Dr. Árpád Vidoven
21:15 May 24, 2022Personal data:
Name: dr. Árpád Vidoven
Date of birth: 12.09.1974.
Marital status: married, with two children
Foreign language skills: English intermediate
Professional activities:
from 30 July 2019
Ministry of Defence, 7-11 Balaton u., Budapest, 1055 - Administrative State Secretary
2018-2019
Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister, 1 Színház u., Budapest 1014 - Administrative State Secretary
2013-2018
Prime Minister's Office 1-3 Kossuth tér, Budapest 1055 - Senior Political Advisor,
Administrative State Secretary since 15 June 2014
2013
Dr. Árpád Vidoven Law Office 27 Magyar u., Cegléd 2700, lawyer (legal profession suspended)
2002-2012
Gór-Nagy and Vidoven Law Office 27 Magyar u., Cegléd 2700, lawyer
1998-2002
Dr. István Gór-Nagy, lawyer, sole practitioner 27 Magyar u., Cegléd 2700, clerk
Public offices held:
1998-2006 Member of Parliament
1998-2006 Parliamentary notary
Positions held in business organizations:
Paks II Nuclear Power Plant Private Company Limited by Shares. Company registration number: 17-10-001282
Member of the Supervisory Board: 08.12-2014 - 03.08.2015
Member of the Board of Directors: since 03.08.2015
Imre Steindl Program Nonprofit Private Limited Company, Company registration number: 01-10-049150
Member of the Board of Directors: since 19.12.2016
MVM Energy Private Limited Liability Company, Company registration number: 01-10-041828
Member of the Supervisory Board: since 28.05.2021
MVM Services Private Limited Company, Company registration number: 01-10-048351
Member of the Supervisory Board: 03.08.2015 – 30.06.2021.
WiSENT 2HU on First Mission – Hungarian Soldiers on International Stage
15:02 October 20, 2025
A battle tank rolled over, a combat vehicle suffered an accident during rail loading, a truck in the ditch – fortunately, all these were parts of an exercise.
Capability shortfalls are past history
14:37 October 20, 2025
For the fifth time, the HDF 47th Air Base in Pápa is providing Host Nation Support to one of the most important training programs of the Multinational Helicopter Training Centre (MHTC), which is located at Sintra Air Base in Portugal. This event is the Helicopter Tactics Instructor Course (HTIC), whose professional day was held on 15 October.
Joint medical challenges, joint solutions
12:58 October 20, 2025
The 32nd Multinational Military Medical Engagement (MMME) was recently held in Lisbon, Portugal. The primary objectives of the organization are to strengthen interoperability, promote innovation and international cooperation and develop the military medical capabilities and capacities of allied and partner countries. The prestigious international event took place at the Portuguese Military Academy, and was organized by the 68th Theater Medical Command, the Portuguese Ministry of National Defence and the Portuguese Department of Military Medical Services.
Hungary is an active contributor to NATO’s efforts towards security
11:44 October 16, 2025
We trust that similarly to the Middle East, President Trump’s peace efforts will succeed in Ukraine, too. Creating peace is in Hungary’s fundamental national interest. NATO is a defence alliance aimed at maintaining peace, one of the main pillars of which is NATO’s credible deterrence posture. And the real basis of this deterrence posture is provided by committed and reliable allies such as Hungary – stated Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky following the Meetings of NATO Ministers of Defence in Brussels on 15 October.
Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky: The government’s aim is to establish a highly digitized force
15:01 October 15, 2025
The government’s aim is to ensure that Hungary has 21st-century quality, highly digitized armed forces, which take care of humans even more and mobilize technology in the interest of defence – stated Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky at the designated event Space & Defense Day of Infotér Conference in Balatonfüred.
Attention from high above
11:41 October 15, 2025
The students of the 46th International Military Observers’ Course are spending the last week of their training. While at the HDF 86th Helicopter Wing in Szolnok, they took off aboard a H225M helicopter to practice aerial reconnaissance.
Soaring up together
11:37 October 15, 2025
During the Helicopter Tactics Instructors Course (HTIC) 2025, rotorcrafts of the participating nations took to the sky together for the first time. The composite air operation (COMAO) was carried out with the support of fighter aircraft and land forces.
The Hungarian Defence Forces Passed with Flying Colours
13:26 October 14, 2025
Hungary is not drifting but is working well-preparedly, thoughtfully and by a pre-defined strategy to defend our country and guarantee the security of the Hungarian people. Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025 is an important element in armed forces development, underlined Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky in his latest video posted on social media.
Transport on the battlefield
12:57 October 14, 2025
On the Distinguished Visitors’ (DV) Day of Exercise Safety Transport 2025, a company consisting of German, Czech and Hungarian platoons was operating in the framework of a complex logistic transport mission to demonstrate its capability of executing loading and transportation tasks on the battlefield. On 13 October, representatives of the three nations observed a display of the military logistic exercise on the Tatárszentgyörgy shooting range and training area of the Hungarian Defence Forces Joint Forces Training Centre.
Safe and precise transportation
13:08 October 13, 2025
During the logistic Exercise Safety Transport 2025, German, Czech and Hungarian platoons are moving at company level under a joint command. Besides training tasks, they are strengthening their transportation capabilities by meeting the requirements of the NATO-framed joint, whole-of-government, country defence Exercise Adaptive Hussars 2025.