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Hungarian Court Acquits All Suspects In Red Sludge Spill Case
- 30 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
All 15 suspects in connection with Hungary’s 2010 red sludge disaster were acquitted by a local court in Veszprem in a non-binding ruling. The court acquitted the defendants of charges of carelessness and causing a public hazard, harming the environment and violating rules of waste management. The court also established that the toxic spill had been caused by a “loss of stability” in the soil ...
Simicskó Rejects Opposition Charge Of Govt Overreach On Terror Laws
- 30 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
On the subject of the government’s plans to include a “state of terrorist threat” provision in the constitution, István Simicsko, the defence minister, said the government had called for consultations with the opposition, but the Socialists “sadly” had not attended. He said of the opposition proposals on the table, the Socialists’ proposal is only a working draft.
Hungarian Socialists: Fidesz Using ‘Show Trials’ To Increase Popularity
- 29 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Socialist Party on Thursday said the ruling Fidesz party is organising “show trials” reminiscent of methods used in Hungary’s “darkest dictatorship” to increase its popularity. Gergely Bárándy, the Socialist deputy head of parliament’s legislative committee, told a press conference that the embezzlement trial of Miklós Hagyó, in which the former Socialist deputy mayor of Budapest was given ...
Hungarian Socialists Overtake Jobbik Among All Voters
- 28 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Socialist Party has made up ground and overtaken the radical nationalist Jobbik party in terms of overall support, albeit the party’s lead is within the margin of error in a new poll by the Nézőpont Institute. The ruling Fidesz-Christian-Democrat alliance has maintained its lead among Nézőpont’s entire sample, capturing 32%.
Tóbiás Insists Hungarian Socialists Poised As 2018 ‘Party Of Change’
- 28 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The leader of the Socialist opposition party, József Tóbiás, told the daily Magyar Idők that his party is poised to be the “party of change” in the next general election held in two years’ time. He said the result of the latest election, a local by-election held in Szolnok, showed that it is the Socialists rather than radical nationalist Jobbik that will provide the alternative to the ruling ...
Gulyás Disowns Hungarian Pro-Fidesz Website
- 26 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Fidesz MP Gergely Gulyás distanced the party from 888.hu after the website published nude photos of Tímea Rába, the wife of Socialist president József Tóbiás, from her days as a beauty queen in the 1990s. “We should make it clear in the spirit of conservative values that people of good taste cannot have anything to do with 888.hu,” Gulyás said in a statement as he expressed solidarity with Tóbiás ...
Hungarian Socialists Call For Boycott Against News Portal
- 26 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Socialist Party has called on the government to cancel all advertising agreements with online news portal 888.hu over an article the website published on Socialist leader József Tóbiás’s wife and daughter on Saturday.
LMP Urges Opposition To Coordinate On Hungarian Govt Terror Threat Measures
- 26 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The opposition LMP party has invited the opposition Socialists and the radical nationalist Jobbik party to talks regarding the government’s proposal to modify the constitution to allow special measures in case of a terrorism threat in the country.
Hungarian Socialists Propose Alternative Method For Managing Threat Of Terrorism
- 25 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Socialist Party has proposed its own solution for managing terrorist threats under which the government would have no more than eight days to impose special measures without parliament’s approval, but would need the backing of two-thirds of lawmakers to implement further measures once the eight-day period is up.
Hungarian Court Acquits All Suspects In Red Sludge Spill Case
- 30 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
All 15 suspects in connection with Hungary’s 2010 red sludge disaster were acquitted by a local court in Veszprem in a non-binding ruling. The court acquitted the defendants of charges of carelessness and causing a public hazard, harming the environment and violating rules of waste management. The court also established that the toxic spill had been caused by a “loss of stability” in the soil ...
Simicskó Rejects Opposition Charge Of Govt Overreach On Terror Laws
- 30 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
On the subject of the government’s plans to include a “state of terrorist threat” provision in the constitution, István Simicsko, the defence minister, said the government had called for consultations with the opposition, but the Socialists “sadly” had not attended. He said of the opposition proposals on the table, the Socialists’ proposal is only a working draft.
Hungarian Socialists: Fidesz Using ‘Show Trials’ To Increase Popularity
- 29 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Socialist Party on Thursday said the ruling Fidesz party is organising “show trials” reminiscent of methods used in Hungary’s “darkest dictatorship” to increase its popularity. Gergely Bárándy, the Socialist deputy head of parliament’s legislative committee, told a press conference that the embezzlement trial of Miklós Hagyó, in which the former Socialist deputy mayor of Budapest was given ...
Hungarian Socialists Overtake Jobbik Among All Voters
- 28 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Socialist Party has made up ground and overtaken the radical nationalist Jobbik party in terms of overall support, albeit the party’s lead is within the margin of error in a new poll by the Nézőpont Institute. The ruling Fidesz-Christian-Democrat alliance has maintained its lead among Nézőpont’s entire sample, capturing 32%.
Tóbiás Insists Hungarian Socialists Poised As 2018 ‘Party Of Change’
- 28 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The leader of the Socialist opposition party, József Tóbiás, told the daily Magyar Idők that his party is poised to be the “party of change” in the next general election held in two years’ time. He said the result of the latest election, a local by-election held in Szolnok, showed that it is the Socialists rather than radical nationalist Jobbik that will provide the alternative to the ruling ...
Gulyás Disowns Hungarian Pro-Fidesz Website
- 26 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Fidesz MP Gergely Gulyás distanced the party from 888.hu after the website published nude photos of Tímea Rába, the wife of Socialist president József Tóbiás, from her days as a beauty queen in the 1990s. “We should make it clear in the spirit of conservative values that people of good taste cannot have anything to do with 888.hu,” Gulyás said in a statement as he expressed solidarity with Tóbiás ...
Hungarian Socialists Call For Boycott Against News Portal
- 26 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Socialist Party has called on the government to cancel all advertising agreements with online news portal 888.hu over an article the website published on Socialist leader József Tóbiás’s wife and daughter on Saturday.
LMP Urges Opposition To Coordinate On Hungarian Govt Terror Threat Measures
- 26 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The opposition LMP party has invited the opposition Socialists and the radical nationalist Jobbik party to talks regarding the government’s proposal to modify the constitution to allow special measures in case of a terrorism threat in the country.
Hungarian Socialists Propose Alternative Method For Managing Threat Of Terrorism
- 25 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The Socialist Party has proposed its own solution for managing terrorist threats under which the government would have no more than eight days to impose special measures without parliament’s approval, but would need the backing of two-thirds of lawmakers to implement further measures once the eight-day period is up.