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Budapest to host CPAC, conference of the American right again this year

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Budapest will again play host to a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), on May 4-5, the event organiser said on Tuesday.

The keynote speaker of the event organised in partnership with the American Conservative Union will again be Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the Centre for Fundamental Rights said on Facebook.

CPAC’s first forum in Europe focusing on the values expressed in the motto “God, Homeland, Family” was held in Budapest in 2022, the centre noted. The event brought together some 1,500 participants including 200 foreign decision-makers, journalists and influencers, it added.

CPAC Hungary this year will focus on “the international community-building of national forces, a nightmare of the liberals,” the centre said.

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George Soros skips the annual meeting of global elite in Davos – why?

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Once again, the world elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum conference. They discussed the most important international issues, with war and climate change at the centre of the talks. People, however, are more concerned about those who missed the meeting. George Soros is one of them. People have made up some stories as to why he missed the conference. Some conspiracies are absolutely mind-blowing.

Where is George Soros?

This is one question that is on the minds of the public in connection with the World Economic Forum (WEF) conference in Davos, rtl.hu reports. The absence of the billionaire is odd because in previous years, Soros has been a regular participant at the conference. He has also given speeches.

 

 

This year, he missed the forum due to an “unavoidable scheduling conflict”. In the wake of this, right-wing conspiracy theorists have begun theorising that the billionaire has taken an important step on the road to a new world order and that “something is up”.

Republican candidate James Bradley of California reacted to Soros’ announcement. He tweeted “Something is up…” and several of his party colleagues suggested that the billionaire might be about to take some drastic action. But what? The ‘answer’ was not provided by party people, but by right-wing opinion leaders, rtl.hu writes. According to Josh Read, head of the Redpill Project, “a major security or terror crisis could be on the cards in Davos this week”.

Hungarian foreign minister Szijjártó was there

However, Péter Szijjártó was present at the conference. He represented the Hungarian government in Davos for the first time during his time in office. The foreign minister spoke about the conflict between East and West. He pointed out that cooperation has become a “distant dream”. “Our government clearly does not represent the liberal mainstream, but is right-wing, patriotic and Christian-democratic, which is not a common phenomenon in Europe.” According to him, “the liberal mainstream will therefore always criticise the leadership, but it must be respected that the last four elections have been won by the governing parties by a landslide”.

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PHOTOS: 8th Friends of Hungary conference opened in Budapest

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János Csák, the minister of culture and innovation, opened a conference organised by the Friends of Hungary Foundation for the eighth time in Budapest on Friday.

Belonging to a community, care, balance and security are among the values that have been at the heart of the decisions of the civic governments in power since 2010, the minister said.

Csák said that 95 percent of the decisions made by the civic governments served the four eternal “human values” that are independent of time and space. “We want as many people as possible, as many Hungarians as possible, to benefit from them,” he said.

In his welcome speech, Szilveszter E. Vízi, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 2002 and 2008 and now head of the foundation, said that the participants arriving from 25 countries on five continents are united by their love of Hungary, irrespective of whether they are Hungarians or not.

“It is culture that brings us together,” he said.

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Several US journalists were denied access to the CPAC Hungary!

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The two-day CPAC Hungary (Conservative Political Action Conference Hungary), a conservative gathering (which is also referred to as the Hungarian mini edition of the annual super-conference of the American right) in Budapest, started on Thursday morning. The Centre for Fundamental Rights, the Hungarian organiser banned virtually all media outlets from the event that were not part of the Hungarian public media or KESMA (Central European Press and Media Foundation).

Who was allowed to enter?

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Viktor Orbán arrives at the conference with his political director Balázs Orbán and Matt Schlapp, President of the American Conservative Union. Source: Facebook/Alapjogokért Központ

MTI, public media, Hír TV and other KESMA journalists were welcomed with open arms. This was quite obvious since

the CEO of the Centre for Fundamental Rights is the leader of KESMA as well.

