Hungary’s public media provider MTVA’s innovation and dedication is evident in its professional standards and its family-friendly orientation, the state secretary for families said at a family day held at the company’s headquarters on Saturday.
Ágnes Hornung, state secretary for families of the ministry of culture and innovation, and Andrea Bartos, head of the Family-Friendly Hungary Centre, handed over a certificate to MTVA, the Media Services and Support Trust Fund, which the company has won for a second time.
Ensuring a work-life balance “is a key plank of the government’s family-friendly policy”, Hornung said, noting government schemes to ensure nursery places, family-friendly developments, as well as recognising work that helps families.
In the past 15 years, the government has brought about more than 30 measures and family support schemes, she noted. As a result, there are more and more family-friendly workplaces, she said, praising MTVA for the diversity of its programming and its fostering of a family-friendly atmosphere.
Dániel Papp, the public service company’s chief executive, said it was “a joy and honour” for the company to receive the recognition once again.
He said management strove to create a welcoming and homely environment where staff could feel good, and he mentioned numerous family-friendly programmes aimed at supporting employees.
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Of course not. Hungary is not a family friendly country. If Victor Orban really tried to achieve this, he failed miserably
It’s an uphill battle. It’s not just about tax breaks, work-life balance, affordability, etc. The biggest problem is that people today are more selfish, self-centered, and hedonistic than ever before. They don’t want responsibility nor do they think about perpetuating their family line and leaving a legacy. They are living in the moment, overwhelmed with vapid ten-second video clips on TicTac, with the most profound thought being what, where, and how they’re going to buy the next electronic gizmo, branded clothing, or vacation, and, of course, post pictures of the same on the ‘Gram. A kid, let alone 3-4, would throw a massive wrench in the whole works. How do you even begin pushing back against that? I honestly don’t know…
@michaelsteiner – agree it is a conundrum. However, judging by data and facts, throwing money at the challenges (policies, schemes, and tax breaks) has not had the desired effect, in Hungary.
Speaking of policies that work – France, whereas they still fall short of the replacement rate, appear to be the outperformers in the EU!
To join the Eurozone, Hungary will need to meet certain economic conditions. These are set out in Article 140 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (convergence criteria) and Protocol (No 13) on the convergence criteria (Treaty on the Functioning of the EU).
There are four economic convergence criteria.
1. Price stability
The inflation rate cannot be higher than 1.5 percentage points above the rate of the three best-performing Member States.
2. Sound and sustainable public finances
The country should not be under the excessive deficit procedure.
There is not currently one ongoing for Hungary: https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-and-fiscal-governance/stability-and-growth-pact/corrective-arm-excessive-deficit-procedure/closed-excessive-deficit-procedures/hungary_en . HOWEVER our Politicians were sort of enthusiastic as to representing how Hungary would perform – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52023DC0631 …
These rules will be applied more stringently, going forward. Given the rise and, uh. Rise of our national debt, it should be fun to see how our Politicians explain how they plan to bring the rate of spending under control to the EU Commission.
3. Exchange-rate stability
The country has to participate in the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II) for at least two years, without strong deviations from the ERM II central rate and without devaluing its currency’s bilateral central rate against the euro in the same period.
4. Long-term interest rates
The long-term interest rate should not be higher than two percentage points above the rate of the three best-performing member states in terms of price stability.
In conclusion: not happening any year soon, we are in too poor an economic state, our Politicians representations notwithstanding (it´s facts and data, stupid!).