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Hungarian Govt Plan To Scrap Jobless Benefits “Inhumane, Unfair”
- 18 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
- business
The government’s plan to scrap unemployment benefits in 2018 while placing the jobless into fostered job schemes is both inhumane and unfair, the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) said.
Memory Of 1989 Must Be Kept Alive, Hungary’s President Says In Sofia
- 13 Nov 2014 1:00 AM
- current affairs
Eastern Europe’s democratic transition 25 years ago and “what we sought to transcend in 1989/90” must be kept alive in the minds of our children, Hungary’s president told an international conference in Sofia.
Government To Overhaul Public Health Care In Hungary
- 17 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
“We can only guess what the government is preparing to do,” Péter Balaton, general secretary of the Association of Hungarian Hospitals and Clinics, told ATV’s Egon Ronai Tuesday morning. “We hope it will not be what happened in earlier years when they chose an industry expert as state secretary, Miklos Szocska, whose activities and cooperation with the industry was overwritten by politics. The ...
Xpat Opinion: The Hungarian Socialists At A Crossroads
- 17 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
While Fidesz and the Orbán government are busy hatching their latest plans to further restructure the Hungarian state and Hungarian society we cannot do more than wait for the day, which should come soon, when we find out what kind of austerity program will be introduced. There is no use talking about, for instance, all the leaked information from Fidesz politicians concerning the huge reforms of ...
Is There A Passport Mafia In Hungary? A 'Citizenship Dealer' Speaks Out
- 26 Sep 2014 1:00 AM
- current affairs
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén defended the Hungarian citizenship process yesterday after Index published a two-part exposé of Hungary’s “passport mafia” that appeared in the wake of Fidesz’s fast-tracked dual-citizenship law of 2010.
8th Főzdefeszt + Street Food Show @ Andrássy Út Budapest, 20 - 21 September
- 10 Sep 2014 9:04 AM
- food & drink
The festival that introduced craft-beer to Hungarians 3 years ago has grown to be the biggest gastronomical festival of Budapest with the addition of Street Food Show earlier this year. More than 40 000 people attended the festival in June, and this fall, they expect to entertain even more by joining the European In Town Without My Car (ITWMC) event, which will cause a considerable part of ...
Xpat Opinion: The Hungarian Post Office
- 12 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- shopping
‘Why don’t you write about the Post Office?’ asked a friend this week, knowing only too well my fraught relationship with that particular institution over the last thirty years. Were I writing this by hand, the tension and frustration evoked in those memories would be discernible in my manuscript.
Hungarian Natural Horsemanship Guru Says Horses Deserve Better
- 22 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- sport
“Horse whisperer” - that's the moniker used of trainers who can develop a special rapport with horses by their presence, words and body language. Gyula Mészáros doesn't use that term and yet he is Hungary's best known horse whisperer.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...
Hungarian Govt Plan To Scrap Jobless Benefits “Inhumane, Unfair”
- 18 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
- business
The government’s plan to scrap unemployment benefits in 2018 while placing the jobless into fostered job schemes is both inhumane and unfair, the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) said.
Memory Of 1989 Must Be Kept Alive, Hungary’s President Says In Sofia
- 13 Nov 2014 1:00 AM
- current affairs
Eastern Europe’s democratic transition 25 years ago and “what we sought to transcend in 1989/90” must be kept alive in the minds of our children, Hungary’s president told an international conference in Sofia.
Government To Overhaul Public Health Care In Hungary
- 17 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
“We can only guess what the government is preparing to do,” Péter Balaton, general secretary of the Association of Hungarian Hospitals and Clinics, told ATV’s Egon Ronai Tuesday morning. “We hope it will not be what happened in earlier years when they chose an industry expert as state secretary, Miklos Szocska, whose activities and cooperation with the industry was overwritten by politics. The ...
Xpat Opinion: The Hungarian Socialists At A Crossroads
- 17 Oct 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
While Fidesz and the Orbán government are busy hatching their latest plans to further restructure the Hungarian state and Hungarian society we cannot do more than wait for the day, which should come soon, when we find out what kind of austerity program will be introduced. There is no use talking about, for instance, all the leaked information from Fidesz politicians concerning the huge reforms of ...
Is There A Passport Mafia In Hungary? A 'Citizenship Dealer' Speaks Out
- 26 Sep 2014 1:00 AM
- current affairs
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén defended the Hungarian citizenship process yesterday after Index published a two-part exposé of Hungary’s “passport mafia” that appeared in the wake of Fidesz’s fast-tracked dual-citizenship law of 2010.
8th Főzdefeszt + Street Food Show @ Andrássy Út Budapest, 20 - 21 September
- 10 Sep 2014 9:04 AM
- food & drink
The festival that introduced craft-beer to Hungarians 3 years ago has grown to be the biggest gastronomical festival of Budapest with the addition of Street Food Show earlier this year. More than 40 000 people attended the festival in June, and this fall, they expect to entertain even more by joining the European In Town Without My Car (ITWMC) event, which will cause a considerable part of ...
Xpat Opinion: The Hungarian Post Office
- 12 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- shopping
‘Why don’t you write about the Post Office?’ asked a friend this week, knowing only too well my fraught relationship with that particular institution over the last thirty years. Were I writing this by hand, the tension and frustration evoked in those memories would be discernible in my manuscript.
Hungarian Natural Horsemanship Guru Says Horses Deserve Better
- 22 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- sport
“Horse whisperer” - that's the moniker used of trainers who can develop a special rapport with horses by their presence, words and body language. Gyula Mészáros doesn't use that term and yet he is Hungary's best known horse whisperer.
500 Protest Plan To Bulldoze Roma Housing Estate In Miskolc
- 20 Jul 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Around 500 people protested Miskolc city council’s plan to bulldoze a Roma housing estate to make way for a new football stadium in the north-eastern city on Wednesday. The threatened settlement consists of around a dozen streets – numbered, not named – where Roma families live in 100-year-old, two-storey houses. It skirts the main thoroughfare of Miskolc and at one end is dwarfed by the ...