493 result(s) for monument
Xpat Opinion: American Embassy In Budapest On The Nazi Occupation Memorial
- 28 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A leftist daily describes a statement issued by the US Embassy as another clear warning to the government, while its right-wing counterpart finds it strange that the US Embassy takes a view of a Hungarian issue.
21st International Book Festival Budapest, Millenáris, 24-27 April 2014
- 25 Apr 2014 9:02 AM
- community & culture
On Thursday, 24 April – right between the World Book and Copyright Day on Saint George's Day, 23 April and the World Intellectual Property Day on 25 April –, by evoking the old Catalonian custom of exchanging a gift of flowers and books, Dr Tibor Navracsics, Minister of Public Administration and Justice and deputy prime minister, accompanied by Dr Miklós Bendzsel, president of the Hungarian ...
Xpat Opinion: Week-Long Demonstration In Budapest Was Not In Vain
- 24 Apr 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Many people labeled the dogged effort of a small group of protesters against the erection of the proposed monument to the victims of the German “occupation” of Hungary a waste of time and energy. What will they achieve? Nothing. They dismantled the barricade around the proposed site ten or eleven times, but work on the foundation for the monument continued unabated. The monument showing ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's Left Stands Accused Of Radicalism
- 23 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A pro-government columnist thinks the Left hasn’t learned the lesson of the elections and sticks to the radical language which, he suggests, caused its crushing defeat on April 6th. He predicts that these tactics will further weaken the left-wing opposition.
DK Official Calls For Resistance Against WWII Monument In Budapest
- 22 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The leftist opposition has called for resistance against the monument to the victims of the 1944 German occupation being built on Szabadság Square. Tamás Bauer, deputy leader of the Democratic Coalition (DK), told a group of demonstrators at the square on Friday that it was “essential to demonstrate resistance” against “this terrible regime”, which is “oppressive and economically incompetent.”
Hungarians Must Confront Past Tragedies, Current Threats, Says Mesterházy
- 17 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
All Hungarians must sincerely confront the tragedies of the past and the threats of today, opposition Socialist leader Attila Mesterházy said in a statement, to mark the memorial day to Hungary’s Holocaust victims.
MR Symphonics, National Concert Hall Budapest, 15 April
- 14 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The worlds of gods and men are separated by a vast chasm. This was an idea that fascinated Goethe, Wagner and Hölderlin. The latter was particularly pessimistic about man’s role: to him, fate was nothing more than ceaseless drifting, a blind struggle. Brahms encountered Hölderlin’s poem Hyperions Schicksalslied (Hyperion’s Song of Fate) in his mid thirties, immediately recognising the potential ...
Hungarian Government Green-Lights Contraversial Memorial To “Victims Of German Invasion”
- 11 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Protesters in Budapest demolish scaffolds in protest of prime minister Viktor Orban’s decision to proceed with construction of controversial memorial to victims of 1994 German invasion of Hungary.
Xpat Opinion: The Political Bickering Has Begun In Hungary
- 10 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The disappointment among sympathizers of the democratic opposition forces is indescribable. But reasonable barometers of the mood in this circle are the call-in shows on Klubrádió and ATV, which by now are the only opposition electronic media in Hungary.
Xpat Opinion: American Embassy In Budapest On The Nazi Occupation Memorial
- 28 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A leftist daily describes a statement issued by the US Embassy as another clear warning to the government, while its right-wing counterpart finds it strange that the US Embassy takes a view of a Hungarian issue.
21st International Book Festival Budapest, Millenáris, 24-27 April 2014
- 25 Apr 2014 9:02 AM
- community & culture
On Thursday, 24 April – right between the World Book and Copyright Day on Saint George's Day, 23 April and the World Intellectual Property Day on 25 April –, by evoking the old Catalonian custom of exchanging a gift of flowers and books, Dr Tibor Navracsics, Minister of Public Administration and Justice and deputy prime minister, accompanied by Dr Miklós Bendzsel, president of the Hungarian ...
Xpat Opinion: Week-Long Demonstration In Budapest Was Not In Vain
- 24 Apr 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Many people labeled the dogged effort of a small group of protesters against the erection of the proposed monument to the victims of the German “occupation” of Hungary a waste of time and energy. What will they achieve? Nothing. They dismantled the barricade around the proposed site ten or eleven times, but work on the foundation for the monument continued unabated. The monument showing ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's Left Stands Accused Of Radicalism
- 23 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A pro-government columnist thinks the Left hasn’t learned the lesson of the elections and sticks to the radical language which, he suggests, caused its crushing defeat on April 6th. He predicts that these tactics will further weaken the left-wing opposition.
DK Official Calls For Resistance Against WWII Monument In Budapest
- 22 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The leftist opposition has called for resistance against the monument to the victims of the 1944 German occupation being built on Szabadság Square. Tamás Bauer, deputy leader of the Democratic Coalition (DK), told a group of demonstrators at the square on Friday that it was “essential to demonstrate resistance” against “this terrible regime”, which is “oppressive and economically incompetent.”
Hungarians Must Confront Past Tragedies, Current Threats, Says Mesterházy
- 17 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
All Hungarians must sincerely confront the tragedies of the past and the threats of today, opposition Socialist leader Attila Mesterházy said in a statement, to mark the memorial day to Hungary’s Holocaust victims.
MR Symphonics, National Concert Hall Budapest, 15 April
- 14 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The worlds of gods and men are separated by a vast chasm. This was an idea that fascinated Goethe, Wagner and Hölderlin. The latter was particularly pessimistic about man’s role: to him, fate was nothing more than ceaseless drifting, a blind struggle. Brahms encountered Hölderlin’s poem Hyperions Schicksalslied (Hyperion’s Song of Fate) in his mid thirties, immediately recognising the potential ...
Hungarian Government Green-Lights Contraversial Memorial To “Victims Of German Invasion”
- 11 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Protesters in Budapest demolish scaffolds in protest of prime minister Viktor Orban’s decision to proceed with construction of controversial memorial to victims of 1994 German invasion of Hungary.
Xpat Opinion: The Political Bickering Has Begun In Hungary
- 10 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The disappointment among sympathizers of the democratic opposition forces is indescribable. But reasonable barometers of the mood in this circle are the call-in shows on Klubrádió and ATV, which by now are the only opposition electronic media in Hungary.