Video: Hungarian Teachers Take To Instagram To Protest Pay
- 12 Aug 2019 8:25 AM
Source: Euronews
Source: Euronews
Students, teachers, parents and their supporters gathered on Monday in front of the interior ministry to protest against the firing of the director of the Madach Secondary School in Budapest - as the video below shows.
In an article published in the Financial Times on Tuesday on the occasion of Hungary’s assuming the European Union’s rotating presidency, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán elaborated on the topic of restoring the EU’s competitiveness. He noted that Hungary was now serving its second EU presidency 13 years after its first one.
Hungary has received a total 184 billion forints (EUR 478m) worth of EU funding to be used for a pay hike for kindergarten and school teachers, the finance minister said.
Hungary will stay out of “NATO’s insane action” despite all pressure on the country, the foreign minister said, adding that “it will however be a long fight, in which the upcoming EP election, when people can express their opinion on war or peace, will be an important point”.
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