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Low Pay Leaves Hungary’s Tax Office NAV Short Of Staff
- 27 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Tax and Customs Office (NAV) is suffering an extremely serious shortage of staff, the weekly Figyelõ reports, referring to a NAV document drawn up for the Economy Ministry. The note states that the equivalent of an entire regional office’s staff left the tax authority in the past year. The decline in personnel is said to due to the low salaries, as NAV employees receive Ft 70,000-160,000 less ...
Hungary’s PM: Every Value Can And Must Be Open To Debate
- 26 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
At a press conference in Strasbourg following a European Parliament (EP) debate on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that every value can and must be open to debate. The EP debate centred on two issues: the Hungarian government’s standpoints on migration and the death penalty. A number of speakers accused the Hungarian prime minister of opposing basic European values.
Anti Corruption Protests Held Across Hungary
- 20 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Anti-corruption protests took place across Hungary today. In Budapest the demonstration started in front of the Eiffel Palace Office Building near the Nyugati (western) train station. A few minutes before the scheduled start of the protest it seemed as though police and members of the press would outnumber the protesters.
Meet Lajos Simicska: Fidesz’s Enigmatic Oligarch
- 12 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
“From the time of its founding Fidesz did not have outside supporters. We wanted to avoid being beholden to domestic and foreign groups, and for this reason had to develop our own sources of income.” – Lajos Simicska, Fidesz economic director, October 1994 “Hungary needs large Hungarian companies in the financial sector, the insurance […]
More Manufacturing Jobs In Hungary In Aug -Oct
- 28 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Sándor Czomba, economic state secretary for labour, told a news conference that manufacturing jobs had risen by 64,000 in August-October compared with the same period last year, while in the construction industry there were 21,000 more employees.
Hungary's PM Viktor Orban: “The Era of Liberal Democracies Is Over”
- 31 Jul 2014 11:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary PM Viktor Orbán addressed Fidesz supporters in the Romanian spa town of Baile Tusnad on Saturday.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Govt Aims To Ensure Every Able-Bodied Hungarian Can Get Work
- 20 May 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s government aims to ensure that every able-bodied Hungarian is either employed or in a fostered work programme by the start of 2015, János Lázár, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, said on Monday.
Xpat Opinion: Ostriches And The Hungarian Public Work Program
- 20 Mar 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Since taking office in 2010, the Orbán Government has aimed to get Hungary’s unemployed back to work. A central part of the Government’s program of “Renewal” has been about reducing the huge welfare roles, reaching those who have been out of work for so long that they’ve given up looking. And part of the solution is the Hungarian public work program.
Low Pay Leaves Hungary’s Tax Office NAV Short Of Staff
- 27 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Tax and Customs Office (NAV) is suffering an extremely serious shortage of staff, the weekly Figyelõ reports, referring to a NAV document drawn up for the Economy Ministry. The note states that the equivalent of an entire regional office’s staff left the tax authority in the past year. The decline in personnel is said to due to the low salaries, as NAV employees receive Ft 70,000-160,000 less ...
Hungary’s PM: Every Value Can And Must Be Open To Debate
- 26 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
At a press conference in Strasbourg following a European Parliament (EP) debate on Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that every value can and must be open to debate. The EP debate centred on two issues: the Hungarian government’s standpoints on migration and the death penalty. A number of speakers accused the Hungarian prime minister of opposing basic European values.
Anti Corruption Protests Held Across Hungary
- 20 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Anti-corruption protests took place across Hungary today. In Budapest the demonstration started in front of the Eiffel Palace Office Building near the Nyugati (western) train station. A few minutes before the scheduled start of the protest it seemed as though police and members of the press would outnumber the protesters.
Meet Lajos Simicska: Fidesz’s Enigmatic Oligarch
- 12 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
“From the time of its founding Fidesz did not have outside supporters. We wanted to avoid being beholden to domestic and foreign groups, and for this reason had to develop our own sources of income.” – Lajos Simicska, Fidesz economic director, October 1994 “Hungary needs large Hungarian companies in the financial sector, the insurance […]
More Manufacturing Jobs In Hungary In Aug -Oct
- 28 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Sándor Czomba, economic state secretary for labour, told a news conference that manufacturing jobs had risen by 64,000 in August-October compared with the same period last year, while in the construction industry there were 21,000 more employees.
Hungary's PM Viktor Orban: “The Era of Liberal Democracies Is Over”
- 31 Jul 2014 11:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary PM Viktor Orbán addressed Fidesz supporters in the Romanian spa town of Baile Tusnad on Saturday.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Govt Aims To Ensure Every Able-Bodied Hungarian Can Get Work
- 20 May 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s government aims to ensure that every able-bodied Hungarian is either employed or in a fostered work programme by the start of 2015, János Lázár, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, said on Monday.
Xpat Opinion: Ostriches And The Hungarian Public Work Program
- 20 Mar 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Since taking office in 2010, the Orbán Government has aimed to get Hungary’s unemployed back to work. A central part of the Government’s program of “Renewal” has been about reducing the huge welfare roles, reaching those who have been out of work for so long that they’ve given up looking. And part of the solution is the Hungarian public work program.