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International Train Service Suspended From Budapest Keleti Railway Station
- 4 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
State railway company MÁV indefinitely cancelled all international train traffic after 8 a.m. Thursday, citing “safety reasons”. Passengers wishing to travel abroad will have to disembark within Hungary and transfer to trains run by foreign companies. MÁV officials told reporters that they could no longer guarantee the safety of Hungarian passengers.
Xpat Opinion: Migrants Seeking Home Show Hope At Keleti
- 2 Sep 2015 4:00 AM
- community & culture
By Liz Frommer: Over 2,000 immigrants packed Budapest's Keleti railway station this past Sunday night, a stark reminder of Europe's current immigration debacle. Mostly hidden under the main square, the juxtaposition of the hundreds of families stranded in tents, hungry and worn, with the luminous facade of Keleti's 19th century station was eerie. Strewn about this vast passageway leading ...
Golgotha Painting Covered In Hungary
- 1 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Golgotha, the 19th-century painting by Mihály Munkácsy has been covered over at the Déri Museum in Debrecen, as its owner Imre Pákh has banned its further public display. Pákh brought the picture to Hungary for display along with the other parts of Munkácsy’s Christ trilogy, but the government declared the painting a protected artwork that cannot be exported after he rejected its purchase offer ...
Refugees Flow Through Hungarian Border Towards Szeged
- 26 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Serbian authorities transported 150 bus loads of illegal immigrants from Belgrade to the Hungarian border in two days as the first of the refugees who were stopped at the Greek-Macedonian border for days last week, arrived at the Serbia-Hungary border. The refugees gather at a collection point in Serbia then follow railway tracks to arrive in Hungary near Röszke.
Barbed Wire On Hungarian Border Fails To Stop Migrants
- 25 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Migrants arriving from Serbia are apparently having little difficulty in cutting through the barbed wire barrier along the border with Serbia, according to reports. As the coils of wire are only 1.5 metres high, migrants can pass clothes, sleeping bags and even children over them. Migrants are arriving in large numbers near Röszke, where there is no wire fence, along railway tracks that lead from ...
Hungarian Fidesz MP Calls Migrants A Health Risk
- 24 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Migrants arriving in Hungary constitute a health risk and should be made to undergo screening tests and protective inoculations, Fidesz MP Imre Pesti declared on Sunday. Pesti, a physician, argued that most of the migrants come from war zones where even basic health conditions are not in place and that the long road they travel to Hungary can further harm their health.
US To Station Military Vehicles In Hungary
- 24 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The US plans to station 50 military vehicles, including four tanks, in Hungary on a permanent basis in response to the Ukrainian crisis, Magyar Nemzet reported on Wednesday. The daily said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is treating the matter cautiously, as he does not want to jeopardise Hungarian-Russian relations. At the same time, unidentified sources say there is a good chance that the move ...
Hungarian Border Fence Fails To Stem Influx Of Migrants
- 17 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Defence Minister Csaba Hende and Interior Minister Sándor Pintér inspected construction of the fence near Tompa on the Serbian border on Friday. They affirmed that the barrier will be completed by August 31. Hungarian police caught more than 3,400 illegal migrants on Friday and Saturday, an indication that construction of the fence to date has not slowed the influx of refugees.
Hungarian LIGA Union Head Spent EU Funds On Luxury Hotels
- 17 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
President István Gaskó of the LIGA union alliance has stayed in the Kempinski and Hilton hotels in Budapest at EU expense, even though he is a resident of the city, Napi Gazdaság reports. On September 27, 2012 he hired room 601 at the Kempinski Hotel Corvinus and spent Ft 140,000 for the night. On February 2, 2014 he spent more than Ft 150,000 for a room at the Budapest Hilton.
International Train Service Suspended From Budapest Keleti Railway Station
- 4 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- travel
State railway company MÁV indefinitely cancelled all international train traffic after 8 a.m. Thursday, citing “safety reasons”. Passengers wishing to travel abroad will have to disembark within Hungary and transfer to trains run by foreign companies. MÁV officials told reporters that they could no longer guarantee the safety of Hungarian passengers.
Xpat Opinion: Migrants Seeking Home Show Hope At Keleti
- 2 Sep 2015 4:00 AM
- community & culture
By Liz Frommer: Over 2,000 immigrants packed Budapest's Keleti railway station this past Sunday night, a stark reminder of Europe's current immigration debacle. Mostly hidden under the main square, the juxtaposition of the hundreds of families stranded in tents, hungry and worn, with the luminous facade of Keleti's 19th century station was eerie. Strewn about this vast passageway leading ...
Golgotha Painting Covered In Hungary
- 1 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Golgotha, the 19th-century painting by Mihály Munkácsy has been covered over at the Déri Museum in Debrecen, as its owner Imre Pákh has banned its further public display. Pákh brought the picture to Hungary for display along with the other parts of Munkácsy’s Christ trilogy, but the government declared the painting a protected artwork that cannot be exported after he rejected its purchase offer ...
Refugees Flow Through Hungarian Border Towards Szeged
- 26 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Serbian authorities transported 150 bus loads of illegal immigrants from Belgrade to the Hungarian border in two days as the first of the refugees who were stopped at the Greek-Macedonian border for days last week, arrived at the Serbia-Hungary border. The refugees gather at a collection point in Serbia then follow railway tracks to arrive in Hungary near Röszke.
Barbed Wire On Hungarian Border Fails To Stop Migrants
- 25 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Migrants arriving from Serbia are apparently having little difficulty in cutting through the barbed wire barrier along the border with Serbia, according to reports. As the coils of wire are only 1.5 metres high, migrants can pass clothes, sleeping bags and even children over them. Migrants are arriving in large numbers near Röszke, where there is no wire fence, along railway tracks that lead from ...
Hungarian Fidesz MP Calls Migrants A Health Risk
- 24 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Migrants arriving in Hungary constitute a health risk and should be made to undergo screening tests and protective inoculations, Fidesz MP Imre Pesti declared on Sunday. Pesti, a physician, argued that most of the migrants come from war zones where even basic health conditions are not in place and that the long road they travel to Hungary can further harm their health.
US To Station Military Vehicles In Hungary
- 24 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The US plans to station 50 military vehicles, including four tanks, in Hungary on a permanent basis in response to the Ukrainian crisis, Magyar Nemzet reported on Wednesday. The daily said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is treating the matter cautiously, as he does not want to jeopardise Hungarian-Russian relations. At the same time, unidentified sources say there is a good chance that the move ...
Hungarian Border Fence Fails To Stem Influx Of Migrants
- 17 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Defence Minister Csaba Hende and Interior Minister Sándor Pintér inspected construction of the fence near Tompa on the Serbian border on Friday. They affirmed that the barrier will be completed by August 31. Hungarian police caught more than 3,400 illegal migrants on Friday and Saturday, an indication that construction of the fence to date has not slowed the influx of refugees.
Hungarian LIGA Union Head Spent EU Funds On Luxury Hotels
- 17 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
President István Gaskó of the LIGA union alliance has stayed in the Kempinski and Hilton hotels in Budapest at EU expense, even though he is a resident of the city, Napi Gazdaság reports. On September 27, 2012 he hired room 601 at the Kempinski Hotel Corvinus and spent Ft 140,000 for the night. On February 2, 2014 he spent more than Ft 150,000 for a room at the Budapest Hilton.