meeting of the Secretaries General of the EU Parliaments, with participation of parliaments of candidate countries
3 February 2025
The peculiarity of the parliamentary cooperation of the presidency of the Council of the EU is that the national parliament of the country holding the presidency in the second semester organises the Conference of Speakers of the EU Parliaments in the following semester, and the Meeting of the Secretaries General of the EU Parliaments in preparation for it.
The Hungarian National Assembly will organise the Meeting of the Secretaries General of the European Union Parliaments on 9-10 February 2025 in Budapest. The event will be opened by László Kövér, Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly, and hosted by György Such, Director General of the Hungarian National Assembly.
"The creative power of European citizens lies in their national identity" – exchange of views at the last interparliamentary conference of the semester
12 December 2024
The series of parliamentary events of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2024 concluded with the Interparliamentary Conference on Cultural Heritage and the Identity of National Communities organised by the Hungarian National Assembly on 4-5 December 2024.
In his opening speech, László Kövér, Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly pointed out: Europe's cultural heritage and the future of the continent are rooted in the creative power of European citizens, and this creative power lies in national identity. It is the citizens who have a national identity, which stems from their mother tongue, their culture and their homeland. The Speaker proposed that the United Nations (UN) take the initiative to add to the latest generation of universal human rights, the right to national identity, a right that has been sorely lacking until now. He stressed that the right to national identity is the right of all human beings to freely inherit from their ancestors their mother tongue, their culture and the familiarity of their homeland, and to freely transmit it to their descendants.
Proposal on improving European competitiveness on the agenda of ’Model of Parliament’ (Mint-a-Parlament)
7 December 2024
The Museum of the Hungarian Parliament organised the event for higher education students aiming to model legislative work, the “Model of Parliament” (Mint-a-Parlament) on 20 November 2024. In line with the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union, the organisers were looking for proposals from the applicant groups that would approach the priorities set by the Hungarian presidency in a way that could be regulated in Hungarian legislation, adapted to the Hungarian situation. From the proposals received, the expert staff of the Office of the Hungarian National Assembly recommended for discussion the following with the title: ‘Amending Act I of 2012 on the Labour Code to ensure stability and sustainability at work for the improvement of European competitiveness’. On 20 November students from the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, the Széchenyi István University and the Ludovika University of Public Service debated the legislative proposal in the Building of the Parliament, which was adopted as the final stage of the modelling.
Our European Cultural Heritage and the Identity of National Communities on the agenda in the House of Parliament
29 November 2024
This year the series of parliamentary events linked to the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2024 finishes with the Interparliamentary Conference on Cultural Heritage and the Identity of National Communities on 4-5 December 2024. Complementing the series of interparliamentary conferences held so far, given the importance of the topic, the event is organised by the Hungarian National Assembly as an optional programme of the Hungarian presidency's parliamentary dimension. The event, expected to be attended by 150 people, provides a framework for interparliamentary debate on current European issues concerning the situation and challenges of national communities and the presentation of good practices in the corresponding policies.
