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Updated: Budapest Taxi Drivers Stage Demo Against Uber
- 19 Jan 2016 8:02 AM
- getting around
Taxi drivers demonstrating against car dispatcher Uber in central Budapest closed a section of Andrássy Avenue and Bajcsy Zsilinszky Road, on Monday. The protesters completely blocked traffic in both directions of the two major routes but reopened one lane in each direction after the Budapest police warned them that a complete blockade was illegal.
Smart Business Schools Promise Competitive Revitalization
- 19 Jan 2016 8:02 AM
- business
This is the first column in a series of contributions from professors and other experts at the Central European University Business School.
Hungary Puts Forward Reasons For Objection To Mandatory Quotas
- 7 Dec 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary has put forward ten reasons for the abolishment of migrant resettlement quotas, the justice minister said. László Trócsányi noted that Hungary had submitted its objections to the EU quotas at the European Court on Thursday. He noted that parliament had approved a law obliging Hungary to take action against the quota system. In a 25- page document, the justice ministry advanced ten ...
Hungary’s Top Soldier Sees Indirect Connection Between Migration And Terrorism
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Following the Paris terror attack, the Hungarian Defense Force introduced serious measures to protect its bases and foreign missions as well. Meanwhile, military policemen have started patrolling Budapest’s main transportation hubs.
Együtt Refiles Report To Police On 2013 Sale Of Hungarian TV2
- 22 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The opposition Együtt party’s leader, Viktor Szigetvári, said he is refiling a report to the police concerning the 2013 sale of Hungary’s second largest commercial channel, TV2, by ProSiebenSat.1 to the channel’s managing director, Zsolt Simon, and its finance manager, Yvonne Dederick. According to Együtt’s report first submitted in January 2014—rejected by police at the time - the legal ...
US Freedom Of Religion Report Gives Mixed Assessment Of Hungary
- 15 Oct 2015 4:30 AM
- current affairs
The US Department of State’s latest report on religious freedom issued on Wednesday established that Hungary’s constitution guaranteed the freedom of religion. The report, however, made critical remarks on the deregistration of religious groups and other issues. It said that the constitution provides for freedom of religion, separates church and state, and stipulates that religious communities ...
Former Hungarian Communist Party Official Biszku Pleads Innocent In New Trial
- 5 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Béla Biszku, the interior minister in 1956, pleaded innocent to charges of war crimes when a new trial began on Friday. Biszku is accused of abetting the shooting of protesters by state security officials at Nyugati tér and in Salgótarján in December 1956, as well as failing to investigate a raid in 1957 and denying Communist crimes.
Xpat Opinion: Migrants Streaming In Hungary Again From Croatia
- 21 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Since Hungary closed its border with Serbia last week, migrants are being bused by Serbia to the Croatian border and from there by Croatia to Slovenia and to Hungary. While the Hungarian authorities are building a border fence along the border with Croatia to stop the inflow, commentators discuss to what extent the attitude of the Hungarian government is morally and legally justified.
Hungary’s Border Closure „Only Effective Solution”
- 18 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
While Europe can debate the way in which Hungary chose to seal off its border, it was the “only effective solution” for protecting the border amid “all the European blah blah”, government office head János Lázár said. He said that if migrants would begin to enter Hungary through either Croatia or Romania, the government will seal those borders as well. Lázár said the border fence has already been ...
Updated: Budapest Taxi Drivers Stage Demo Against Uber
- 19 Jan 2016 8:02 AM
- getting around
Taxi drivers demonstrating against car dispatcher Uber in central Budapest closed a section of Andrássy Avenue and Bajcsy Zsilinszky Road, on Monday. The protesters completely blocked traffic in both directions of the two major routes but reopened one lane in each direction after the Budapest police warned them that a complete blockade was illegal.
Smart Business Schools Promise Competitive Revitalization
- 19 Jan 2016 8:02 AM
- business
This is the first column in a series of contributions from professors and other experts at the Central European University Business School.
Hungary Puts Forward Reasons For Objection To Mandatory Quotas
- 7 Dec 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary has put forward ten reasons for the abolishment of migrant resettlement quotas, the justice minister said. László Trócsányi noted that Hungary had submitted its objections to the EU quotas at the European Court on Thursday. He noted that parliament had approved a law obliging Hungary to take action against the quota system. In a 25- page document, the justice ministry advanced ten ...
Hungary’s Top Soldier Sees Indirect Connection Between Migration And Terrorism
- 23 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Following the Paris terror attack, the Hungarian Defense Force introduced serious measures to protect its bases and foreign missions as well. Meanwhile, military policemen have started patrolling Budapest’s main transportation hubs.
Együtt Refiles Report To Police On 2013 Sale Of Hungarian TV2
- 22 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The opposition Együtt party’s leader, Viktor Szigetvári, said he is refiling a report to the police concerning the 2013 sale of Hungary’s second largest commercial channel, TV2, by ProSiebenSat.1 to the channel’s managing director, Zsolt Simon, and its finance manager, Yvonne Dederick. According to Együtt’s report first submitted in January 2014—rejected by police at the time - the legal ...
US Freedom Of Religion Report Gives Mixed Assessment Of Hungary
- 15 Oct 2015 4:30 AM
- current affairs
The US Department of State’s latest report on religious freedom issued on Wednesday established that Hungary’s constitution guaranteed the freedom of religion. The report, however, made critical remarks on the deregistration of religious groups and other issues. It said that the constitution provides for freedom of religion, separates church and state, and stipulates that religious communities ...
Former Hungarian Communist Party Official Biszku Pleads Innocent In New Trial
- 5 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Béla Biszku, the interior minister in 1956, pleaded innocent to charges of war crimes when a new trial began on Friday. Biszku is accused of abetting the shooting of protesters by state security officials at Nyugati tér and in Salgótarján in December 1956, as well as failing to investigate a raid in 1957 and denying Communist crimes.
Xpat Opinion: Migrants Streaming In Hungary Again From Croatia
- 21 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Since Hungary closed its border with Serbia last week, migrants are being bused by Serbia to the Croatian border and from there by Croatia to Slovenia and to Hungary. While the Hungarian authorities are building a border fence along the border with Croatia to stop the inflow, commentators discuss to what extent the attitude of the Hungarian government is morally and legally justified.
Hungary’s Border Closure „Only Effective Solution”
- 18 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
While Europe can debate the way in which Hungary chose to seal off its border, it was the “only effective solution” for protecting the border amid “all the European blah blah”, government office head János Lázár said. He said that if migrants would begin to enter Hungary through either Croatia or Romania, the government will seal those borders as well. Lázár said the border fence has already been ...