933 result(s) for former prime minister
Csepreghy: EC Insists Selection Of Altus For Contract “Clean ”
- 22 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The European Commission is trying to "explain away" the 1.5 billion forint (EUR 5m) contract awarded to former PM Ferenc Gyurcsány’s company Altus, insisting the selection process was “clean”, government official Nándor Csepreghy said. In its response to a letter addressed to EC Director-General Walter Deffaa, the Commission “tried to prove that the criteria used in selecting Altus was ...
Relations Between US & Hungary Have Improved
- 21 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The United States and Hungary are allies that should openly clarify any disputes between each other, the participants in a hearing in the US Congress on the future of US-Hungary relations said in agreement on Tuesday evening, local time.
Congress Hearing On US-Hungary Ties
- 21 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The United States and Hungary are allies that should openly clarify any disputes between each other, the participants in a hearing in the US Congress on the future of USHungary relations said in agreement on Tuesday evening, local time. Several contributors to the hearing held at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Europe, said bilateral relations had improved in the past six ...
Hungarians “Should Decide On Immigration Issue”
- 20 May 2015 2:00 AM
- current affairs
Experience shows that regulating immigration from Brussels has proven a failure, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told reporters in Strasbourg. Decisions on whether a country wants to receive refugees should be made at national level, he said. Hungary wants its citizens to be allowed to decide whether or not there should be immigrants on Hungarian territory, the prime minister said before addressing ...
José Manuel Barroso Condemns Hungarian PM's Politics
- 19 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Last weekend independent Hungarian television broadcasted an exclusive interview with former president of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso. Although the interview was conducted in English, it was overdubbed in Hungarian. Unfortunately, the original, undubbed version has yet to be published. The following is based on the Hungarian version.
Hungarian Govt Decisions “Transparent”
- 18 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The government is committed to transparent decision-making, the prime minister told journalists. Viktor Orbán was responding to a journalist’s question regarding remarks made by former ambassador to the United States in Hungary, Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, who is reported as having written in a recently published book that the prime minister would regularly sit down with the national ...
Xpat Opinion: Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis On Her Years In Hungary, Part I
- 13 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
I just received Eleni Kounalakis’s Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest (New York: The New Press), recounting her years in Budapest as U.S. Ambassador. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the book, which luckily, despite its subtitle, has little to do with dinner parties. Instead, we have an account of the turbulent first three years of ...
Government To Wind Up Toxic Waste Dump Site In Budapest’s 9th District
- 8 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Pest county prefect Richárd Tornai told InfoRadio on Monday that the government would remove some 17o tons of toxic waste illegally stored in unsafe conditions in Budapest’s 9th District by the end of May. The remaining 2500 tons of waste are to be removed in the weeks and months to follow. On April 9th Hungarian news site 444.hu broke the story that hundreds of barrels of toxic waste were being ...
Kounalakis Writes About Hungary Years
- 4 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Former US ambassador Eleni Kounalakis recalls her doubts about Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government in a newly published book on her years in Budapest.
Csepreghy: EC Insists Selection Of Altus For Contract “Clean ”
- 22 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The European Commission is trying to "explain away" the 1.5 billion forint (EUR 5m) contract awarded to former PM Ferenc Gyurcsány’s company Altus, insisting the selection process was “clean”, government official Nándor Csepreghy said. In its response to a letter addressed to EC Director-General Walter Deffaa, the Commission “tried to prove that the criteria used in selecting Altus was ...
Relations Between US & Hungary Have Improved
- 21 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The United States and Hungary are allies that should openly clarify any disputes between each other, the participants in a hearing in the US Congress on the future of US-Hungary relations said in agreement on Tuesday evening, local time.
Congress Hearing On US-Hungary Ties
- 21 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The United States and Hungary are allies that should openly clarify any disputes between each other, the participants in a hearing in the US Congress on the future of USHungary relations said in agreement on Tuesday evening, local time. Several contributors to the hearing held at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Europe, said bilateral relations had improved in the past six ...
Hungarians “Should Decide On Immigration Issue”
- 20 May 2015 2:00 AM
- current affairs
Experience shows that regulating immigration from Brussels has proven a failure, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told reporters in Strasbourg. Decisions on whether a country wants to receive refugees should be made at national level, he said. Hungary wants its citizens to be allowed to decide whether or not there should be immigrants on Hungarian territory, the prime minister said before addressing ...
José Manuel Barroso Condemns Hungarian PM's Politics
- 19 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Last weekend independent Hungarian television broadcasted an exclusive interview with former president of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso. Although the interview was conducted in English, it was overdubbed in Hungarian. Unfortunately, the original, undubbed version has yet to be published. The following is based on the Hungarian version.
Hungarian Govt Decisions “Transparent”
- 18 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The government is committed to transparent decision-making, the prime minister told journalists. Viktor Orbán was responding to a journalist’s question regarding remarks made by former ambassador to the United States in Hungary, Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, who is reported as having written in a recently published book that the prime minister would regularly sit down with the national ...
Xpat Opinion: Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis On Her Years In Hungary, Part I
- 13 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
I just received Eleni Kounalakis’s Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest (New York: The New Press), recounting her years in Budapest as U.S. Ambassador. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the book, which luckily, despite its subtitle, has little to do with dinner parties. Instead, we have an account of the turbulent first three years of ...
Government To Wind Up Toxic Waste Dump Site In Budapest’s 9th District
- 8 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Pest county prefect Richárd Tornai told InfoRadio on Monday that the government would remove some 17o tons of toxic waste illegally stored in unsafe conditions in Budapest’s 9th District by the end of May. The remaining 2500 tons of waste are to be removed in the weeks and months to follow. On April 9th Hungarian news site 444.hu broke the story that hundreds of barrels of toxic waste were being ...
Kounalakis Writes About Hungary Years
- 4 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Former US ambassador Eleni Kounalakis recalls her doubts about Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government in a newly published book on her years in Budapest.