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Mortgage Debtors Protest In Budapest At Astoria
- 21 Aug 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hundreds of people sat down at the Astoria intersection in Budapest on Tuesday afternoon to promote their demands for a solution to the problems of foreign-currency mortgage debtors. The crowd dispersed peacefully shortly before 8 p.m.
The Constitutional Court In Hungary Suspends New Surveillance Law
- 17 Jul 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday suspended several provisions of a recently passed law allowing surveillance of state officials as an unjustified violation of their right to privacy. The bill submitted by Fidesz MPs Máté Kocsis and Zsolt Csampa would have made it possible to keep senior public servants under surveillance and apply secret service methods to them – such as reading their mail and ...
Xpat Opinion: Council Of Europe Votes Down Proposal To Monitor Hungary
- 1 Jul 2013 1:00 AM
- current affairs
By Ferenc Kumin: An otherwise uneventful week at the end of April brought some quite unusual news: the Council of Europe, the 47-member international organization that promotes cooperation on human rights, rule of law and democracy and not to be confused with the European Union, was considering a proposal that would put Hungary under a formal monitoring procedure and it had passed a committee ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's Tug-Of-War With Brussels
- 21 May 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Commentators unanimously find the protracted tug-of-war between the government and the European Union on constitutional and financial issues harmful, but opinions diverge widely on the causes and the possible solutions.
Minister Of State Győri: Hungary's Critics Should Check Their Facts
- 19 Apr 2013 9:01 AM
- current affairs
The Minister of State for EU Affairs has published an article on euractiv.com in reaction to Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe calling for the application of Article 7.
Xpat Opinion: Singer-Songwriter To Leave Hungary In Distress
- 3 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A left-wing commentator would prefer to see Viktor Orbán leave his country, while his right-wing counterpart criticises Peter Gerendás for making what he describes as his ‘market failure’ a political issue.
Xpat Opinion: New Hungarian Education System: Model Was France
- 25 Feb 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before. Rózsa Hoffmann, the Francophile, most likely turned to the French system when under her stewardship the whole Hungarian primary and secondary education system was turned upside down. Among other things, she wanted children to start their language education with a romance language (clearly she had French in mind) and wanted to discourage the study of ...
Xpat Opinion: The Cooperation Of The Hungarian Opposition In Action
- 18 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Last night’s scandalous interview with three opposition personalities on ATV’s “Szabad szemmel” deserves a post even if it was only three days ago that I wrote an article entitled “Hungarian disunity a barrier to a political solution.”
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's MSZP’s Vision Of The Future: “The Left, Hope, And Strength”
- 4 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Now that MSZP’s leaked “working paper” has become available we have a better idea of what the party leaders have in mind as far as strategy is concerned. Although the MSZP politicians I heard speak about the document emphasized that naturally this is not the final word on the strategy the party will follow in the next year and a half, after reading the text I think it is fairly clear where the ...
Mortgage Debtors Protest In Budapest At Astoria
- 21 Aug 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hundreds of people sat down at the Astoria intersection in Budapest on Tuesday afternoon to promote their demands for a solution to the problems of foreign-currency mortgage debtors. The crowd dispersed peacefully shortly before 8 p.m.
The Constitutional Court In Hungary Suspends New Surveillance Law
- 17 Jul 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday suspended several provisions of a recently passed law allowing surveillance of state officials as an unjustified violation of their right to privacy. The bill submitted by Fidesz MPs Máté Kocsis and Zsolt Csampa would have made it possible to keep senior public servants under surveillance and apply secret service methods to them – such as reading their mail and ...
Xpat Opinion: Council Of Europe Votes Down Proposal To Monitor Hungary
- 1 Jul 2013 1:00 AM
- current affairs
By Ferenc Kumin: An otherwise uneventful week at the end of April brought some quite unusual news: the Council of Europe, the 47-member international organization that promotes cooperation on human rights, rule of law and democracy and not to be confused with the European Union, was considering a proposal that would put Hungary under a formal monitoring procedure and it had passed a committee ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's Tug-Of-War With Brussels
- 21 May 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Commentators unanimously find the protracted tug-of-war between the government and the European Union on constitutional and financial issues harmful, but opinions diverge widely on the causes and the possible solutions.
Minister Of State Győri: Hungary's Critics Should Check Their Facts
- 19 Apr 2013 9:01 AM
- current affairs
The Minister of State for EU Affairs has published an article on euractiv.com in reaction to Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe calling for the application of Article 7.
Xpat Opinion: Singer-Songwriter To Leave Hungary In Distress
- 3 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A left-wing commentator would prefer to see Viktor Orbán leave his country, while his right-wing counterpart criticises Peter Gerendás for making what he describes as his ‘market failure’ a political issue.
Xpat Opinion: New Hungarian Education System: Model Was France
- 25 Feb 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before. Rózsa Hoffmann, the Francophile, most likely turned to the French system when under her stewardship the whole Hungarian primary and secondary education system was turned upside down. Among other things, she wanted children to start their language education with a romance language (clearly she had French in mind) and wanted to discourage the study of ...
Xpat Opinion: The Cooperation Of The Hungarian Opposition In Action
- 18 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Last night’s scandalous interview with three opposition personalities on ATV’s “Szabad szemmel” deserves a post even if it was only three days ago that I wrote an article entitled “Hungarian disunity a barrier to a political solution.”
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's MSZP’s Vision Of The Future: “The Left, Hope, And Strength”
- 4 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Now that MSZP’s leaked “working paper” has become available we have a better idea of what the party leaders have in mind as far as strategy is concerned. Although the MSZP politicians I heard speak about the document emphasized that naturally this is not the final word on the strategy the party will follow in the next year and a half, after reading the text I think it is fairly clear where the ...