However, many other press outlets were denied access to the conference. This was particularly the case for American journalists who came here just for the event and were not yet familiar with the Hungarian media environment.

Vice reports that all US journalists outside the Bálna Cultural Centre were denied entry on Thursday morning despite months of attempts to obtain press credentials for the conference.

And who was denied access?

In addition to Vice, journalists from Rolling Stone, Vox and the New Yorker were also turned away. RTL Híradó talked to Jonathan Krohn, a journalist for Rolling Stone, who said that he had not been allowed in despite having been promised to do so by the US organiser of the event, the American Conservative Union which is also the organiser of the ‘real’ CPAC.

Krohn explained that they had been forced to leave the area around the gate by two large security guards, and added that everyone was allowed into CPAC events in the US,

so this may have to do with the way the Orbán regime works.

According to Telex, journalists from Reuters, the Guardian and the Associated Press, in addition to those mentioned above, tried in vain to gain press access and enter the event. When it comes to the Western press, only an AFP (Agence France-Presse) photographer was able to gain access.

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The only consolation, as Telex put it, was that the Centre for Fundamental Rights was webcasting the conference, so even those who could not attend were able to follow the events.

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US orgs held conference on transatlantic relations in Budapest

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The United States’ International Republican Institute and The Heritage Foundation held a joint conference on transatlantic relations in Budapest on Saturday.

Addressing the conference, former Hungarian foreign minister Janos Martonyi said Europe needs to grow stronger and more secure.

James Carafano, vice president of The Heritage Foundation, said it was important for there to be a lively debate about transatlantic relations in Budapest, too, not just in places like Brussels, Paris or Berlin.

Jan Surotchak, a senior director at the International Republican Institute, called for a rethink of the foundations of transatlantic ties.

The conference was organised by Réka Szemerkényi, a senior advisor at the International Republican Institute and Hungary’s former ambassador to the US.

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Minister: government has more Republican than W European friends

Gergely Gulyás PM chief of staff addressing CPAC in Budapest

The Hungarian government has, in terms of ideology, “more friends in the US Republican Party than in Western Europe”, Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest on Friday.

In his keynote speech to the second day of the conference Gulyás said the Republicans were “significantly closer” to the government’s approach because “the Western European Christian Democratic Right has accepted that directions are set out by the Left, most recently by the Greens, and they are trying to abide by those laws”.

“When the European Parliament passes a decree that

men could give birth,

it is no wonder that many of us will feel that the Liberal-Green-Left mainstream of the continent is now very far from us,” Gulyás said. It is easy to offer an alternative, though, he said, and mentioned the Hungarian constitution for example, which stipulates that “a father shall be a man, and a mother woman”.

“The absurd is no longer far away from reality in Europe,” Gulyás insisted, adding that it was “extremely important” to clearly define “political positions, opinions, and unquestionable and evident truths without which you cannot make politics”.

The government, he said, had “done very much to ensure that Hungary has evident truths and that nobody should question them”.

After the political regime change in 1989 “former supporters of the communist dictatorship were busy defining liberal democracy”, he insisted, adding that “they hate the government because… it has won the fourth consecutive election against them since 2010”.

Hungary now has “clear and fundamental rules” such as promoting economic competitiveness and “offering everyone an opportunity to work”, he said. In 2010, the government abolished a system of benefits which “looked communist, especially from the US” and launched public works schemes. As a result of government measures an

unemployment rate of 12 percent has now been reduced to 3.5 percent, with one million more people working now than a decade ago,

he insisted.

Concluding his speech, Gulyás wished US Republicans good results in the November interim elections, and expressed his hope that Hungary would continue to have “a conservative government which the US governments could consider a partner”.

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Conservative conference in Budapest: here is what Trump said

Trump addressing the CPAC conference in Budapest

Conservatives are “looking to stop a lot of the problems that are going on in the world, including in the United States,” former US President Donald Trump said in a video message to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest on Friday, citing “socialism and even communism” as examples.

