President Novák declares 2024 the Year of Movement

President Katalin Novák declared 2024 the “Year of Movement” in a declaration signed on Thursday.

In the declaration signed in Gyula, in south-east Hungary, Novák asked public servants and the civil society to aid people in ensuring access to sports and to “help put personal decisions to live a healthy, active life into reality”, Sándor Palace said in a statement. Novák pledged to support all initiatives to that end, the statement said.

“Committed to promoting sports, daily activity and a healthy and active lifestyle, and to promoting the active rest of Hungarian families — and in view of the fact of UEFA Euro 2024 football championships and the Summer Olympics — I declare 2024 the year of movement,” the declaration said.

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Novák meets Moldovan PM in SE Hungary

President Katalin Novák met Dorin Recean, the prime minister of Moldova, in south-eastern Hungary on Thursday.

The meeting took place in the historic castle of Gyula, where Novák set up her office during a three-day visit to Bekes County. She told Recean she liked to visit rural areas regularly “to get to know the people living there, the beauty of the area and the local difficulties”.

The meeting with Recean is the first with a foreign dignitary to take place during one of her visits, she added.

Gyula is also a sister city of the Moldovan city of Balti, she added.

The Sándor Palace said Novák had discussed bilateral economic and political ties and their stance on “current crisis regions” such as Ukraine.