125 result(s) for lawyers
French Court Sentences Hungarian Soccer Fan To Six Months In Prison
- 23 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
One of five Hungarians detained after a Euro 2016 soccer match involving the national eleven in Marseille last weekend has been sentenced to six months in prison on a charge of violence against an official, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said. Two of the fans were detained for the possession of pyrotechnics and banned devices and another two for rowdiness, Szijjártó told a press conference held ...
LMP Threatens To File Police Report On Metro Trains
- 6 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The green opposition LMP party will file a report to police about supposedly refurbished metro trains supplied from Russia for the 3rd metro line unless the Budapest transport company proves within a week that the trains are indeed refurbished and not new units. If the undercarriages are new then the carriages should also be considered as new, LMP politician Antal Csárdi said.
Attorneys Are Being Snooped On Like It’s No One’s Business
- 22 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- business
Panic spread among Budapest lawyers last year when it was reported that law offices were being surveilled. It was not clear who was doing the snooping but the state’s security apparatus (which includes the police, Constitutional Protection Office and even Counter Terrorism Centre TEK) couldn’t be ruled out.
Fidesz Wants To Make Encryption Software Illegal
- 31 Mar 2016 9:00 AM
- tech
Fidesz wants parliament to adopt legislation that would make it illegal for Hungarians to use encryption software, reports 444.hu. Initially, there was a bit of confusion as to what the 3rd Orbán government hoped to achieve with its next modification to Hungary’s constitution, the Fundamental Law.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary’s PMO Grants Itself Unsupervised Access To Cookie Jar
- 31 Mar 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian parliament voted today to strip itself of the right to approve interim changes to the budget. Fidesz MPs successfully passed a controversial bill that modifies the budget law to allow the government to unilaterally decide how to spend state funds, reports Hungarian business news site portfolio.hu. The proposal was submitted one month ago by Minister Overseeing the Office of the ...
PM Orbán 15 March Address: Migration ‘Invasive’
- 16 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The prime minister said in his March 15 address that mass migration is presented as a humanitarian issue, but its real nature is “invasive”. Viktor Orbán said discussions on migrant relocation would begin with talks on resettling “a couple of hundred or a thousand” people but this was sure to lead to the resettlement of tens or hundreds of thousands of migrants.
UN Special Rights Rapporteur To Visit Hungary
- 8 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Michel Forst, United Nations special rapporteur, will visit Hungary next week to examine the situation regarding the protection of human rights in the country, the Hungarian office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees told the daily Népszava. Forst will gather information over nine days on the difficulties faced by civil organisations and examine how the space for democracy can be expanded, ...
Segregated Pupils Sue KLIK
- 5 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A trial began at an Eger court on Wednesday where 63 Roma from Gyöngyöspata are suing the Klebelsberg Institution Maintenance Centre (KLIK) for the state body to reimburse their disadvantage stemming from segregated education.
Mahir v. Budapest Trial Begins
- 12 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Lawyers acting for the city of Budapest were unable to say on Monday what law Mahir Cityposter had violated as the Capital Court began its trial of the dispute between the two parties over advertising columns on city streets. The basis for the city’s argument was that Mahir had not placed its advertising pillars in a proper manner and that it had violated a city decree from 2006 and 1995.
French Court Sentences Hungarian Soccer Fan To Six Months In Prison
- 23 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
One of five Hungarians detained after a Euro 2016 soccer match involving the national eleven in Marseille last weekend has been sentenced to six months in prison on a charge of violence against an official, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said. Two of the fans were detained for the possession of pyrotechnics and banned devices and another two for rowdiness, Szijjártó told a press conference held ...
LMP Threatens To File Police Report On Metro Trains
- 6 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The green opposition LMP party will file a report to police about supposedly refurbished metro trains supplied from Russia for the 3rd metro line unless the Budapest transport company proves within a week that the trains are indeed refurbished and not new units. If the undercarriages are new then the carriages should also be considered as new, LMP politician Antal Csárdi said.
Attorneys Are Being Snooped On Like It’s No One’s Business
- 22 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- business
Panic spread among Budapest lawyers last year when it was reported that law offices were being surveilled. It was not clear who was doing the snooping but the state’s security apparatus (which includes the police, Constitutional Protection Office and even Counter Terrorism Centre TEK) couldn’t be ruled out.
Fidesz Wants To Make Encryption Software Illegal
- 31 Mar 2016 9:00 AM
- tech
Fidesz wants parliament to adopt legislation that would make it illegal for Hungarians to use encryption software, reports 444.hu. Initially, there was a bit of confusion as to what the 3rd Orbán government hoped to achieve with its next modification to Hungary’s constitution, the Fundamental Law.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary’s PMO Grants Itself Unsupervised Access To Cookie Jar
- 31 Mar 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian parliament voted today to strip itself of the right to approve interim changes to the budget. Fidesz MPs successfully passed a controversial bill that modifies the budget law to allow the government to unilaterally decide how to spend state funds, reports Hungarian business news site portfolio.hu. The proposal was submitted one month ago by Minister Overseeing the Office of the ...
PM Orbán 15 March Address: Migration ‘Invasive’
- 16 Mar 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The prime minister said in his March 15 address that mass migration is presented as a humanitarian issue, but its real nature is “invasive”. Viktor Orbán said discussions on migrant relocation would begin with talks on resettling “a couple of hundred or a thousand” people but this was sure to lead to the resettlement of tens or hundreds of thousands of migrants.
UN Special Rights Rapporteur To Visit Hungary
- 8 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Michel Forst, United Nations special rapporteur, will visit Hungary next week to examine the situation regarding the protection of human rights in the country, the Hungarian office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees told the daily Népszava. Forst will gather information over nine days on the difficulties faced by civil organisations and examine how the space for democracy can be expanded, ...
Segregated Pupils Sue KLIK
- 5 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A trial began at an Eger court on Wednesday where 63 Roma from Gyöngyöspata are suing the Klebelsberg Institution Maintenance Centre (KLIK) for the state body to reimburse their disadvantage stemming from segregated education.
Mahir v. Budapest Trial Begins
- 12 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Lawyers acting for the city of Budapest were unable to say on Monday what law Mahir Cityposter had violated as the Capital Court began its trial of the dispute between the two parties over advertising columns on city streets. The basis for the city’s argument was that Mahir had not placed its advertising pillars in a proper manner and that it had violated a city decree from 2006 and 1995.