Trump thanked Hungary’s Centre for Fundamental Rights, the American Conservative Union and CPAC for the opportunity to address the event.

“It’s really been a fight, and you had a fight, and you’re doing fantastically well and everybody appreciates it,” the former president said. “Also,

CPAC Hungary, we are very close, as you know, all of us, to Viktor Orbán. He’s a great leader, a great gentleman, and he just had a very big election result. I was very honoured to have endorsed him.”

“A little unusual endorsement,” Trump said. “Usually I’m looking at the fifty states, but here we went a little bit astray. And I did that only because he really is a good man and

he’s done a fantastic job for his country,”

he said of Orbán.

“But it’s just an honour to be with you, even if it’s only briefly, even if it’s just doing it the way we’re doing it right now, and one of these days soon we’ll all be together,” Trump said. “Just keep up the good work, keep up the fight, and I will see you soon!”

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met today Tom Van Grieken, head of the Belgian Vlaams Belang party, at the Castle District premises of the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday, the PM’s press chief said. Van Grieken is in Budapest to address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Bertalan Havasi told MTI.

Van Grieken is in Budapest to address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Bertalan Havasi told MTI. Orbán and Van Grieken were in agreement that

Europe’s conservative parties needed to unite to protect the traditional European way of life

based on nations, families, faith and work.

The prime minister reiterated the view he expressed in his address to CPAC that conservatives needed to take the next two years to prepare so that together they could take back European institutions from the left in the 2024 European parliamentary elections. Friday’s meeting was also attended by Kinga Gál, Fidesz’s deputy leader, and Balázs Orbán, state secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office.

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Budapest to host first Conservative Political Action Conference in Europe

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Budapest will host the first Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in Europe on May 19-20, the director of the Center for Fundamental Rights (AK) said on Thursday.

What is CPAC?

The CPAC is an annual political conference attended by conservative activists and elected officials from across the United States and beyond. CPAC is hosted by the American Conservative Union (ACU). The first CPAC took place in 1974.

The 2022 conference was held on February 24 to 27 in Orlando, Florida. Speakers included former U.S. president Donald Trump, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, and former Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard.

CPAC in Budapest

Miklos Szánthó told a press conference that AK would organise the event jointly with the American Conservative Union, adding that Prime Minister Viktor Orban was asked to be a keynote speaker.

Guests will include former Republican senator Rick Santorum, who ran for the Republican nomination in the 2012 US presidential election, former Czech President Vaclav Klaus, head of the Freedom Party of Austria Herbert Kickl, and head of the Belgian Vlaams Belang Tom Van Grieken.

The event will also be attended by MPs and MEPs from Austria, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, and US congressmen. US media personalities Ben Ferguson and Candace Owens have also accepted invitations.

The conference will be joined online by British politician Nigel Farage, head of Spain’s VOX party Santiago Abascal and US media personality Tucker Carlson.

The event was originally scheduled to take place in late March but has been postponed due to the war in Ukraine.

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Hungary attends World Forestry Congress in Seoul

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Forests are in the focus of Hungary’s fight against climate change, Sándor Szentpéteri, Hungary’s deputy state secretary in charge of the country’s woods, told the 15th World Forestry Congress in Seoul on Wednesday.

A brief history of the World Forestry Congress

Since the first World Forestry Congress was held in Rome in 1926, about every six years, the Congress has been providing a forum for inclusive discussion on the key challenges and way forward for the forestry sector. In 1954, FAO was entrusted with supporting Congress preparations in close cooperation with the host country and proudly continues to do so today. More information on past Congresses can be found here.

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The agriculture ministry quoted Szentpeteri as voicing agreement with the aim of the congress, to promote a green and sustainable future by way of cultivating forests.

Concerning Hungary’s achievements, the official said the country had doubled its wooded areas in the past decade, noting that a programme launched in recent years had given new impetus to those efforts.

