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Referendum On Budapest2024 – Budapest’s Chances For Hosting Olympics Down
- 20 Feb 2017 7:00 AM
- sport
The petition for a local referendum about Budapest to withdraw its bid for hosting the Summer Olympics in 2024 has significantly deteriorated Hungary’s chances in the competition to become a host city, the non-profit company that drafted the bid said on Saturday.
Opinion: The Hungarian Opposition Shows Signs Of Life
- 20 Feb 2017 7:00 AM
- current affairs
Momentum’s victory
The major news of the day is the overwhelming success of Momentum’s signature drive for a referendum on holding the 2024 Olympic Games in Budapest. They needed 138,000 signatures; they collected 266,151. Although the young leaders of the movement don’t seem to be overly grateful, about 60,000 of these signatures were collected by political parties on the left. LMP and ...
The major news of the day is the overwhelming success of Momentum’s signature drive for a referendum on holding the 2024 Olympic Games in Budapest. They needed 138,000 signatures; they collected 266,151. Although the young leaders of the movement don’t seem to be overly grateful, about 60,000 of these signatures were collected by political parties on the left. LMP and ...
Comments On Olympic Referendum Initiative
- 20 Feb 2017 6:00 AM
- current affairs
Zsolt Borkai, head of the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB), said that the opposition parties had weakened the capital’s chances of staging the 2024 Games. It is now up to the municipal council to decide whether Budapest intends to stay in the running to host the event, he said.
Veggie Prices Skyrocket With Extreme Cold
- 14 Feb 2017 6:30 AM
- shopping
The prices of vegetables sold in Hungary have risen sharply, in some cases threefold, due to the extreme cold weather, compared to the same period a year earlier, according to reports.
Tárki: Xenophobia At All-Time High In Hungary
- 9 Feb 2017 9:40 AM
- current affairs
Xenophobia has reached an all-time high in Hungary, while the percentage of Hungarians expressing openness towards foreigners is approaching zero, a Tárki poll reveals. The majority of Hungarians openly reject all asylum seekers and barely more than a third of them would be ready to consider such requests. Tárki has surveyed Hungarian opinion about foreigners for 25 years.
Obelisk Commemorating Political Prisoners Deported To Soviet Union Ready By Year-End
- 8 Feb 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Plans are to erect by the end of November an obelisk in memory of political prisoners deported to the Soviet Union. The site will be Oktober 6 Street in Budapest’s fifth district, the daily Magyar Idők reported on Tuesday.
Index.hu: We Are Not Paid Agents Of Russia, We Do It Out Of Conviction
- 6 Feb 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
We have found a Jobbik activist, a young communist, a Russian convicted of vandalism and a neo-Nazi among the anonymous editors of one of the best known Russian propaganda pages of Facebook, which is proof that Moscow has assistants on both the far-right and the far-left. What’s more, their reach extends even higher: one active proponents of the cause had been a diplomat at the Foreign Ministry ...
Former PM Gyurcsány: Democratic Coalition Ready For Government
- 6 Feb 2017 6:30 AM
- current affairs
The leftist Democratic Coalition (DK) is ready to govern the country “in integrity and honesty, on behalf of the majority and authorised by that majority,” party leader Ferenc Gyurcsány said in a state-of-the-nation address. At a party rally, Gyurcsány told his supporters that DK was ready to “defeat evil and reclaim Hungary from Fidesz and return it to the Hungarian nation”.
Survey: Hungarians’ On World’s Top Political Leaders
- 2 Feb 2017 12:40 AM
- current affairs
This survey gauged Hungarians’ opinion about the world’s top three political leaders. Most popular among them was Putin, favoured by 35 percent of respondents, compared with 44 percent rejecting him. Trump came in second, with 27 percent seeing him in a positive light and 38 percent viewing him unfavourably. Least popular was Merkel, with only 26 percent viewing her favourably.
