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Lázár: Transferring EU Affairs To Hungarian PM’s Office Right Move
- 26 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Transferring European affairs from the foreign ministry to the prime minister’s office has proven to be the right move, the government office chief told parliament’s European Affairs Committee. Experience from the government’s previous 2010-2014 term has shown that matters pertaining to the European Commission do not typically cover foreign trade or foreign affairs, since these matters concern ...
Internet In Hungary: (Dis)Connecting Families?
- 26 Nov 2015 6:30 AM
- tech
Telecommunications in general play a key role in the lives of 85% of adult Hungarian Internet users. Specifically, the Internet is of major significance, as it has also become indispensable for purposes other than keeping in touch with others. To 83% of Internet users, being online can now be a family program that may include social media usage, online shopping, listening to music, or watching ...
Sziget 2016 Special Tickets Available Today, Interview With 'Island of Freedom' Founder
- 24 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- entertainment
Tickets for Sziget 2016 are now on sale, with special offers available for the first 24 hours. We've got the details from the super-man who founded one of Europe’s most popular cultural events. Also below you can now watch the best bits from Sziget this year - which XpatLoop.com asked founder Károly Gerendai about, amongst other related topics including his future. As you may know, he's one of ...
Inside Look. Film Laboratory, Budapest, 3 - 6 December 2015
- 24 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- entertainment
Europe’s Roma communities face deepening challenges of discrimination, violence and poverty. The US minority rights movement, which has had some notable successes over the past 50 years, also faces continuing problems, including police violence. We believe that a sharing of their struggles would be worthwhile as everyone searches for effective remedies.
XpatLoop Interview: Laurent Langlais, Lifestyle Consultant
- 23 Nov 2015 11:00 AM
Laurent is French born and raised, and his accent is still here to prove it. Fascinated by cities and the metaphysics from an early age, he always wanted to explore urban reality 2.0. After having worked as a computer artist creating virtual worlds, he left this creative but hectic profession to travel the world and ended up spending much time in Asia. This is where he found his true calling as a ...
Two-Thirds Of Hungarians Ready To Pay Hospital Fees
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
Two-thirds of respondents in a recent survey said they would be willing to pay fees for visits to doctors and hospitals if that would improve the standard of health care. Such fees introduced by the Gyurcsány government were rejected in a referendum in 2008. In the new poll by the Publicus Institute, commissioned by the weekly Vasárnapi Hírek, two-thirds of the respondents were unhappy with the ...
Hungary’s Top Soldier Sees Indirect Connection Between Migration And Terrorism
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Following the Paris terror attack, the Hungarian Defense Force introduced serious measures to protect its bases and foreign missions as well. Meanwhile, military policemen have started patrolling Budapest’s main transportation hubs.
Hungary’s PM: Communism “Was An Insane Ideology”
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
No one today disputes that Communism, like National Socialism, was an insane ideology, Viktor Orbán, the prime minister, said at a commemoration. At the event held to remember Hungarian political prisoners and forced labourers deported to the Soviet Union, Orbán said that when the insane idea of National Socialism shook the world, and when a crippled western world recognised that its very ...
Hungary’s PM: Controls Of Migrants From War Zones Must Be Stepped Up
- 20 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The terrorist attacks against France highlight the need to take the arrival of migrants from war zones seriously, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said. European Union member states are, to varying degrees, at war with countries from where such migrants originate from, Orbán told public media after meeting NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. It is conceivable that groups are being sent to Europe ...
Lázár: Transferring EU Affairs To Hungarian PM’s Office Right Move
- 26 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Transferring European affairs from the foreign ministry to the prime minister’s office has proven to be the right move, the government office chief told parliament’s European Affairs Committee. Experience from the government’s previous 2010-2014 term has shown that matters pertaining to the European Commission do not typically cover foreign trade or foreign affairs, since these matters concern ...
Internet In Hungary: (Dis)Connecting Families?
- 26 Nov 2015 6:30 AM
- tech
Telecommunications in general play a key role in the lives of 85% of adult Hungarian Internet users. Specifically, the Internet is of major significance, as it has also become indispensable for purposes other than keeping in touch with others. To 83% of Internet users, being online can now be a family program that may include social media usage, online shopping, listening to music, or watching ...
Sziget 2016 Special Tickets Available Today, Interview With 'Island of Freedom' Founder
- 24 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- entertainment
Tickets for Sziget 2016 are now on sale, with special offers available for the first 24 hours. We've got the details from the super-man who founded one of Europe’s most popular cultural events. Also below you can now watch the best bits from Sziget this year - which XpatLoop.com asked founder Károly Gerendai about, amongst other related topics including his future. As you may know, he's one of ...
Inside Look. Film Laboratory, Budapest, 3 - 6 December 2015
- 24 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- entertainment
Europe’s Roma communities face deepening challenges of discrimination, violence and poverty. The US minority rights movement, which has had some notable successes over the past 50 years, also faces continuing problems, including police violence. We believe that a sharing of their struggles would be worthwhile as everyone searches for effective remedies.
XpatLoop Interview: Laurent Langlais, Lifestyle Consultant
- 23 Nov 2015 11:00 AM
Laurent is French born and raised, and his accent is still here to prove it. Fascinated by cities and the metaphysics from an early age, he always wanted to explore urban reality 2.0. After having worked as a computer artist creating virtual worlds, he left this creative but hectic profession to travel the world and ended up spending much time in Asia. This is where he found his true calling as a ...
Two-Thirds Of Hungarians Ready To Pay Hospital Fees
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
Two-thirds of respondents in a recent survey said they would be willing to pay fees for visits to doctors and hospitals if that would improve the standard of health care. Such fees introduced by the Gyurcsány government were rejected in a referendum in 2008. In the new poll by the Publicus Institute, commissioned by the weekly Vasárnapi Hírek, two-thirds of the respondents were unhappy with the ...
Hungary’s Top Soldier Sees Indirect Connection Between Migration And Terrorism
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Following the Paris terror attack, the Hungarian Defense Force introduced serious measures to protect its bases and foreign missions as well. Meanwhile, military policemen have started patrolling Budapest’s main transportation hubs.
Hungary’s PM: Communism “Was An Insane Ideology”
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
No one today disputes that Communism, like National Socialism, was an insane ideology, Viktor Orbán, the prime minister, said at a commemoration. At the event held to remember Hungarian political prisoners and forced labourers deported to the Soviet Union, Orbán said that when the insane idea of National Socialism shook the world, and when a crippled western world recognised that its very ...
Hungary’s PM: Controls Of Migrants From War Zones Must Be Stepped Up
- 20 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The terrorist attacks against France highlight the need to take the arrival of migrants from war zones seriously, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said. European Union member states are, to varying degrees, at war with countries from where such migrants originate from, Orbán told public media after meeting NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. It is conceivable that groups are being sent to Europe ...