By 2030, Hungary aims to increase the ratio of its woodlands to 27 percent of its total area, Szentpéteri said.

He also stressed the importance of cultivating existing woodlands lest they should “fall victim to the impacts of climate change”.

The Hungarian delegation to the conference is mostly interested in sustainable forestry and circular forest management, as well as in opportunities for cooperation concerning the application of Hungary’s experience in desert afforestation, the statement said.

The conference, held every six years, is attended by 12,000 participants.

Budapest’s BME hosts one of Europe’s largest international university conferences!

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The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) hosts one of Europe’s largest international university conferences that opened on Thursday, the university said.

The two-day conference will dedicate a separate session to the war in Ukraine with topics including the consequences of the war to the academic sector and aiding academics and fellows forced to leave the country and their homes. Other topics include university autonomy, collective thinking and the freedom of learning, BME said in a statement.

The conference is attended by 400 participants including 72 university rectors and 96 deputy rectors, it said.

Hungary is a safe country to visit

Altogether 27 patients died of a Covid-related illness over the past 24 hours, while 1,736 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Thursday. So far 6,406,412 people have received a first jab, while 6,192,470 have been double-jabbed. Fully 3,862,707 Hungarians have received a booster third shot and 286,455 a fourth shot.

The number of active infections dropped further, to 51,631, while hospitals are treating 1,437 Covid-19 patients, 36 of whom are intubated on a ventilator.

Since the first outbreak, 1,899,633 have been registered with the virus, while 46,189 deaths have been recorded. Fully 1,801,813 people have made a recovery.

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Barack Obama: Hungary is an authoritarian regime

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In his speech last week, Barack Obama was highly critical of Hungary.

The speech

The 44th President of the United States of America gave a speech on the creation and consumption of information. He also talked about the challenges that disinformation poses to America and democracy. His presentation was entitled “Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm”.

He delivered his speech at a professional conference jointly organised by the Cyber Policy Centre at Stanford University and the Obama Foundation on April 21.

Obama mentioned Hungary, among many other things, criticising the government.

As Portfolio reported, during his hour-long speech at the university, Obama outlined the threat to democracy posed by online disinformation, including deepfake technology powered by artificial intelligence and how he believes the problems can be tackled in the US and abroad.

“I’ve already seen demonstrations of deepfake technology that show what looks like me on a screen saying stuff I did not say. It’s a strange experience, people,”

Obama recalled his experience.

Hungary on the list of authoritarian regimes

As we can read in nyugatifeny.hu’s article, Obama gave examples of how social media is fuelling violence and extremism around the world.

“Authoritarian regimes and strongmen around the world from China to Hungary, the Philippines. Brazil have learned to conscript social media platforms to turn their own populations against groups they don’t like, whether it’s ethnic minorities, the LGBTQ community, journalists, political opponents,”

Obama said.

“And of course, autocrats like Putin have used these platforms as a strategic weapon against democratic countries that they consider a threat,”

he added.

Obama also criticised the political state of his own country. He highlighted the events following the 2020 elections. After Joe Biden’s victory, with a few exceptions, Republican Party politicians communicated without evidence of electoral fraud, increasing polarisation and tensions between citizens.

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Take a look at the future National Circus Arts Centre in Budapest!

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As Europe’s leading centre for circus arts, Hungary is hosting the world’s first scientific conference on circus buildings. A model of the National Circus Arts Centre building was also presented at the conference.

Between 12 and 17 January, the XIV. Budapest International Circus Festival takes place at the Budapest Grand Circus. As an overture, organisers held a scientific and professional conference on circus buildings at the Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday. Several foreign circus arts experts took part in the conference.

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The mock-up of the circus building named Csodagömb (Magic Globe). Source: Zoltán Balogh/MTI

The conference and the exhibition

As PestBuda reported, participants had the chance to learn about the history of circus buildings in Europe. What is more, organisers opened an exhibition in the Baroque Hall of the Museum of Fine Arts to mark the occasion.

