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.
Coordination Conference in Naples
10:09 October 31, 2023
On 26 October, the NATO Joint Force Command Naples (NATO JFCNP) organized the 2023 Southern Commanders’ Coordination Conference (SCCC). The Hungarian Defence Forces were represented at the event by Brigadier General Balázs Szloszjár, Commander, HDF General Staff Joint Operations Command and Control Centre.
Two hundred Hungarian troops can serve in Chad
10:35 October 30, 2023
At the invitation of the President of Chad, a military mission would be sent to the African country, in the framework of which a maximum of 200 Hungarian troops would serve there starting from the spring of 2024 – this was what Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said at the 25 October session of the National Assembly, in the general debate of a motion on the military engagement of the Hungarian Defence Forces in Chad.
Hungarian Chief of Defence visits Türkiye
10:29 October 30, 2023
General Dr. Gábor Böröndi, Chief of HDF General Staff paid an official visit to Ankara between 24-26 October. During the program, the Hungarian Chief of Defence was received by Turkish Minister of National Defence Yaşar Güler and General Metin Gürak, Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces.
Collective war grave care in Southern Poland
18:53 October 24, 2023
A working group from the War Grave Care and Hero Worship Directorate of the MoD Military History Institute and Museum (MoD MHIM WHD) was tending to war graves in WWI military cemeteries in the area of Lesser Poland Voivodeship between 5 and 7 October.
EU helicopter capability development in Pápa
18:48 October 24, 2023
Between 2–20 October, the European Defence Agency Helicopter Tactics Instructor Course (EDA HTIC) took place on the HDF 47th Air Base in Pápa, Hungary.
First Hungarian peacekeepers return home from Lebanon
18:42 October 24, 2023
On 19 October, a homecoming ceremony was organized for the first rotation of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeeping mission in the Maria Theresa barracks, Budapest.
Meeting of Chiefs of Defence in Spain
13:49 October 24, 2023
On 17-18 October, the Chiefs of Defence of the European Union Military Committee (EUMC) met for the first time outside Belgium, in Sevilla, Spain. Hungary was represented at the event by General Dr. Gábor Böröndi, Chief of the HDF General Staff, who attended the sessions together with Major General Tamás Sándor, Hungary’s military representative.
“Our country has invested a lot of energy into sport”
13:44 October 24, 2023
World Aquatics, the international organization bringing together water sports held its award ceremony for the swimming athletes of the year at the site of its future Budapest headquarters on 23 October.
International concentrated fire on Hajdúhadház shooting range
12:55 October 19, 2023
“Knife-throwing, descending down a cliff by rappelling, water crossing, vehicle push, litter-carry, overcoming a contaminated terrain sector, memory tests and surprise tasks” – this was how Lieutenant Colonel Ákos Kreácsik, Commander, HDF 2nd Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Regiment listed the events of this year’s Saint Martin International Reconnaissance Competition. The participants are to carry out the above-mentioned tasks during the three-day competition, which involves military units from seven Central European countries, among them two Hungarian ones.
Government submits proposal for launching military mission in Chad
12:48 October 19, 2023
Acting on behalf of the government of Hungary, the Ministry of Defence has submitted a draft resolution to the National Assembly for launching a military mission in Chad. Last week, Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky already presented the plan of the military mission.