607 result(s) for local election
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's Socialist Party's Vice Chairman’s Undeclared Assets Case Still In Focus
- 17 Feb 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A business weekly suggests that the mishandling of public funds in the 18th district of Budapest (in the pre-2010 period) must have given ample opportunity for Socialist luminaries to enrich themselves. A liberal commentator thinks that accusing Fidesz of having an even bigger appetite since then is no answer to the present case in which a leading Socialist politician was caught red handed.
Paks Nuclear Power Plant: German Industrialist Mediates Between Putin And Hungary’s PM Orbán
- 22 Jan 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Staffers of Rosatom visited Budapest day by day; Orbán and Lázár held talks with the EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger, Orbán had consultations with Barroso, the Rothschild Group and Hengeler Mueller German law firm intervened to have Brussels’ fiat for an arrangement in which competitive bids were not invited. Lázár headed a governmental task force to pull off this hush-hush project – ...
Registration Open For EU Citizens To Vote At EP Election In Hungary
- 6 Jan 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
European Union citizens living in Hungary can already declare whether or not they will vote here or in their home country in the European parliamentary elections scheduled for May 22-25.
Hungary's Ruling Party Fidesz Uses Rate Cuts To Start Recruitment Drive
- 6 Jan 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Fidesz is sending a letter to the 2.2 million people who signed its petition in favour of lower utility prices last year, asking them to take part in the party’s election campaign. In the letter, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán calls on the addressee to join a “Hungarian Team” soon to be created to protect the government-imposed cuts in household gas and electricity prices, saying these are under ...
Hungary’s Socialists Call On Fidesz To Stop Offering Treats To Associates
- 19 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- business
The opposition Socialists called on János Lázár, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, to stop treating Fidesz affiliated businesses preferentially in state tenders and to allow “respectable families to earn a living”.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary’s PM Just Announced His Government’s Motto: Glory To God Alone
- 18 Nov 2013 12:00 AM
- current affairs
We all know about Viktor Orbán’s infatuation with the spiritual in the last few years. Maybe I just don’t remember properly, but I can’t recall much piety in his speeches during his first premiership between 1998 and 2002. Today, by contrast, his speeches are teeming with Biblical quotations and Latin religious phrases. And his generosity toward the “established” churches, especially the Catholic ...
Xpat Opinion: Mutual Recriminations Around Baja Video In Hungary
- 22 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A liberal columnist suggests that if Fidesz wins the 2014 Parliamentary elections, its victory cannot be seen as legitimate. A pro-government commentator compares the Socialists to the former Communist Party for staging a video in order to accuse the governing party of electoral fraud.
Baja Video Was Staged, Hungarian Police Confirm
- 22 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Police yesterday dismissed the trustworthiness of the leaked recording suggesting that Fidesz committed electoral fraud at the recent Baja local by-election. The mobile phone footage was shot on October 15, after the by-election, and was completely staged, they explained.
Prime Minister Attended The Hungary-India Business Forum In Mumbai
- 21 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- business
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, currently on an official visit to India, opened trading at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) at 9:15 am local time, on Friday.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's Socialist Party's Vice Chairman’s Undeclared Assets Case Still In Focus
- 17 Feb 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A business weekly suggests that the mishandling of public funds in the 18th district of Budapest (in the pre-2010 period) must have given ample opportunity for Socialist luminaries to enrich themselves. A liberal commentator thinks that accusing Fidesz of having an even bigger appetite since then is no answer to the present case in which a leading Socialist politician was caught red handed.
Paks Nuclear Power Plant: German Industrialist Mediates Between Putin And Hungary’s PM Orbán
- 22 Jan 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Staffers of Rosatom visited Budapest day by day; Orbán and Lázár held talks with the EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger, Orbán had consultations with Barroso, the Rothschild Group and Hengeler Mueller German law firm intervened to have Brussels’ fiat for an arrangement in which competitive bids were not invited. Lázár headed a governmental task force to pull off this hush-hush project – ...
Registration Open For EU Citizens To Vote At EP Election In Hungary
- 6 Jan 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
European Union citizens living in Hungary can already declare whether or not they will vote here or in their home country in the European parliamentary elections scheduled for May 22-25.
Hungary's Ruling Party Fidesz Uses Rate Cuts To Start Recruitment Drive
- 6 Jan 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Fidesz is sending a letter to the 2.2 million people who signed its petition in favour of lower utility prices last year, asking them to take part in the party’s election campaign. In the letter, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán calls on the addressee to join a “Hungarian Team” soon to be created to protect the government-imposed cuts in household gas and electricity prices, saying these are under ...
Hungary’s Socialists Call On Fidesz To Stop Offering Treats To Associates
- 19 Dec 2013 8:00 AM
- business
The opposition Socialists called on János Lázár, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, to stop treating Fidesz affiliated businesses preferentially in state tenders and to allow “respectable families to earn a living”.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary’s PM Just Announced His Government’s Motto: Glory To God Alone
- 18 Nov 2013 12:00 AM
- current affairs
We all know about Viktor Orbán’s infatuation with the spiritual in the last few years. Maybe I just don’t remember properly, but I can’t recall much piety in his speeches during his first premiership between 1998 and 2002. Today, by contrast, his speeches are teeming with Biblical quotations and Latin religious phrases. And his generosity toward the “established” churches, especially the Catholic ...
Xpat Opinion: Mutual Recriminations Around Baja Video In Hungary
- 22 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A liberal columnist suggests that if Fidesz wins the 2014 Parliamentary elections, its victory cannot be seen as legitimate. A pro-government commentator compares the Socialists to the former Communist Party for staging a video in order to accuse the governing party of electoral fraud.
Baja Video Was Staged, Hungarian Police Confirm
- 22 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Police yesterday dismissed the trustworthiness of the leaked recording suggesting that Fidesz committed electoral fraud at the recent Baja local by-election. The mobile phone footage was shot on October 15, after the by-election, and was completely staged, they explained.
Prime Minister Attended The Hungary-India Business Forum In Mumbai
- 21 Oct 2013 9:00 AM
- business
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, currently on an official visit to India, opened trading at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) at 9:15 am local time, on Friday.