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At this exhibition, participants could observe a mock-up of the National Circus Arts Centre. The building will be under construction next to Nyugati Railway Station in the near future. Visitors could also get to know the new circus building and the artists’ training institute that will be built as part of the Circus Arts Centre.

“For the first time in the world, Hungary, as Europe’s leading centre of circus arts, is hosting a scientific conference on circus buildings and a conference on circus education,”

shared Péter Fekete, State Secretary for Culture and Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Budapest International Circus Festival.

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About the National Circus Arts Centre

The government adopted a decision to build the Centre as an investment of key national economic importance in February 2021.

The new Circus Arts Centre will have the following parts: a new circus building and an artist training school. The former will be built on a long-vacant site next to Nyugati Railway Station, and the latter will be converted from an old railway hangar.

Kornél Almássy, Director of the Hungarian Museum of Architecture, said the following about the exhibition:

“With the help of numerous models, blueprints, maps, and other documents, as well as works of art, the exhibition reviews the history of Hungarian circus art and architecture and also looks to the future of the National Circus Arts Centre.”

As we wrote in one of our previous articles, many of the world’s top circus performers view Hungary as a refuge. The reason for this is that all over the world, circuses closed due to the pandemic situation. However, they remained open in Hungary.

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Brussels should stop practices that result in the alienation of member states, says Minister Varga

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The key to the future of Europe is the enlargement of the European Union and it must be understood that the Western Balkans are “a member of the European family” in terms of geography, history and economy, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Monday.

Varga told the international forum “Dialogue on the Future of Europe: Is enlargement a key to the future?” that Brussels should stop practices that result in the alienation of member states.

“The time has come for welcoming new countries in our community and build a stronger EU based on stronger nations,”

she told the conference organised by the foreign ministry and the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law.

She called for starting accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia without delay and consultations with Serbia and Montenegro before the end of the year.

Olivér Várhelyi, the EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, said enlargement was the “EU’s strategic response to its own development”, adding that good relations with its neighbours were key to the EU’s future.

The “European perspective” is an engine of consolidation in the region and contributes to more resilient countries and economic and social welfare, he said.

“The EU can only become stronger if it fully integrates the Western Balkans… It was key that the new European Commission has declared enlargement a priority to break the impasse,”

he said.

The EU has also developed an economic development plan which will pump 30 billion euros of funding into region. The flagship projects will be in energy industry, transport, green energy resources and broadband networks, the commissioner said. The EU has also provided 3.3 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines to the Western Balkans, he added.

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Minister: Hungary will remain in the EU with heads held high!

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Out of the 395 registered events in the conference series on the future of Europe, Hungary is holding the most from among EU member states, Judit Varga, the justice minister, said on Facebook on Wednesday.
 
Varga said this was further proof of Hungary’s commitment to exchanging of views on the future of the bloc for which the opinion of Hungarians was indispensable.
 
In her English-language post, she wrote: “Those who keep crying wolf and accuse us of being anti-EU or eurosceptic must be in big trouble now. Greetings also to those key politicians of the European ‘models’ who have so far tried to expel us from the community!”   
 
“We will stay. With heads held high, clear ideas and a competitive vision.
 
We are not going anywhere. Because we want to keep the Union as it was when we joined it,” she added.
 
 
“Sensible and respectful” dialogue between East and the West is “always best for us Hungarians and central Europeans”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in a video published on Facebook on Wednesday.
 
In his video recorded during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Latvia, Szijjártó said:
 
“Hungary has no interest whatsoever in a new Cold War
 
or in engendering a psychotic state reminiscent of a Cold War,” adding that even such a state would “seriously harm our national security interests”.
 
 
Hungary, he added, supported all NATO and European Union initiatives aimed at creating further communication channels “between East and West, between Russia and NATO, and between Russia and the EU,” the minister said. “We have an interest in resolving problems through dialogue, through diplomatic channels,” Szijjarto added.

