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Media Freedom Still Under Threat In Hungary Says Kroes
- 29 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Media freedom remains under threat in Hungary, said Neelie Kroes, Vice- President of the European Commission in charge of the digital agenda, in a blog entry about Hungary’s ad tax on Monday. “A free and plural media is the foundation of a free society, and a safeguard of democratic tradition.
German Occupation Memorial In Budapest Completed Under Cover Of Darkness
- 24 Jul 2014 11:40 AM
- current affairs
The controversial German occupation memorial was erected under cover of darkness early Sunday morning. Shortly after midnight some 100 police officers closed off the Szabadság square as workmen installed a timpanum with a bronze eagle, representing Nazi Germany. Below the eagle was erected a bronze statue of the Archangel Gabriel, representing “innocent Hungary”, holding an orb, representing the ...
Banned Midwife Agnes Geréb Faces Retrial In Hungary
- 15 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Geréb’s house arrest was terminated by the Capital Court of Appeals in February but she remains forbidden to leave Budapest. The last time Geréb appealed her sentence, a court lengthened her minimum period of incarceration to two-thirds of her two-year sentence and doubled her ban for practising as a midwife to ten years.
Hungary’s Jobbik Protests Government Plans To Elect University Chancellors
- 30 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The radical nationalist Jobbik party said it would turn to the Constitutional Court in protest against the government’s planned amendment of the higher education law. Jobbik spokeswoman Duró Dóra told a press conference that the party firmly rejects the proposed system of chancellors appointed by the government, under which ruling Fidesz wants to “put its own party secretaries at the helm of ...
FX Bill To Be Passed In Hungary In One Day
- 27 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- property
Parliament will debate the bill on foreign-currency mortgage borrowers on July 4 and pass it that same day, Fidesz caucus leader Antal Rogán told reporters on Thursday. In addition, courts are asked not to take a summer recess, he said, in order to close cases as soon as possible.
Hungary Wants Expansion To Remain Strategic EU Target
- 25 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The further expansion of the European Union should remain a strategic target, state secretary for EU affairs Enikő Győri said after a meeting of EU ministers in Luxembourg. Győri said Hungary was among those member countries that want further EU expansion to be considered a strategic issue. Commenting on a decision to give candidate status to Albania, she said this demonstrated that expansion was ...
Advertising Tax Angers Hungarian Media
- 25 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Its advocates call it a remedy to rectify the harm done by commercial television stations but its opponents see it as yet another move to narrow the freedom of the press.
Hungary's President János Áder Signs Local Elections Act
- 18 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Socialist Party is asking the fundamental rights ombudsman to send the new local council election law to the Constitutional Court for a review after President János Áder signed it yesterday.
Speak Easy Project, Trafó, Budapest, 13 June
- 11 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Leave / Stay is an independent documentary series produced by SpeakEasy Project on the migration trends, life experiences, dilemmas and world of the contemporary Hungarian youth, the generation of the “new mobility”. Shown with English subtitles.
Media Freedom Still Under Threat In Hungary Says Kroes
- 29 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Media freedom remains under threat in Hungary, said Neelie Kroes, Vice- President of the European Commission in charge of the digital agenda, in a blog entry about Hungary’s ad tax on Monday. “A free and plural media is the foundation of a free society, and a safeguard of democratic tradition.
German Occupation Memorial In Budapest Completed Under Cover Of Darkness
- 24 Jul 2014 11:40 AM
- current affairs
The controversial German occupation memorial was erected under cover of darkness early Sunday morning. Shortly after midnight some 100 police officers closed off the Szabadság square as workmen installed a timpanum with a bronze eagle, representing Nazi Germany. Below the eagle was erected a bronze statue of the Archangel Gabriel, representing “innocent Hungary”, holding an orb, representing the ...
Banned Midwife Agnes Geréb Faces Retrial In Hungary
- 15 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Geréb’s house arrest was terminated by the Capital Court of Appeals in February but she remains forbidden to leave Budapest. The last time Geréb appealed her sentence, a court lengthened her minimum period of incarceration to two-thirds of her two-year sentence and doubled her ban for practising as a midwife to ten years.
Hungary’s Jobbik Protests Government Plans To Elect University Chancellors
- 30 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The radical nationalist Jobbik party said it would turn to the Constitutional Court in protest against the government’s planned amendment of the higher education law. Jobbik spokeswoman Duró Dóra told a press conference that the party firmly rejects the proposed system of chancellors appointed by the government, under which ruling Fidesz wants to “put its own party secretaries at the helm of ...
FX Bill To Be Passed In Hungary In One Day
- 27 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- property
Parliament will debate the bill on foreign-currency mortgage borrowers on July 4 and pass it that same day, Fidesz caucus leader Antal Rogán told reporters on Thursday. In addition, courts are asked not to take a summer recess, he said, in order to close cases as soon as possible.
Hungary Wants Expansion To Remain Strategic EU Target
- 25 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The further expansion of the European Union should remain a strategic target, state secretary for EU affairs Enikő Győri said after a meeting of EU ministers in Luxembourg. Győri said Hungary was among those member countries that want further EU expansion to be considered a strategic issue. Commenting on a decision to give candidate status to Albania, she said this demonstrated that expansion was ...
Advertising Tax Angers Hungarian Media
- 25 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Its advocates call it a remedy to rectify the harm done by commercial television stations but its opponents see it as yet another move to narrow the freedom of the press.
Hungary's President János Áder Signs Local Elections Act
- 18 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Socialist Party is asking the fundamental rights ombudsman to send the new local council election law to the Constitutional Court for a review after President János Áder signed it yesterday.
Speak Easy Project, Trafó, Budapest, 13 June
- 11 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Leave / Stay is an independent documentary series produced by SpeakEasy Project on the migration trends, life experiences, dilemmas and world of the contemporary Hungarian youth, the generation of the “new mobility”. Shown with English subtitles.