"While most travel agencies take a bath from flood problems, Hungary's Popeye travel agency has been offering "Disaster Holidays". They might want to work on the name a bit."
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"Blue1 has opened new routes from Helsinki to European cities such as Athens, Barcelona and Rome, and is due to raise the number of destinations to 24 when it starts a flight to Budapest in May."
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"They underscored the importance of activating business contacts between the two countries and determining specific fields of interaction between Armenia and Hungary."

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"The member states have been ordered to bring their legislation into conformity with the directive, and have two months to reply to the formal notification. States failing to do so face threats that the EC will proceed with a formal infringement process."

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"Dr. Alan Hirsch, M.D., F.A.C.P., founder of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, Ill., published a research article in 2005 in which he stated
that people “tend to be happier, and perhaps even more optimistic in an environment with a pleasing odor. Smells are one of the quickest ways to change mood and emotion, and can induce memories.”
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"Accenture will provide a unified IT platform, delivering services from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Hungary. The deal is part of Unilever's "One Unilever" program, which is designed to deliver annual savings of $846.86 million (Euro 700million)."


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"A company based in Barrowby is helping people get cheap dental treatment in Budapest. Hungarian Szilvi Sipocz, who lives in Barrowby with partner Andrew Pacey, has set up Dentistry Abroad to arrange dental appointments for people who struggle to find a dentist or want to save money."
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"The Sedici is designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro in conjunction with Fiat’s own central styling facility and it is the end product of collaboration between Fiat and Suzuki. The Sedici, and the similar Suzuki SX4, are built and Suzuki’s new production facility in Hungary where a combined total of 60,000 units will be built this year, 40,000 for Suzuki and 20,000 for Fiat."
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"The release of March budget gap data disrupted the Finance Ministry's series of lower-than-expected deficit figures, a period of several months during deficit figures were HUF 30 billion-HUF 50 billion lower than planned in each month.
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"The Hungarian Democratic Forum, which emerged as a potential kingmaker after the first round of Hungary's election, will not help the bigger right of centre opposition party, Fidesz, by pulling candidates in round two. "The presidency proposes to the candidates not to withdraw in the second round," party leader Ibolya David told journalists."


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"Some 314 schools of dance and 11 countries including Austria, Hungary, France and the USA are represented in Belfast. More than 2,000 solo competitors and 2,000 team dancers will take part in the eight days of events."

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"...in Hungary the Britain team will face 11 countries that finished ahead of them at the big events of the past two summers. The average number of medals they have won at the Europeans since 1927 is five. The best result, four golds among 11 medals in 1958, offers a happy omen: it unfolded in Budapest."

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"Gabor Demszky, the mayor of Budapest, today called on drivers to use public transport during the flood crisis."
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"Inspector Jacques Clouseau, a name that strikes fear into the hearts of criminals everywhere — and anyone else he comes across as well. Maybe it’s because his deductive powers are so inadequate, his grasp of the obvious so elusive, his command of the language so severely limited and his physical coordination so completely lacking."
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"AS Hungarians go to the polls on Sunday for the first round of a twostage election process, most opinion polls put the Socialists marginally ahead of chief rival, the center-right Fidesz."
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