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Low Pay Leaves Hungary’s Tax Office NAV Short Of Staff
- 27 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Tax and Customs Office (NAV) is suffering an extremely serious shortage of staff, the weekly Figyelõ reports, referring to a NAV document drawn up for the Economy Ministry. The note states that the equivalent of an entire regional office’s staff left the tax authority in the past year. The decline in personnel is said to due to the low salaries, as NAV employees receive Ft 70,000-160,000 less ...
Hungary's PM Orbán: Europe Should Be Preserved For Europeans
- 27 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
“The question now is not merely what kind of Europe we, Hungarians would like to live in, but whether that which we call Europe today will at all survive”, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said at the 26th Bálványos Summer School and Student Camp held in Tusnádfürdő (Baile Tusnad) of Transylvania (Romania).
Over 4,700 Illegal Entrants Detained By Hungarian Police
- 27 Jul 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s police detained 4,725 illegal immigrants between Friday and Sunday, a much larger number than at any weekend before, the police reported. According to the police website, nine people are suspected of human smuggling. Most illegal entrants, including 226 children, were apprehended along Hungary’s southern borders, the report said. The migrants have come from countries including ...
British Authorities Extradite Drug Dealer To Hungary
- 27 Jul 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
British authorities have recently extradited to Hungary a Briton suspected of running a drug business in Budapest earlier, national police reported. According to charges, the 45-year-old man produced drugs in a lab in northern Budapest between 2010 and 2012, the police said on its website. The suspect mailed the drugs to clients mostly in the United States and Australia.
Hungary Faces Tropical Heat
- 24 Jul 2015 9:04 AM
- current affairs
After a weeklong heatwave with daily highs reaching 37-38 degrees Hungary is to face tropical weather conditions in the next few days, the national weather service said. Intense summer heat pulling in from the south and southwest will continue to grip the country with humidity increasing day by day, the service said. Daily highs over the next three days will hover around 36-37 degrees Celsius and ...
Rakéta Fesztivál Around Budapest, Until 26 July
- 23 Jul 2015 11:50 AM
- entertainment
By We Love Budapest : Known as the Hungarian SXSW, the Rakéta Festival blasts into this week with high-flying young musicians filling the city’s coolest clubs during July 20-26. The Hungarian bedroom-pop and rock scene is only the top of the pops: we have doll-metal bands, chemical protective Nintendopunk, and a lot more. If you want to ...
Two Types Of Border Fence To Be Built On Serbian-Hungarian Border
- 23 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Government decided on the construction of two types of border fence at its Tuesday meeting; the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Defence will build an almost four-metre-tall fence on the sections of the border which can be easily penetrated, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office informed the press at a press conference held during the break of the cabinet meeting.
Majority Of Hungarians Support Temporary Border Closure
- 22 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The majority of Hungarians support the government’s decision to erect a fence along Hungary’s border with Serbia, according to a recent survey conducted by think-tank Századvég. Fully 61% of Századvég’s sample of 1,000 adults agreed with implementing a temporary border closure to stem the massive inflow of illegal migrants, while 27% disagreed with the government’s plans.
Date To Be Set For Budapest Conference On Migration
- 22 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Only the date needs to be finalised for a high-level European Union conference to be held on migration in Budapest this autumn, Interior Minister Sándor Pintér said. EU ministers have agreed in Brussels that the member states would receive on a voluntary basis 54,760 refugees and asylum-seekers from conflict zones as well as from Italy and Greece, the two EU member states in which most migrants ...
Low Pay Leaves Hungary’s Tax Office NAV Short Of Staff
- 27 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Tax and Customs Office (NAV) is suffering an extremely serious shortage of staff, the weekly Figyelõ reports, referring to a NAV document drawn up for the Economy Ministry. The note states that the equivalent of an entire regional office’s staff left the tax authority in the past year. The decline in personnel is said to due to the low salaries, as NAV employees receive Ft 70,000-160,000 less ...
Hungary's PM Orbán: Europe Should Be Preserved For Europeans
- 27 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
“The question now is not merely what kind of Europe we, Hungarians would like to live in, but whether that which we call Europe today will at all survive”, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said at the 26th Bálványos Summer School and Student Camp held in Tusnádfürdő (Baile Tusnad) of Transylvania (Romania).
Over 4,700 Illegal Entrants Detained By Hungarian Police
- 27 Jul 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s police detained 4,725 illegal immigrants between Friday and Sunday, a much larger number than at any weekend before, the police reported. According to the police website, nine people are suspected of human smuggling. Most illegal entrants, including 226 children, were apprehended along Hungary’s southern borders, the report said. The migrants have come from countries including ...
British Authorities Extradite Drug Dealer To Hungary
- 27 Jul 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
British authorities have recently extradited to Hungary a Briton suspected of running a drug business in Budapest earlier, national police reported. According to charges, the 45-year-old man produced drugs in a lab in northern Budapest between 2010 and 2012, the police said on its website. The suspect mailed the drugs to clients mostly in the United States and Australia.
Hungary Faces Tropical Heat
- 24 Jul 2015 9:04 AM
- current affairs
After a weeklong heatwave with daily highs reaching 37-38 degrees Hungary is to face tropical weather conditions in the next few days, the national weather service said. Intense summer heat pulling in from the south and southwest will continue to grip the country with humidity increasing day by day, the service said. Daily highs over the next three days will hover around 36-37 degrees Celsius and ...
Rakéta Fesztivál Around Budapest, Until 26 July
- 23 Jul 2015 11:50 AM
- entertainment
By We Love Budapest : Known as the Hungarian SXSW, the Rakéta Festival blasts into this week with high-flying young musicians filling the city’s coolest clubs during July 20-26. The Hungarian bedroom-pop and rock scene is only the top of the pops: we have doll-metal bands, chemical protective Nintendopunk, and a lot more. If you want to ...
Two Types Of Border Fence To Be Built On Serbian-Hungarian Border
- 23 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Government decided on the construction of two types of border fence at its Tuesday meeting; the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Defence will build an almost four-metre-tall fence on the sections of the border which can be easily penetrated, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office informed the press at a press conference held during the break of the cabinet meeting.
Majority Of Hungarians Support Temporary Border Closure
- 22 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The majority of Hungarians support the government’s decision to erect a fence along Hungary’s border with Serbia, according to a recent survey conducted by think-tank Századvég. Fully 61% of Századvég’s sample of 1,000 adults agreed with implementing a temporary border closure to stem the massive inflow of illegal migrants, while 27% disagreed with the government’s plans.
Date To Be Set For Budapest Conference On Migration
- 22 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Only the date needs to be finalised for a high-level European Union conference to be held on migration in Budapest this autumn, Interior Minister Sándor Pintér said. EU ministers have agreed in Brussels that the member states would receive on a voluntary basis 54,760 refugees and asylum-seekers from conflict zones as well as from Italy and Greece, the two EU member states in which most migrants ...