Referendum On Budapest2024 – Budapest’s Chances For Hosting Olympics Down
- 20 Feb 2017 7:00 AM
- sport
The petition for a local referendum about Budapest to withdraw its bid for hosting the Summer Olympics in 2024 has significantly deteriorated Hungary’s chances in the competition to become a host city, the non-profit company that drafted the bid said on Saturday.
Opinion: The Hungarian Opposition Shows Signs Of Life
- 20 Feb 2017 7:00 AM
- current affairs
Momentum’s victory
The major news of the day is the overwhelming success of Momentum’s signature drive for a referendum on holding the 2024 Olympic Games in Budapest. They needed 138,000 signatures; they collected 266,151. Although the young leaders of the movement don’t seem to be overly grateful, about 60,000 of these signatures were collected by political parties on the left. LMP and ...
The major news of the day is the overwhelming success of Momentum’s signature drive for a referendum on holding the 2024 Olympic Games in Budapest. They needed 138,000 signatures; they collected 266,151. Although the young leaders of the movement don’t seem to be overly grateful, about 60,000 of these signatures were collected by political parties on the left. LMP and ...
Comments On Olympic Referendum Initiative
- 20 Feb 2017 6:00 AM
- current affairs
Zsolt Borkai, head of the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB), said that the opposition parties had weakened the capital’s chances of staging the 2024 Games. It is now up to the municipal council to decide whether Budapest intends to stay in the running to host the event, he said.
Veggie Prices Skyrocket With Extreme Cold
- 14 Feb 2017 6:30 AM
- shopping
The prices of vegetables sold in Hungary have risen sharply, in some cases threefold, due to the extreme cold weather, compared to the same period a year earlier, according to reports.
Tárki: Xenophobia At All-Time High In Hungary
- 9 Feb 2017 9:40 AM
- current affairs
Xenophobia has reached an all-time high in Hungary, while the percentage of Hungarians expressing openness towards foreigners is approaching zero, a Tárki poll reveals. The majority of Hungarians openly reject all asylum seekers and barely more than a third of them would be ready to consider such requests. Tárki has surveyed Hungarian opinion about foreigners for 25 years.
Obelisk Commemorating Political Prisoners Deported To Soviet Union Ready By Year-End
- 8 Feb 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Plans are to erect by the end of November an obelisk in memory of political prisoners deported to the Soviet Union. The site will be Oktober 6 Street in Budapest’s fifth district, the daily Magyar Idők reported on Tuesday.
Index.hu: We Are Not Paid Agents Of Russia, We Do It Out Of Conviction
- 6 Feb 2017 8:00 AM
- current affairs
We have found a Jobbik activist, a young communist, a Russian convicted of vandalism and a neo-Nazi among the anonymous editors of one of the best known Russian propaganda pages of Facebook, which is proof that Moscow has assistants on both the far-right and the far-left. What’s more, their reach extends even higher: one active proponents of the cause had been a diplomat at the Foreign Ministry ...
Former PM Gyurcsány: Democratic Coalition Ready For Government
- 6 Feb 2017 6:30 AM
- current affairs
The leftist Democratic Coalition (DK) is ready to govern the country “in integrity and honesty, on behalf of the majority and authorised by that majority,” party leader Ferenc Gyurcsány said in a state-of-the-nation address. At a party rally, Gyurcsány told his supporters that DK was ready to “defeat evil and reclaim Hungary from Fidesz and return it to the Hungarian nation”.
Survey: Hungarians’ On World’s Top Political Leaders
- 2 Feb 2017 12:40 AM
- current affairs
This survey gauged Hungarians’ opinion about the world’s top three political leaders. Most popular among them was Putin, favoured by 35 percent of respondents, compared with 44 percent rejecting him. Trump came in second, with 27 percent seeing him in a positive light and 38 percent viewing him unfavourably. Least popular was Merkel, with only 26 percent viewing her favourably.