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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary to visit Bosnia Today March 16, 2021 12:00 PM by Y.Z
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Peter Szijjarto, will visit Bosnia and Herzegovina today and on that occasion hand over a donation from the National Directorate General for Hospitals of Hungary, which consists of 40,032 PCR tests.
These are tests from the manufacturer Maccura, with a total value of 163,850,976 Hungarian forints.
Minister Szijjarto will symbolically hand over the tests to the Minister of Civil Affairs of BiH, Ankica Gudeljevic, and to the representatives of the competent health authorities of the entities and the Brcko District.
Public Education Employees Want to Get Vaccinated ASAP
Public education employees are still unsatisfied with the protection and support the government is providing. One of the teacher’s unions is now demanding answers about their vaccination schedule and additional help, while nursery and kindergarten employees want vaccination priority, along with regular testing since kindergartens have remained open.
It was last Thursday when the government announced the new restrictions that brought school and kindergarten closures (universities and secondary schools had been ordered to continue teaching well before that). This was something teacher’s unions had long wanted.
Daycare has resumed, and since the government wants to recommence with onsite learning in a few weeks, means that public education workers will soon be at high risk for infection.
Debates on the medical use of cannabis and drug liberalization as a whole is certainly back on the agenda in Hungary. Amid a strict drug law and growing international tendencies, the Fidesz-led government still firmly opposes a more lenient stance on the matter. Recently, the government went against the joint EU stance and voted against a UN resolution that would pave the way for the legal use of medical cannabis.
In the latest development, at the 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Kyoto on Monday, the Foreign Minister (who by his own admission, has never drunk either any alcohol, or even coffee) said that “unfortunately, what we see is that Brussels supports not only illegal migration but an increased use of drugs.” He explained that “cannabis has recently been reclassified in the UN as an allegedly non-hazardous substance.”
The proportion of people living in extreme poverty in Hungary dropped to 8.7% in the past decade, the Human Capacities Ministry said, citing Eurostat data.