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Transit Zone For Migrants Opens At Budapest Déli Railway Station
- 12 Aug 2015 3:00 AM
- current affairs
The metropolitan council has opened a transit zone for migrants at Budapest’s Déli railway station, the council’s law enforcement department said. The transit zone available to migrants has been set up in a less frequented part of the pedestrian underpass, located next to Vérmező Park.
Always Drinking Marching Band (E) @ Sziget Budapest, 16 August 6.15 pm
- 11 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- entertainment
The Always Drinking Marching Band is a company made up by musicians, actors, technicians, dancers, pub poets (and many others, of course), that has been performing in the streets since 1997, throughout Spain but also elsewhere in Europe, Asia, Africa and America.Our name refers to the Mediterranean “ mode de vie”, which includes socializing with buddies on streets and squares, having some beers ...
First Transit Area For Migrants Opens In Budapest
- 10 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The first designated area in Budapest available to migrants opened in an underpass near Keleti railway station on Saturday, the municipal council’s chief law enforcement officer said. György Pető said the council ensures basic hygiene and medical services in the designated area. It is not possible to make migrants disappear from the city’s pavements and public spaces overnight but opening such ...
Uber To Remain On Road In Budapest
- 7 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- getting around
Taxi-hailing service Uber will continue to operate in Budapest, even after a new decree requiring its drivers to be licenced comes into force on Thursday, managing director Zoltán Fekete said in a statement. Fekete complained that the 30-day period the decree allows drivers to become licenced was too short.
Budapest Creates Areas For Migrants In Transit
- 6 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The city of Budapest will set up designated transit areas in the capital where migrants passing through the city can take advantage of basic hygiene and medical services, the municipal council’s chief law enforcement officer announced. After talks with Budapest Mayor István Tarlós it was agreed that areas would be cordoned off near Keleti, Nyugati and Déli train stations where basic services can ...
Mayor Of Budapest Promises Action Plan On Handling Migrants
- 31 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Budapest city council is preparing an action plan for handling the thousands of migrants who are arriving in the city every day, daily Magyar Nemzet said. Budapest Mayor István Tarlós told the paper that the most serious issue is the sanitary situation that has developed in streets, underpasses and parks, putting increased pressure on Budapest’s public areas maintenance company, police and ...
Budapest Developments Expected To Boost Passenger Numbers On M4
- 31 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- getting around
The government hopes to boost passenger numbers in Budapest’s metro 4 line with the help of transport developments carried out in conjunction with the metropolitan city council, the deputy state secretary for transport said. The city’s 4th metro line started operating in the spring of 2014 with a daily passenger number of around 100,000, which had increased to 160,000 by the end of last year. ...
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 ...
Budapest’s Ugliest Building To Finally Go Under The Hammer
- 17 Jul 2015 12:30 PM
- property
A half-complete building looking over the River Danube in Budapest’s District II, which has been dubbed one of the capital’s greatest eyesores, is to finally go under the hammer after fifteen years. The building, originally constructed as a hotel for members of the Communist-era National Council of Trade Unions (SZOT) in 1971, was demolished in the early 1990s.
Transit Zone For Migrants Opens At Budapest Déli Railway Station
- 12 Aug 2015 3:00 AM
- current affairs
The metropolitan council has opened a transit zone for migrants at Budapest’s Déli railway station, the council’s law enforcement department said. The transit zone available to migrants has been set up in a less frequented part of the pedestrian underpass, located next to Vérmező Park.
Always Drinking Marching Band (E) @ Sziget Budapest, 16 August 6.15 pm
- 11 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- entertainment
The Always Drinking Marching Band is a company made up by musicians, actors, technicians, dancers, pub poets (and many others, of course), that has been performing in the streets since 1997, throughout Spain but also elsewhere in Europe, Asia, Africa and America.Our name refers to the Mediterranean “ mode de vie”, which includes socializing with buddies on streets and squares, having some beers ...
First Transit Area For Migrants Opens In Budapest
- 10 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The first designated area in Budapest available to migrants opened in an underpass near Keleti railway station on Saturday, the municipal council’s chief law enforcement officer said. György Pető said the council ensures basic hygiene and medical services in the designated area. It is not possible to make migrants disappear from the city’s pavements and public spaces overnight but opening such ...
Uber To Remain On Road In Budapest
- 7 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- getting around
Taxi-hailing service Uber will continue to operate in Budapest, even after a new decree requiring its drivers to be licenced comes into force on Thursday, managing director Zoltán Fekete said in a statement. Fekete complained that the 30-day period the decree allows drivers to become licenced was too short.
Budapest Creates Areas For Migrants In Transit
- 6 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The city of Budapest will set up designated transit areas in the capital where migrants passing through the city can take advantage of basic hygiene and medical services, the municipal council’s chief law enforcement officer announced. After talks with Budapest Mayor István Tarlós it was agreed that areas would be cordoned off near Keleti, Nyugati and Déli train stations where basic services can ...
Mayor Of Budapest Promises Action Plan On Handling Migrants
- 31 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Budapest city council is preparing an action plan for handling the thousands of migrants who are arriving in the city every day, daily Magyar Nemzet said. Budapest Mayor István Tarlós told the paper that the most serious issue is the sanitary situation that has developed in streets, underpasses and parks, putting increased pressure on Budapest’s public areas maintenance company, police and ...
Budapest Developments Expected To Boost Passenger Numbers On M4
- 31 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- getting around
The government hopes to boost passenger numbers in Budapest’s metro 4 line with the help of transport developments carried out in conjunction with the metropolitan city council, the deputy state secretary for transport said. The city’s 4th metro line started operating in the spring of 2014 with a daily passenger number of around 100,000, which had increased to 160,000 by the end of last year. ...
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 ...
Budapest’s Ugliest Building To Finally Go Under The Hammer
- 17 Jul 2015 12:30 PM
- property
A half-complete building looking over the River Danube in Budapest’s District II, which has been dubbed one of the capital’s greatest eyesores, is to finally go under the hammer after fifteen years. The building, originally constructed as a hotel for members of the Communist-era National Council of Trade Unions (SZOT) in 1971, was demolished in the early 1990s.