International pharma conference DDRS 2021 opens in Budapest

International pharma conference DDRS 2021 opens in Budapest

President János Áder opened an event dubbed International Conference on Advances in Pharmaceutical Drug Development, Quality Control and Regulatory Sciences (DDRS 2021) in Budapest on Monday.

Áder, who is the chief patron of the event, said that Hungary had considerable traditions in drug development and manufacturing and the country’s pharmaceutical industry was among the strongest in Europe.

He cited

the company Richter Gedeon which celebrated its 120th anniversary this year and currently produces some 200 types of drugs sold in 80 countries.

Semmelweis University rector Béla Merkely told the event that it attracted representatives from 45 countries, offering a good opportunity for expert meetings, the exchange of international knowledge and establishing new ties.

One of the university’s main research targets is early diagnostics and therapy, which is closely related to the conference’s theme, he added.

Imre Klebovich, the chairman of the event, said that the conference had been postponed twice because of Covid but the current event attracted some 250 experts from five continents.

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European justice ministers’ conference held in Gödöllő

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Whereas digitalisation and artificial intelligence offer “the greatest opportunities of our time”, they also present huge challenges to judicial systems, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Tuesday ahead of a conference of her Council of Europe counterparts.

Both private individuals and businesses rightly expect the authorities to provide fast and efficient services, the minister told journalists in Gödöllő, outside Budapest, ahead of the meeting held as part of Hungary’s presidency of the Council of Europe, adding that this is why electronic services must be expanded. Varga said

Hungary was “at the forefront” of the European Union in terms of digitalising its judiciary, as reflected by the European Commission’s judicial scoreboard.

Each EU member has its own solutions to challenges posed by digitalisation and artificial intelligence, she said. “But it’s important to establish minimum standards that will help when it comes to linking those systems” in order to ensure smoothness for citizens doing business in another country, Varga added.

Regarding controls over artificial intelligence in the judiciary, the minister emphasised the importance of data protection and fair treatment while “observing all high human rights guarantees”.

Areas in which “the human element must be retained” need to be identified, she added.

The Hungarian justice ministry is working to build a uniform registry of legal entities in order to improve the country’s judicial competitiveness while developing services available through mobile applications — “a certain m-government rather than e-government”, the minister said.

The conference is being attended by delegations of 38 countries and Marija Pejcinovic Buric, the CoE’s secretary general within the framework of the Hungarian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe which lasts until Nov. 17.

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Collegium Hungaricum Berlin to host Europe’s first literary translation festival!

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The Collegium Hungaricum cultural institute in Berlin will host Europe’s first literary translation festival featuring round table discussions, workshops, concerts and a photo exhibition on the weekend, the institute said on Wednesday.

The three-day event dubbed Translationale Berlin will explore literary translation as a creative process and its transmitter role. It will also discuss questions whether a literary translator can apply “an own voice”, what makes a translation good, who decides which works constitute world literature and what is the world of world literature like.
 
The programme also includes discussions about the issue of online translation programmes
 
versus traditional translation work by experts, the emergence and impact of Globish, a form of simplified ‘global English’, as well as literary translation issues in connection with Hungarian as a unique language, CHB said.
 
 

Meanwhile, Pope Francis thanked Cardinal Péter Erdő, head of the Hungarian Catholic Church, for organising the 52th International Eucharistic Congress, recently held in Budapest, in a letter released to MTI on Wednesday. Francis voiced his appreciation for “the hidden and quiet cooperation of many – bishops, priests and church staff – , which made it possible for participants to renew their souls in the eucharist, which is the source of love and faith”.

The pontiff thanked Erdo for his “proposing good solutions to the problems and challenges occurring through the organisation of the congress”.

The pope said that he would pray for the cardinal and his archdiocese, and sent his greetings to its priests, monks and nuns, asking for God’s blessing on their mission. The congress was held in Budapest between September 5 and 12, with Francis celebrating the closing mass in Heroes’ Square.

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