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Press Release: Drugs Leave Hundreds Of Brits Behind Bars Overseas
- 25 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Hundreds of British nationals are currently locked up in prisons across the globe for drug-related offences, often detained for months without trial and facing distressing living conditions. Now the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), in conjunction with the charity Prisoners Abroad, is launching a campaign to highlight the consequences of the use, possession and smuggling of drugs in Hungary ...
Hungary's PM Orbán Sets Out Tasks In Mortgage Question
- 25 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- property
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spelled out the ways in which the supreme court should clarify questions about foreign-currency mortgages, defended the flat tax, and again attacked large multinational companies in his bi-weekly radio interview, taped in Japan on Thursday and broadcast on Friday morning.
Banks In Hungary To Pay 9.5 Billion Forint Fine For Cartel
- 21 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- business
Hungary’s Competition Authority (GVH) has imposed a 9.5 billion forint fine on 11 commercial banks for the operation of an illegal collusion (cartel) during a repayment scheme for foreign currency mortgage-holders two years ago. According to the GVH, the banks cooperated and shared confidential business information between September 2011 and January 2012 to reduce the scale of mortgage repayments.
2014 Elections To Be Held Between 6 April & 25 May, Says Hungary’s President
- 21 Nov 2013 3:00 AM
- current affairs
Under relevant laws, Hungary’s next general elections will be held between April 6 and May 25, 2014, President János Áder noted in a letter of reply to opposition Socialist leader Attila Mesterházy on Thursday, without specifying the exact date. Referring to his latest meeting with Áder, Mesterházy noted in a letter to him that the president had proposed holding consultations with the parties ...
Navracsics Looks To Resolve FX Mortgages In Hungary
- 20 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Administration and Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics met with leading judicial figures yesterday to discuss the legal uncertainty surrounding mortgages denominated in foreign currencies. The meeting was arranged after Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for a speedy decision by the Kúria, the nation’s supreme court, in the wake of conflicting lower court rulings in lawsuits brought by borrowers ...
Xpat Opinion: Getting It Wrong On Purpose: Human Rights Watch & Domestic Violence In Hungary
- 15 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Last week, Human Rights Watch published a report on domestic violence issues in Hungary and that report has received some coverage, drawing attention to an important problem. But based on the report, some media channels published articles directing criticism at how the Hungarian system fails to address the problem. They don’t have all the facts.
Hungary Continues To Step Up Against Domestic Violence
- 7 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Representatives of the Ministry of Human Resources held talks with the Human Rights Watch about the organisation's report on domestic violence in Hungary. The report subsequently acknowledges that including violence within relationships as a separate category of offence within the new Penal Code, operative as of 1 July 2013, was a necessary step and points in the right direction.
Xpat Opinion: “Unless Blood Flows”: Human Rights Watch’s Report On Hungary
- 7 Nov 2013 12:00 AM
- current affairs
Lately I have been struck by the high number of incidents, often resulting in death, involving relatives or people living in the same household. A daughter kills her mother, an 85-year-old former high-ranking police officer kills his 79-year-old wife, a professional soccer player kills his partner and her son in a family dispute. These are only three cases I remember from the last two weeks or so.
“Enterpreneurial Skill Can Be Learned” Interview With CEU Rector John Shattuck
- 31 Oct 2013 8:00 AM
- business
The President and Rector of Central European University (CEU) considers his current post the most important stage of his career. As he told us, CEU has been successful in attracting back to Budapest leading Hungarian academics who had earlier left the country to pursue their careers abroad. Interview published by Figyelő, the Hungarian business and news weekly, with a circulation of 11.200.
Press Release: Drugs Leave Hundreds Of Brits Behind Bars Overseas
- 25 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Hundreds of British nationals are currently locked up in prisons across the globe for drug-related offences, often detained for months without trial and facing distressing living conditions. Now the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), in conjunction with the charity Prisoners Abroad, is launching a campaign to highlight the consequences of the use, possession and smuggling of drugs in Hungary ...
Hungary's PM Orbán Sets Out Tasks In Mortgage Question
- 25 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- property
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spelled out the ways in which the supreme court should clarify questions about foreign-currency mortgages, defended the flat tax, and again attacked large multinational companies in his bi-weekly radio interview, taped in Japan on Thursday and broadcast on Friday morning.
Banks In Hungary To Pay 9.5 Billion Forint Fine For Cartel
- 21 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- business
Hungary’s Competition Authority (GVH) has imposed a 9.5 billion forint fine on 11 commercial banks for the operation of an illegal collusion (cartel) during a repayment scheme for foreign currency mortgage-holders two years ago. According to the GVH, the banks cooperated and shared confidential business information between September 2011 and January 2012 to reduce the scale of mortgage repayments.
2014 Elections To Be Held Between 6 April & 25 May, Says Hungary’s President
- 21 Nov 2013 3:00 AM
- current affairs
Under relevant laws, Hungary’s next general elections will be held between April 6 and May 25, 2014, President János Áder noted in a letter of reply to opposition Socialist leader Attila Mesterházy on Thursday, without specifying the exact date. Referring to his latest meeting with Áder, Mesterházy noted in a letter to him that the president had proposed holding consultations with the parties ...
Navracsics Looks To Resolve FX Mortgages In Hungary
- 20 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Administration and Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics met with leading judicial figures yesterday to discuss the legal uncertainty surrounding mortgages denominated in foreign currencies. The meeting was arranged after Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for a speedy decision by the Kúria, the nation’s supreme court, in the wake of conflicting lower court rulings in lawsuits brought by borrowers ...
Xpat Opinion: Getting It Wrong On Purpose: Human Rights Watch & Domestic Violence In Hungary
- 15 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Last week, Human Rights Watch published a report on domestic violence issues in Hungary and that report has received some coverage, drawing attention to an important problem. But based on the report, some media channels published articles directing criticism at how the Hungarian system fails to address the problem. They don’t have all the facts.
Hungary Continues To Step Up Against Domestic Violence
- 7 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Representatives of the Ministry of Human Resources held talks with the Human Rights Watch about the organisation's report on domestic violence in Hungary. The report subsequently acknowledges that including violence within relationships as a separate category of offence within the new Penal Code, operative as of 1 July 2013, was a necessary step and points in the right direction.
Xpat Opinion: “Unless Blood Flows”: Human Rights Watch’s Report On Hungary
- 7 Nov 2013 12:00 AM
- current affairs
Lately I have been struck by the high number of incidents, often resulting in death, involving relatives or people living in the same household. A daughter kills her mother, an 85-year-old former high-ranking police officer kills his 79-year-old wife, a professional soccer player kills his partner and her son in a family dispute. These are only three cases I remember from the last two weeks or so.
“Enterpreneurial Skill Can Be Learned” Interview With CEU Rector John Shattuck
- 31 Oct 2013 8:00 AM
- business
The President and Rector of Central European University (CEU) considers his current post the most important stage of his career. As he told us, CEU has been successful in attracting back to Budapest leading Hungarian academics who had earlier left the country to pursue their careers abroad. Interview published by Figyelő, the Hungarian business and news weekly, with a circulation of 11.200.