On Sunday August 6th, 2016 an extremely heavy storm hit the capital of Macedonia and its suburbs causing severe floods. The natural disaster left 22 people dead, at least 70 injured and approximately 1000 people were evacuated because of the life threatening and dangerous living circumstances. The 8th of August was declared national day of mourning.
The awarded Czech, Polish, Slovakian and Hungarian drawings of the “Our world, our dignity, our future” drawing competition were exhibited as part of the Foundation for Africa’s day-long event called “Vízibility Nap” organized as one of the closing events of the European Year for Development.
The year of 2015 is the first among the so-called “European years”, which focuses on the European Union’s external action, global engagement, fighting against poverty. 2015 is also the year, when the Millennium Development Goals’ deadline expires, and the international community has to create the global framework of future endeavors in order to eliminate poverty and forward sustainable development.
As the recognition of the humanitarian relief work of the Embassy of Hungary, the Red Cross in Kiev handed over a certificate to our mission in Kiev
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Hungary continues to support the development of Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia Oblast) with a total amount of 200 million HUF (app. 500 000 USD), which mainly consists of a 155-million-forint framework of investments realised by the Hungarian Cultural Assosiation in Transcarpathia together with the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute. The rest of the financial framework will be allocated by the Hungarian Delegations in Ukraine and would support the Transcarpathian historic churches.
On April 27 and 29, 2015 in the framework of the Hungarian aid programme for IDPs in the value of EUR100.000 in districts of Solomyansk, as well as in Dnipro in Kiev 600 aid packages were distributed among IDP schoolchildren between the age 7-10.
On April 16, 2015 H.E. Ambassador Ernő Keskeny – at his own initiative and accompanied by Defence Attaché Colonel István Tóth – paid a visit to the Central Military Hospital in Kiev where some of the soldiers who received their injuries in the zone of ATO are being treated.
The results of the “European Year for Development” public opinion survey undertaken in 28 member states in 2013 were recently published.