933 result(s) for former prime minister
PM Orbán Attends Roundtable On EU
- 16 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended a roundtable on the sidelines of celebrations of the 15th anniversary of Budapest’s German-language Andrássy University on Thursday. The roundtable was also attended by former Bavarian Minister-President Edmund Stoiber, German ambassador to Hungary Heinz-Peter Behr, Austrian ambassador Ralph Scheide, and Erwin Teufel, former minister-president of ...
Count Gyula Andrássy’s Statue Inaugurated In Kossuth Square
- 14 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
House Speaker László Kövér inaugurated a mounted statue of Count Gyula Andrássy, Hungary’s prime minister between 1867 and 1871, in front of Parliament in Kossuth Square. The reconstructed Andrássy statue will return to its original place in its former glory, he said, noting that its inauguration completes the process of restoring the pre-1944 look of the Square.
Orbán: Traditional Identities Must Be Maintained
- 8 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
On the topic of Britain’s exit from the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said: “Britons said that what is happening in the EU is no good, and this is why they are leaving. We must think about what is no good in the EU.” European decision-makers and their followers, as well as leading media personalities, believed themselves when they insisted that the correct and desirable direction of ...
Former Belgian PM Calls On Hungarians To Support Quotas In Referendum
- 2 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is calling on Hungarians to go to the polls during the Oct. 2 referendum and support the European Union’s planned migrant quotas, nol. hu reported, citing a letter Verhofstadt sent to the opposition Hungarian Liberal Party (MLP). Verhofstadt, who was prime minister between 1999 and 2008, said that the Liberals are setting out on a “very important ...
Xpat Opinion: Budaházy Sentenced To 13 Years
- 2 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Commentators ponder the severe sentences handed down to the defendants in the first political terror case in the history of Hungarian democracy.
Court Sentences Extremist Budaházy To 13 Years In Prison
- 31 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A Budapest court sentenced in a non-binding ruling extremist György Budaházy to 13 years in prison for carrying out terrorist activity almost a decade ago. Budaházy and six of his accomplices, who were sentenced to around ten years in prison each, were placed under house arrest during the afternoon. Another three people, who were sentenced to around seven years each, are prohibited from leaving ...
Prosecutor Calls For Fidesz MP’s Immunity To Be Lifted
- 19 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s chief prosecutor has asked parliament to lift the immunity of ruling party lawmaker Roland Mengyi on suspicion of corruption involving public funds, a prosecution spokesman said on Thursday.
Xpat Opinion: Strange Times (In Hungary)? We’ve Been Here Before
- 10 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
By Tom Popper, Managing Editor, Budapest Business Journal: The news may sound surprising, but it really isn’t. We have been here before. In what has become an annual tradition, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán went to his party’s summer retreat in Baile Tusnad, Romania, and gave a speech designed to shock. This time Orbán endorsed the American presidential campaign of Donald Trump, the ...
Xpat Opinion: A Woman Prime Minister For Hungary?
- 9 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A surprising number of listeners, mostly men, to György Bolgár’s call-in program on Klubrádió keep suggesting that what Hungary needs today is a woman as prime minister. My first thought was that the reason for this unexpected enthusiasm for a woman to lead the country is the undeniable failure of the Hungarian political elite in the last 25 years.
PM Orbán Attends Roundtable On EU
- 16 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended a roundtable on the sidelines of celebrations of the 15th anniversary of Budapest’s German-language Andrássy University on Thursday. The roundtable was also attended by former Bavarian Minister-President Edmund Stoiber, German ambassador to Hungary Heinz-Peter Behr, Austrian ambassador Ralph Scheide, and Erwin Teufel, former minister-president of ...
Count Gyula Andrássy’s Statue Inaugurated In Kossuth Square
- 14 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
House Speaker László Kövér inaugurated a mounted statue of Count Gyula Andrássy, Hungary’s prime minister between 1867 and 1871, in front of Parliament in Kossuth Square. The reconstructed Andrássy statue will return to its original place in its former glory, he said, noting that its inauguration completes the process of restoring the pre-1944 look of the Square.
Orbán: Traditional Identities Must Be Maintained
- 8 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
On the topic of Britain’s exit from the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said: “Britons said that what is happening in the EU is no good, and this is why they are leaving. We must think about what is no good in the EU.” European decision-makers and their followers, as well as leading media personalities, believed themselves when they insisted that the correct and desirable direction of ...
Former Belgian PM Calls On Hungarians To Support Quotas In Referendum
- 2 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is calling on Hungarians to go to the polls during the Oct. 2 referendum and support the European Union’s planned migrant quotas, nol. hu reported, citing a letter Verhofstadt sent to the opposition Hungarian Liberal Party (MLP). Verhofstadt, who was prime minister between 1999 and 2008, said that the Liberals are setting out on a “very important ...
Xpat Opinion: Budaházy Sentenced To 13 Years
- 2 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Commentators ponder the severe sentences handed down to the defendants in the first political terror case in the history of Hungarian democracy.
Court Sentences Extremist Budaházy To 13 Years In Prison
- 31 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A Budapest court sentenced in a non-binding ruling extremist György Budaházy to 13 years in prison for carrying out terrorist activity almost a decade ago. Budaházy and six of his accomplices, who were sentenced to around ten years in prison each, were placed under house arrest during the afternoon. Another three people, who were sentenced to around seven years each, are prohibited from leaving ...
Prosecutor Calls For Fidesz MP’s Immunity To Be Lifted
- 19 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s chief prosecutor has asked parliament to lift the immunity of ruling party lawmaker Roland Mengyi on suspicion of corruption involving public funds, a prosecution spokesman said on Thursday.
Xpat Opinion: Strange Times (In Hungary)? We’ve Been Here Before
- 10 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
By Tom Popper, Managing Editor, Budapest Business Journal: The news may sound surprising, but it really isn’t. We have been here before. In what has become an annual tradition, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán went to his party’s summer retreat in Baile Tusnad, Romania, and gave a speech designed to shock. This time Orbán endorsed the American presidential campaign of Donald Trump, the ...
Xpat Opinion: A Woman Prime Minister For Hungary?
- 9 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A surprising number of listeners, mostly men, to György Bolgár’s call-in program on Klubrádió keep suggesting that what Hungary needs today is a woman as prime minister. My first thought was that the reason for this unexpected enthusiasm for a woman to lead the country is the undeniable failure of the Hungarian political elite in the last 25 years.